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Dong Hua Sao
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Location: Champasak, 1,100 sq km

Ecotourism Activities Available: none yet

Key Species: Elephant, grey-faced tit-babbler, yellow-cheeked gibbon.

Habitat: Semi-dry evergreen forest is the
dominant vegetation type in the lowlands
and the uplands. Lowland plains comprise well over half of the protected area at elevations from 100 to 300 m. Steep to very steep slopes rise to the edge of the Boloven Plateau at an elevation of around 1,000 m. Peaks near the plateau rim reach almost 1,300 m.

Access: Dong Houa Sao is easily accessed from major hard-top all weather roads in the west (route 13 south) and north (Pakse-Paksong). Another east-west road skirts DHS in the south.

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