Wa Ale Resort in Lampi Marine National Park reopens for travelers
LAMPI Marine National Park, Myanmar’s first marine
park, hosts large crowds of domestic travellers and tourists yearly, and the Wa
Ale Resort will be opened in the last week of this month.
The Lampi Marine National Park, about 60 nautical
miles from Kawthoung, covers 100.15 acres and possesses biodiversity, offering
varieties of botanical, biological, and marine-related amphibians.
“The Wa Ale Resort, which tourists would like to
visit, will be open by the end of October this year due to weather conditions.
Normally, we open it in early October. It is opened under a rental system on
the land of the Forest Department. The tourist agencies licenced by the
Ministry of Hotels and Tourism arrange day trips for tourists from Kawthoung.
The tourists who stay at Wa Ale Resort stay for a week or ten days, depending
on their visa status. The international tourists come there during the open
season. It is a proper place that the tourists like. If we can upgrade the
transportation, power and basic infrastructure, the tourism of this region will
develop more. We keep doing study and supervisory together with conservation
for the sustainability of the marine national park,” said U Kyi Oo, the warden
of the park.
The visitors to Lampi Island prefer canoeing
watching amphibians and birds in the forest. They also like windsurfing,
diving, enjoying the coral reefs and studying the living style of Salon people.
Moreover, they like walking in the sand and sunbathing.
Lampi Island is 30 miles long and seven miles wide.
It boasts a variety of biodiversity, 288 species of water birds and resident
birds, and is home to hornbills and common bottlenose dolphins or Atlantic
bottlenose dolphins.
Myanmar has two marine national parks, Lampi and
Kyun Nantha. Lampi Marine National Park is one of the ASEAN Heritage Parks.
International tourists visit the Wa Ale Resort in Lampi Marine National Park
every year. — Nyein Thu (MNA)/KTZH
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