Con Dao Island
1. General introduction to Con Dao
2. Certain places to visit
3. Con Dao cuisine
1. General introduction to Con Dao
Con Dao is an archipelago located off the coast of the South and also a district -level administrative unit under Ba Ria - Vung Tau province, Vietnam. The archipelago is 97 nautical miles from Vung Tau city. The closest place to Con Dao on the mainland is Vinh Hai commune, Vinh Chau town, Soc Trang province is 40 nautical miles. Con Dao was once known as the largest detention and exile in Indochina prisoner before 1975. Today, Con Dao is a resort and sightseeing spot with beaches and nature reserves of the National Park. Con Dao. It preserves historical values associated with the heroic wars of the Vietnamese nation.
• The right time to go to Con Dao:
The climate in Con Dao has a hot and humid equatorial - Hai Duong characteristics, so the weather on this island is divided into two distinct seasons. The rainy season starts from May for the end of November, the rest are the months of the dry season (from December to April next year). So according to the experience of many tourists who have been to Con Dao, the right time to travel is around March to the end of September. Especially, from April to October every year, visitors will have the opportunity Watch the turtles lay eggs at night and drop the baby turtle to the sea early in the morning under the guidance of the rangers on duty. This is the only experience only in Con Dao because it has good natural conditions and a large sea turtle population.
• How to go to Con Dao?
Visitors can choose short flights (only 45 ') or take a high-speed train at sea with a travel time of 4-5 hours. For each way of traveling to different customers, your experience will also change. Let Nettour accompany and design a different technology so you can freely enjoy every moment of your journey.
2. Certain places to visit when coming to Con Dao
Historical relics, spiritual culture
- Con Dao Museum: Con Dao Museum was built in 2009 with the purpose of researching, collecting, displaying and preserving war artifacts. The artifacts here are evidence of denunciations for war crimes, affirming the fighting will of communist soldiers during the years of heroic war. The museum attracts domestic and international tourists. The display space consists of 1 time and 4 topics: Con Dao nature human; Con Dao hell on earth; Con Dao battle line, schools; Con Dao today. Each topic takes us from one emotion to another.
- Con Dao prison system: Here the French colonialists and the American empire have built hundreds of cells, cells, and isolated rooms to detain and exile the patriotic Vietnamese people and even political prison. The most special is the famous tiger cage system, each shocking the world when discovered. In more than 100 years of history, about 20,000 people of our nation sacrificed in the "hell on earth" Con Dao. It can be said that Con Dao prison is one of the places where domestic tourists always want to visit. This place was also ranked special national monuments in 2013.
- The island palace: Also known as the other is the giant palace, the governor's palace. The total area here is up to 18,600m2 of the gate overlooking the bridge. The island lord is also the head of the apparatus of Con Dao prison system, where 53 generations of the island lord, working for 113 years from 1862-1975. The Dao Dao Palace display room also displays 4 main topics: Con Dao - the country - people, Con Dao - hell on earth, Con Dao - a school of revolutionary struggle, Con Dao - revolutionary historical monument Currently and in the hearts of Vietnamese people.
- Hang Duong Cemetery: is the biggest cemetery in Con Dao, where thousands of revolutionary soldiers and patriots in many generations of Vietnam rest. Whether tourists or people on the island often visit this place to visit the grave and incense to the heroic martyrs who sacrificed their blood and blood for the years of fierce struggle against the enemy. In the cemetery campus, there is a tomb of Ms. Vo Thi Sau is a destination that attracts a lot of tourists to visit. Especially, the more fanciful the night of the cemetery area, thanks to the small lights on the tombs
- Ba Phi Yen Temple: is the only temple on the island, worshiping Ms. Phi Yen - the "goddess" is devoted to beliefs and respect. As soon as the welcoming gate of Con Dao tourists will immediately feel the sacred and solemnity here when everyone is gentle and careful. Ms. Phi Yen was the one who had discouraged the act of selling the Vinh Cau country of Nguyen Anh. Later, the people cherished her virtue, so she established a temple to worship.
- Nui Mot Pagoda (Van Son Tu): Nui Mot Pagoda is known as the most beautiful feng shui pagoda in the country, a tourist destination for Con Dao no visitors can ignore. From the temple we can zoom down to see the whole view of Con Dao town, Con Son Bay and An Hai Lake. This Con Dao tourist destination is famous for the statue of Mandarin Bodhisattva standing on a 2m high lotus, holding an orange water bottle in the campus. In addition, the sculpture architecture here is also subtly carved with large, superficial wooden columns that a person cannot hug.
The most beautiful beaches
- Dam Trau Beach: This is the only beach of Vietnam being honored by Travel and Leisure magazine in the top 25 most beautiful beaches in the world. With pristine landscapes, clear and special sea water, visitors can watch the aircraft take off and land at Co Pipe Airport nearby.
- Beach: Simple but pristine, with the clear blue sea hidden in the tide up and down.Especially, young people also love the road to Bai Nhan, can capture the beauty of mountains and sea. On the shore of each undulating gravel beach, all shapes, stacked on top of each other looks extremely beautiful.
- Bai Ong Chong: is the tourist destination Con Dao received a lot of praise by the level of play. When this place converges a diverse and interesting biological population, and the flora of the sea with colorful coral reefs, saltwater waters with rocks, shrimp, crabs, snails ... and trees , mountains and primeval forests nearby ... extremely suitable for those who are intending to camp or outdoor picnics.
Ecological tourism, natural conservation:
- Hon Bay Xen Forest Protection Station: From April to October every year is the breeding season of sea turtles. The mother turtle will return to where they are born and continue their life cycle. The big sand at Hon Bay Xen is the ideal place to be the most egg -laying turtle in Vietnam. Visitors will have the opportunity to learn and see the sea turtles at a very close distance according to the guidance of the rangers here and when the dawn is up, visitors will be able to participate in the activities of releasing the turtle to the sea. . Emotions and experiences touch each person's heart.
3. Con Dao Cuisine:
• Ba Khiem crab vermicelli: This is a famous breakfast dish of the people of Con Dao. Any tourist when visiting here should experience once.
• Types of fish sauce: Mam, oyster sauce
• Fresh seafood: shrimp hat ni, tiger tiger shrimp, moon crab, snapper, cow fish, shark ...
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