Interesting destination
U Minh Thuong National Park, located in U Minh Thuong commune, is about 50km from Rach Gia. According to Ms. Tran Thi Bao Tran, living in Can Tho city, the first impression when coming to U Minh Thuong National Park is the entrance road with two rows of shady trees, in the distance are groups of monkeys climbing, sometimes coming out to the road to call the group as if welcoming visitors to visit.
Coming here, visitors can freely explore the Hoa Mai Lake area, enjoy the wild natural scenery with the swamp in the form of a 5-petal flower, the surface is covered with ferns like a long carpet. Next, visitors can take a sampan through the canals deep in the ecological reserve, enjoying the masterpiece bestowed by nature. With the characteristic of a swamp forest on peat soil, the water color of the canals in the forest has a rare red-green color. Sitting on the sampan, visitors can admire the green cajuput forest on both sides of the bank, the dense water hyacinth bushes floating along the water, and flocks of birds flying overhead. After that, visitors stop at Trang Chim with countless species of birds, all colors, then go through a bamboo monkey bridge more than 100m long into the middle of the forest and up to the observation tower. From here, you can look far away to see flocks of birds flying in the sky or perching on the nearby cajuput trees. During the journey to explore U Minh Thuong National Park, visitors can go up to Vong Lam Dai to see the whole world biosphere reserve from above; visit the wildlife rescue and care area located behind the administrative area - this is the place to rescue, care for, and educate injured and illicit hunted individuals, then release them back to nature.
A corner of U Minh Thuong National Park
According to Ms. Truong Be Diem, a tour guide for U Minh Thuong National Park, in addition to the service of visiting the U Minh Thuong cajuput forest, visitors can fish for snakehead fish and watch water fern. Mr. Nguyen Van Giang, a tourist from Tay Ninh, said: "I heard that U Minh Thuong has a lot of freshwater fish, so my friends and I came here to experience it. The snakehead fish here are very big, I caught a snakehead fish weighing 4 - 5kg. If you want to catch a big snakehead fish, you have to go deep into the forest, there are many people outside fishing, so there are few fish."
Delicious specialties
Coming to U Minh Thuong National Park, if you miss the opportunity to enjoy the rustic, delicious and flavorful dishes of the West, it will be a regret after the journey to explore the wild nature here. In the cool space of the forest, there is nothing more wonderful than gathering with family, enjoying a meal full of the flavor of the West river.
U Minh Thuong is a freshwater land, thanks to which freshwater products here are abundant, especially snakehead fish. In the past, there were a lot of snakehead fish, especially snakehead fish. However, in recent years, the natural fish resources have decreased. Local authorities encourage people to renovate ponds and lakes to raise snakehead fish, both to preserve precious species and to serve tourists. Snakehead fish can be processed into many attractive dishes, of which grilled snakehead fish is the most popular dish with many diners. The fragrant fish meat combined with the fresh taste of wild vegetables creates a rich, rustic, unforgettable flavor.
Unlike other fish sauces in the West, buffalo tongue fish sauce impresses diners with its rich flavor and the color of many vegetables from the U Minh river region. According to Luu Thanh Lap, a resident of U Minh Thuong commune, buffalo tongue fish used to have no value. When fishermen catch it, they often throw it away because few people ate it. However, in recent years, under the skillful hands of local people, buffalo tongue fish has become a valuable ingredient to make the rich specialty fish sauce of the U Minh Thuong region. Buffalo tongue fish sauce delicious can be used to make many dishes, such as: steamed fish sauce, braised fish sauce, fish sauce hotpot... but the simple dish that captivates diners the most is raw fish sauce served with boiled meat, wild vegetables and green bananas. The salty taste of fish sauce, the spicy taste of chili, the sour taste of lime juice and the slight astringency of wild vegetables, create a unique, rich blend. A full meal in the West includes a few fragrant grilled snakehead fish, a bowl of raw fish sauce mixed with garlic, chili, sugar and lime juice, and a basket of fresh wild vegetables... just looking at them makes people crave them.
Besides grilled snakehead fish and buffalo tongue fish sauce, fruit wine is also a specialty of U Minh. The wine is made from ripe fruit, fermented with sugar for natural fermentation. After the fermentation period, the mixture forms a smooth, purple-red nectar, with a strong aroma, slightly sweet like purple sticky rice, when drunk, it is not harsh on the throat, but smooth and pleasant. According to local people, delicious fruit wine must be made from wild fruit - a typical fruit found only in the Upper U Minh region. Not only used to brew wine, fruit is also a familiar ingredient in many rustic dishes such as sour soup, braised fish... Among them, sea perch braised with fruit is a special dish that anyone visiting Upper U Minh should try. The sea perch here has firm, fragrant meat, with few bones. When braised with fruit on a low stove, the fish meat is evenly absorbed, blended with the characteristic sour taste, slightly spicy from green chili, creating a flavor that is both fatty and rich, irresistible. This dish is served with lotus flowers and young shoots dipped in a boiling pot of stew, a rustic yet captivating culinary experience in the heart of the Southern forest.
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