It’s not quite the Mekong Delta but Phan Huy Tram for Thanh Nien writes..
Famous for its beaches, the resort town of Nha Trang offers nature-lovers a special, “strange” experience in the heart of a private mangrove forest
Beautiful islands, sandy beaches, great diving spots - Nha Trang Bay is famous for these attractions.
But you can also take the less travelled path here.
Just three kilometers from the town’s center stands a mangrove forest that was cultivated and tended to for two decades by Nguyen Van Hung.
Hung, now in his fifties, has opened the forest to visitors, but is insistent that the tourism business does not harm it in anyway. He was moved to cultivate the forest after seeing hectares of mangrove forests destroyed by shrimp farming.
The mangrove forest, covering some 25,000 square meters, is unfortunately a rare phenomenon in the bay area which has seen a dramatic decrease in the brackish water species over the past 30 years. Mangrove forests have dwindled from 500 hectares to just 11 hectares at present.
Hung, who calls the forest the Tu Rung Duoc Resort, said, “I want to do business in tourism without doing harm to the forest.”
True to his word, he allows no motorboats in the forest as they may harm underwater creatures and scare storks with their engine noise. Hung’s afforestation work has been so effective that blue storks have chosen the forest to build their nests and stay the night.
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