My surveys in Tram Chim National Park 

My research has interviews for local people to determine how fish and plants in the Park benefit them. I collaborated with an official in the Park for interviews. We rode motors to find the local people who exploited fish and plants in the Park last year. For a long time, I did not ride a motor! Now, I am not kidding, riding is amazing!!!

Our survey team, my friend working in the Park and me

 We traveled to local people's residence areas. Some people live near canals.

Local people's house floor is built higher than flood water level 

Between local people's house and the Park's levee is a canal

This time, we interviewed local people in a coffee shop (you will see coffee shop everywhere in Vietnam!!!)

Some houses are far from the Park. I am interviewing local people in a local coffee shop

Traditionally, rural people wear no shirt at home, like to sit on their house floor for talking, and invite us drinking their tea

Here is the monitoring tower for the Park's protection. I will take some landscape photos from here

I did some investigation of water gates. Next time, I will do some "swimming-in-flood water" surveys!!!

We did surveys in the morning and input data in the afternoon. How poor my Vietnamese was!!! Sometimes, I needed my friend to express my questions to the local people. For questionnaires, of courses, I have modified my questions many times to become friendlier to local people.

This time is the flood time in the Mekong River Delta. You will see some plants and fish next blogs! 

Tram Chim National Park - my research favor

The Tram Chim National Park (Park) is located at the Mekong River Delta, Vietnam. This Park has the wetland type representative for the Delta that is influenced by an annual flood.

I am conducting surveys of how tourism benefits the Park and how the Park supports local people's livelihood via fish and plants.

I have captured some moment when arrive at the Park. Below is the coffee shop of the Environmental Education and Tourism Center in the Park (it reminds me the Starbucks coffee shop!!!)

Here are some sunset photos in a sightseeing station (They look like some corners of the Everglades???)

This is a levee of the Park. The left hand side is the buffer zone where local people do rice cultivation or aquacultural cultivation. 

 This is a small canal inside the Park. It is functioned as a water transport mean for fire protection

 And, some captures of sunset, water and plants inside the Park

Others will come up!!!