U MINH HA NATIONAL FOREST - THE RESERVATION AT THE END OF VIETNAM

U Minh Ha National Park brings typical features of Southern mangrove forest, trees in U Minh are mainly mangrove melaleuca, pimply lasia (a type of water grass), eleocharis, reed and vines… with varied fauna such as: freshwater fish, pangolin, wild boar, deer, monkey, squirrel, lizard, python, snake, turtle ... Many rare species listed in Vietnam Red Book should be preserved.
U Minh generally is still wild, fresh and cool air with one green color cover which is endless, headline off to the horizon. U Minh Ha today becomes an ideal eco-tourism destination attracting many tourists everywhere to visit and relax.

If you don’t have so much time, visitors can arrive U Minh Ha on weekends, sit on “vỏ lãi” (the local boat in Ca Mau) and drift on canals to inhale full of chest fresh air and go fishing. It's interesting that you can fish some fishes which are weighed up to several kilograms. Then, you can wrap them by forest leaves and bake to make an attract dish with strong countryside flavor.

U Minh Ha brings many thrilling mysteries and stories, legends about Uncle Ba Phi life – a man who lives in U Minh forest, is famous for taking lie special talent of ancient South. Coming U Minh Ha, travelers will heard about many things about Bac Ba Phi by honest people here such as: the animals seemed real that Uncle Ba Phi did "fighting" in U Minh like giant pythons, giant snakes, giant crocodile.
People living in U Minh Ha forest are assigned land, forest by the State. They survive on their own forest by some other occupations such as: plating forest and logging, rising bee, fishing, putting heck, catching eels, dropping nets, slapping lagoon, planting fruit trees. Closing to the forest so U Minh Ha people love so much forest, love nature and keep the forest as their treasure.

Every year, when the rainy season comes, U Minh Ha mangrove forest’s canopy is the breeding ground for many species of fish. This is a profit source for people living in U Minh Ha forest to exploit to earn high income for family life.
Tourists will find exciting feeling when sitting under the canopy of mangrove forest and sipping a few glasses of wine with baked snakehead fish dotting with tamarind fish sauce or baked rainbow water snake dotting with green chili salt.
Wild vegetables here are very rich, visitors can find polybody plant, immature lotus leaf, lily flower, monochoria, hyacinth flower… They are almost everywhere.
Would be remiss if not mention to an extremely valuable specialty of U Minh Ha deep jungle. It is wild honey taken by people here from honeycombs in mangrove forest. The characteristic of U Minh Forest honey is clear and yellow as orange juice. Honey is solid, can pour it into bottles without hopper. It brings melaleuca flower flavor and high nutritional value for health.
Traveling to Ca Mau, visitors easily feel the gentle and honest character of U Minh Ha people. You will be immersed into nature, wild forests and discharged all your troubles drifting downstream. Fishing then cooking baked snakehead fish dish and sipping a cup of rice wine, hearing Uncle Ba Phi life stories make your life more meaningful.