YOK DON NATIONAL PARK
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National park home to over 60 mammal species and government-controlled tourist activities.
Yok Don National Park, the largest in the country (115,545 ha), is home to more than 60 species of mammals, often endangered, such as the tiger, elephant, gayal, gaur (Bos javanicus). Nevertheless, there is hope, as new species have also been discovered in Yok Don, including a variety of wild dog (Canis auvis). The park is also the place of life of many minorities (Edé, Mnong...) whose villages nowadays host tourist activities: gong concerts, dances, welcome ceremony where everyone drinks from a jar of alcohol with a long bamboo torch. The government closely controls these activities, which it is trying to empty of their original meaning in order to confine them to "folklorization" for tourist use. However, identities are holding up so far. Several articles in the Vietnamese press have also documented the looting of the park's natural resources, including the cutting of precious woods, by those in charge of its protection.
During the visit, possibility to observe elephants in the wild. In July 2018, elephant rides were abandoned because of the suffering they caused the animals. Tourism development is still in its infancy, but the authorities are now more open and offer some innovative activities: learning how to look after elephants; living a day in a ranger's house, bird watching, etc. Proposals to be consulted on the website.
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