U Minh Thuong National Park is located in An Minh Bac commune of An Minh district, and Minh Thuan commune of Vinh Thuan district, Kien Giang province, 365 km south-west of Ho Chi Minh City. U Minh Thuong National Park covers an area of 21,107 ha, which core area accounts for 8038 ha, and buffer zone accountsfor 13,069 ha. This is the type of tropical forest ecosystems and wetlands which are very rare in the world.

Animal and plant systems in U Minh Thuong National Park is diverse and rich: besides local melaleuca tree (Melaleuca cajuputi), there are over 243 species of higher vascular plants, including many species high wood, such as Bui, Foam, Dau, Tram, Gao, … With the presence of 32 species of mammals, 186 birds, 39 amphibian reptiles, 34 species of fish, U Minh Thuong National Park has the most plentiful flora and fauna in the area of Mekong Delta. Many animals such as hairy-nosed otters, fishing cats, gray legs pelican, etc are recorded in Vietnam and the world Red Book.

Tourism activities
Bird watching - Visiting "Trang doi"
From Hoa Mai Lake along the center channel, you can come to the center of the national park area, along both sides of grass higher than head-man. Sometimes the monkeys in the trees along the embankment rise eyes on visitors, somewhere a bird startled and flapping its wings flying to the deep blue sky. The next, visitor arrive to "Trang doi" where contain many bats and crows. You can see many bats hang on the plants look like many fruits on tree. And then, visitors come to "Trang chim" - a very large area with tens of thousands of birds of all kinds gathered here with the rich colors.

Fishing
In the morning, visitors can hire a small boat, go along the Hoa Mai lake to fishing. The attraction of fishing in U Minh Thuong National Park is natural fishing but as fishing on the lake. You can easily to get a spikes perch (Ca ro gai) is approximately 200 grams or a big snakehead (Ca loc), weighing 3-4 kg ...