Ta Dung National Park - An impressive wonder among the vast Central Highlands

Ta Dung is as beautiful as a watercolor painting, the clear blue water surface reflects the vast cloudy sky, more than 40 green islands protrude from the water in many shapes and sizes, creating an enchanting landscape.

Ta Dung is as beautiful as a watercolor painting, the clear blue water surface reflects the vast cloudy sky, more than 40 green islands protrude from the water in many shapes and sizes, creating an enchanting landscape.

Ta Dung National Park - a treasure of the Central Highlands in both economic and natural terms. (Photo: Duong Giang/TTXVN)

Ta Dung National Conservation Area (Ta Dung National Park), is one of the famous landscapes in Dak P'lao commune and Dak Som commune, Dak Glong district, Dak Nong province.

Possessing natural scenery that is both wild and poetic, this place is considered a treasure of the Central Highlands in terms of both economics and nature.

Ta Dung National Park is an eco-tourism area with an area of ​​more than 26,000 hectares, forest coverage rate reaches 85%, of which primary forest accounts for more than 48%, and possesses an extremely diverse ecosystem.

The highlight of Ta Dung National Park is Ta Dung lake located on the mountain at an altitude of 1,982m above sea level. This is an artificial freshwater lake, a reservoir for the Dong Nai 3 hydroelectric project built in 2012.

The activity of blocking the hydroelectric flow has created a beautiful wonder with a vast lake of nearly 6,000 hectares, dotted with dozens of islands jutting out on the lake's surface, known as a "miniature version of Ha Long Bay". Highlands.

The ingenious combination of natural scenery and human creation has created a beautiful landscape.

Viewed from above, Ta Dung is as beautiful as a watercolor painting, the clear blue water surface reflects the vast cloudy sky, more than 40 islands are created from basalt red soil protruding from the water in many shapes, sizes, creating creating an enchanting landscape.

Ta Dung Lake is most beautiful from July to December. (Photo: VNA broadcast)

The beauty of Ta Dung Lake changes flexibly at many times of the day. In the early mornings, Ta Dung is dim in the mist like a poetic fairy scene.

When the Sun rises, the water surface glows in the sunlight, the green islands are bathed in sunlight, bringing a beauty of richness.

At sunset, Ta Dung is stunningly beautiful as the clouds quickly drift towards the end of the sky, leaving behind the red dusk that dyes the lake's surface pink, the islands and dunes cast shadows on the water, making it so poetic and peaceful.

Ta Dung National Park area has a typical climate of the Central Highlands with dry and rainy seasons. The amount of water in Ta Dung Lake changes with each season, creating diverse natural scenery.

The ideal time to enjoy the beauty of "Ha Long Bay on land" is during the flood season, from July to December. This time, not only is the weather very beautiful, with little rain, but it is also the time The scenery of Ta Dung becomes the most perfect.

The lake water is high and clear, the rain makes the trees on the islands green, full of life, and the air is fresh and clean. The blue sky is high, white clouds float lazily, reflecting on the clear water surface. Mountains, forests, rivers, lakes, clouds and sky blend together so charmingly.

Visitors can take a boat to the area of ​​floating islands, admire and fully explore the beauty of the unique watercolor painting in this vast Central Highlands land. Under the clear water, see with your own eyes the fish happily swimming around the soft green algae clusters gliding along the water waves.

[Moved Ta Dung National Park Management Board under Dak Nong Provincial People's Committee]

In the Ta Dung Nature Reserve, there are also many other attractions such as Dak N'teng stream, Dak P'lao stream... flowing through, forming very attractive and mysterious waterfalls such as Dak Plao waterfall, waterfall 7 floors, Sun waterfall... lively, are the favorite check-in spots of many tourists.

The vast forest vegetation layer creates conditions for animals to live and develop. (Photo: Duong Giang/TTXVN)

Not only does it have the beautiful beauty of the lake and the majestic mountains and forests, the Ta Dung Nature Reserve is also home to more than 1,000 species of animals, including 37 out of 88 rare species. need to be protected, accounting for nearly half of the animals in Ta Dung.

There are many species in the Red Book of Vietnam and the world such as deer, toucans, leopards, primates, peacocks, pheasants...

Among rare species, Ta Dung has 3 endemic mammals of Vietnam: silver-cheeked langur, orange-cheeked gibbon, and black-shanked douc langur.

In particular, Ta Dung is one of three protected areas in Vietnam with Golden Deer (also known as Swamp Deer), an endemic species of Indochina and Thailand. They are in danger of extinction due to reduced habitat and hunting.

Ta Dung National Park is also one of four endemic bird areas in Vietnam, accounting for 1/8 of Vietnam's bird species and one of 222 endemic bird areas in the world.

The Crested Tit lives in Ta Dung Nature Reserve. (Photo: Duong Giang/TTXVN)

In the list of 202 bird species, there are 16 species in the Red Book. Typical bird species include pheasants, peacocks, endemic laughing birds and white-crested pheasants.

Located in the middle of a land with a rich cultural history with tangible and intangible cultural values ​​such as the Central Highlands Gong Cultural Space, Central Highlands Epics, indigenous cultural values ​​are also factors that make Ta Dung becomes a destination worth exploring.

Visitors have the opportunity to learn about the unique cultural values ​​of the Ma ethnic people - long-standing residents of this land.

For generations, the Ma people have often sung and told each other epics about the majestic Ta Dung mountain, about the legends and names of each stream and hill, and taught their children that protecting the forest is the key. protect the lives of villagers.

Thanks to the awareness of forest protection of the Ma people, over the years, Ta Dung Nature Reserve has always maintained the immense green color of a paradise - a natural treasure in the midst of the majestic Central Highlands./.

With a total natural area of ​​more than 21,000 hectares and a diverse ecosystem, Ta Dung Nature Reserve plays an important role in protecting the watershed of the Serepok and Dong Nai river systems.

Ta Dung nature reserve has a large layer of forest vegetation, covering up to 85% of the core area of ​​the reserve, of which primary forest accounts for more than 48%.

Ta Dung currently has more than 574 animal species, including 37 rare species such as black-shanked douc, red-cheeked gibbon, small loris, tiger, leopard, python, reticulated python, king cobra and 16 bird species are in the Vietnam Red Book along with more than 1,400 plant species.

The Crested Tit lives in Ta Dung Nature Reserve. (Photo: Duong Giang/TTXVN)

A white pine tree with a base diameter of nearly 1 meter in Ta Dung Nature Reserve. (Photo: Duong Giang/TTXVN)

The vast forest vegetation layer creates conditions for animals to live and develop. (Photo: Duong Giang/TTXVN)

Sassafras tree has a large diameter in Ta Dung Nature Reserve. (Photo: Duong Giang/TTXVN)

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Update day : 25/10/2023