From Can Tho City, tourists can go
on National Road No. 91, passing O Mon District then traveling to Not Not
District. Then tourists will continue through a bridge which is also named Bang
Lang. Around one kilometer from the main road is
On the way to the garden, visitors will pass green rice paddies and interlacing
canals. Tourists can visit the garden by taking a cruise on
The garden covers about two hectares and is home to thousands of storks as well
as many other kinds of birds. There are various species of storks living at
There are also other species making it their home such as black-crowned night
heron, little cormorant and greater coucal heron.
Eighty percent of birds in the garden are the white cattle egret. This species of stork often builds their nests in the garden from March to August of the lunar year.
Nguyen Ngoc Thuyen, who is often referred to as Mr. Bay Co, the owner of Bang Lang Stork Garden, at first he only wanted to save some storks stuck in fishing traps but the garden kept getting bigger and bigger.
Thus, the garden was spontaneously
established in 1983. It is strange that a large number of storks chose to make
their home at the
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