The nature of Vietnam
Situated on the eastern margin of the Indochinese peninsula, Vietnam borders the Gulf of Thailand, Gulf of Tonkin and South China Sea. Its closest neighbours are China, Laos and Cambodia and the nation is a part of the biologically and culturally important Mekong River Delta region.
Vietnam is characterized by hot and humid tropical lowlands and densely forested highlands and is home to an abundance of plants and animals. Scientist are constantly finding new species in Vietnamn and the countries wildlife is far from cataloged yet. The country is home to more than 100 species of amphibians, 150 species of reptiles and more than 2000 plant speces including 800 species of food, among the animals can be found popular species such as two newly discovered species of muntjac deer. Click here for more info on tropical flowers in Vietnam and around the world.
The country is located in an area where the winds bring airborn seed from the north, south and west which has made this area extremly biological diverse and the forrest are home to a multitude of trees, flowers, fruits and berries. One of only four previously unknown large land animals to be discovered during the 20th century is native to Vietnam a wild ox that belongs to an entirely new genus. Two new species of muntjac deer has as earlier mentioned been discribed in Vietnam recently, both of the new species was founf in the same nature preserve, the Vu Quang nature reserve.
Vu Quang is located in a remote densely forested part of Vietnam in the Ha Tin province which is located on the north central coast. The area is well known for its steep mountains and dense rainforest and history buffs might know this as the base for the Phan Dinh Phung, the Vietnamese revolutionary army that fought the french colonial forces for independance during the late 1800s. The Nature Reserve is a very hot and humid place since the tall mountains trap moisture coming in from the South China Sea. The rainy season offers continuous rain rather than separated thunder storms and the dry season can hardly be described as dry in a conventional sense of the word since there is such an abundance of fog. It is very hard to move about in the preserve since all areas are wet and covered in algae wich makes them slippry. Not even local hunters like to enter the forest.
A marvel of nature that is easier to access it the 30 meter high Ban Gioc waterfall the 4th largest waterfall along a national border. The fall separates the Chinese Guangxi Province from the Cao Bang province of Vietnam, 272 km north of Hanoi. The border is marked out by a stone tablet that has been placed at the top of the fall and engraved in French and Chinese.
Another fantastic sight near the waterfall is the amazing Tongling gorge which can only be accessed by going through a cavern from another gorge. This small gorge is home to a number of endemic plants and animals that can not be found outside this gorge (a gorge is a deep valley between cliffs). This Gorge is said to contain treasure and it is said that locals have fond treasures in it in the past, this is due to the fact that it used to be a hiding place for bandits.
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