Located in Nghệ An province, Pù Mát national park is the flagship park on the northern massif of Trường Sơn mountains along the Vietnamese-Laos border.
Visitor taking highway 7 from coastal Vinh to Pù Mát meander west through pure, rustic beauty towards the border. The park haedquaters are near Con Cuông, a small “wild west” town perched on the banks of the huge and slumbering Cả river which is itself nestled amongst precipitous karst peaks.
Pù Mát’s true wilderness with spectacular features such as the Kẽm waterfall is accessible only to well-organised expeditions. However, the reachable buffer zone shares the park’s beauty. Park staff can direct visitors travelling on foot or by motorbike to ethnic Thái or Đan Lai villages and can even help arrange for stays in the villagers’ stilt houses in the luscious, forested river valleys. Here, visitors can experience the park’s extraordimary diversity, although they won’t glimpse the more magnificent wild animals, such as Asian elephants, tigers, sao la Asian black bears or yellow cheeked gibbons.
Visitor taking highway 7 from coastal Vinh to Pù Mát meander west through pure, rustic beauty towards the border. The park haedquaters are near Con Cuông, a small “wild west” town perched on the banks of the huge and slumbering Cả river which is itself nestled amongst precipitous karst peaks.
Pù Mát’s true wilderness with spectacular features such as the Kẽm waterfall is accessible only to well-organised expeditions. However, the reachable buffer zone shares the park’s beauty. Park staff can direct visitors travelling on foot or by motorbike to ethnic Thái or Đan Lai villages and can even help arrange for stays in the villagers’ stilt houses in the luscious, forested river valleys. Here, visitors can experience the park’s extraordimary diversity, although they won’t glimpse the more magnificent wild animals, such as Asian elephants, tigers, sao la Asian black bears or yellow cheeked gibbons.
Pu Mat National Park
Those who stop to rest or swim in the shimmering rivers may catch a glimpse of rare, giant black squirrels jumping through the forest canopy and might hear the crested argus, a beautiful pheasant with one of the world’s longest sets of tail feathers. The buffer zone is the perfect place to see local people living together with the forest. Elderly Thái women search for gold, using stick to balance themselves in the rivers. Young men and women build large wooden waterwheels to irrigate their small fields. Local villagers will guide visitors through labyrinths of karst caves during nighttime bat surveys. Many caves are over ten kilometers long. Surveys have shown that these caves may contain the greatest diversity of bat species in Vietnam.
Pu Mat - Nghe An
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