Tam Dao

While we waited for our permits to work in Yen Bai, we visited this locality high in the mountains outside of Hanoi. We were able to do some collecting in this area: catching rodent species in the local forest and collecting several different species of frogs at a small waterfall. Sudden showers made research in this area a very wet experience and led to our first encounters with leeches.

	Searching near the Waterfall
	This waterfall was a great location for frog collecting. The walk to the bottom wasn't that hard, but hiking back up the steep rock steps beside the waterfall with all the specimens we had collected often left us out of breath!
	Into the Forest
	Tam Dao had such a high elevation that low clouds gave the mountainside a misty appearance. The forest was secondary growth, meaning that old growth trees that had included many different species had been cut down and replaced by fewer species or less diversity.