CON DAO – NATURE AND LEGENDARY ( 4 days 3 nights )

• First day: CON DAO – HISTORY

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  In the morning: Welcome visitors to Con Dao at Con Son airport. On the way going to the Con Dao town, visitors will have chance to eye beautiful landscapes as well as get the general information about Con Dao. Have lunch and check in.

  2:00pm: Car and guide will take visitors visit some famous Con Dao historical relics:

  • French Tiger Cages: The center of Con Dao prison system. Discover Tiger Cages system built solidly hidden among the maze-like and eyesight fool buildings, where the most brutal tortures applied to prisoners.

  • American Tiger Cages: With small and wet cell ranges were built in 1971, this prison was known as the place tortured mental and physical prisoners. This was also the first place in Con Dao got information about Saigon liberated.

  The Lord Building: Formerly, this house was the working place of Lord generations. Visitors can learn about Con Dao history by the artifacts, antiques, photographs and materials were formed from the French colonial period to the present.

  • Phu Hai Prison: The prison where pledged, exiled and tortured thousands of communist with names: Rice Tunnel, Cells,…

  •  Separated Shed Place: used to livestock, mostly for cattle during French and American time. Here has a big cattle shit cell used to torture prisoners.

  • Phi Yen Temple: this is place revering Lady Phi Yen – concubines of Nguyen Anh King. In Con Dao, locals revere two women: Lady Phi Yen concubines and Vo Thi Sau heroine as their saints.

  6:30pm: Have dinner and enjoy Con Dao night

  10:00pm: Visit the Hang Duong cemetery where is resting place of over twenty thousand Vietnamese revolutionaries and patriots through imprisoned generations, brutally tortured. Visitors incense to commemorate the heroic martyrs as well as Vo Thi Sau heroine.

  

  BAY CANH ISLAND

  BAY CANH ISLAND

  

  Located to the east of Con Son island with area of ​​683 hectares. The whole island is covered by rainforest with wildlife distribution of endemic, rare spicies such as ebony squirrel, Con Dao black squirrel, lizards, pythons, snakes, some seabird species ...

  Mangrove forest on this island is primative grown on dead coral and sand . Although the area is not large (about 5.1 ha ) but the existence of mangrove ecosystems have contributed perfect linkage between ecosystems, such as: tropical forest, mangrove forest, seagrass beds and coral reefs .

  Bay Canh area was planned for ecological recovery and no take zone.

  Marine resources around Bay Canh have high biodiversity, with many species of marine life such as coral reefs with diverse species composition, mussels, oysters, sea cucumbers, fish live in coral reefs, sea turtles​​, sea grass, seaweed .... All should be planned as no take zone and ecological recovery which serve natural conservation .

  Cat Lon beach on the island is one of 14 turtles' breeding grounds and Con Dao is the place has the most sea turtles lay eggs in Con Dao. During the breeding season (from April to September yearly), at least 1-2 turtles come to nest, some nights there from 20-30 turtles.

  Lighthouse in the north-east of the island was built by the French in 1884 until now still working, guiding sailing in the area. Tourists walk along the mountain trail to the lighthouse can see the scenery and the majestic sky and sea in Con Dao.

  DESCRIPTION:

  - A marine eco-tourism route by boat, which is organized and operated in the Park Visitor Center. The service includes bathing, swimming to see coral, explore mangrove forest, sightseeing, explore resources conservation activities, watching turtles lay eggs during the breeding season, see tank crab feeding in mangrove forest (at night) and release baby turtles into the sea, walking to the lighthouse, time 4-5 hours (book in advance).

  - Requirements: bring appropriate luggage, life jackets, snorkeling gears renting in Central Park. It should need a guide of National Park or the local community for guidance.

  - Time: 4-6 hours or overnight stays; Environmental capacity: up to 48 guests daytime/ 1 time, at night time: 20-25 guests.

  
• Second day: BEN DAM PORT – DAM TRAU BEACH

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  6:30am: Have breakfast.

  8:30am:  Car and guide will pick visitors to visit the port in south of Con Dao island. It is named Ben Dam port:

  - Firstly, visit Nui Mot pagoda (also known as Van Son pagoda): This is a restored from a former pagoda. Visiting pagoda to pray for luckiness in new year. Take a view from high position.

  - Enjoy Da Trang beach and Shark cape sceneries. Visit the memorial monument to remind about the strongest prison escape event in Con Dao. Have a look to Love peak.

  - At Nhat beach: The beach was made by millions of boulders with a white sandy beach at low tide.

  - At Ben Dam port: Visitors are informed about the largest port in Con Dao. Enjoy the beautiful sceneries of Ba island and Thanh Gia mountain.

  - Nui Mot pagoda (also known as Van Son pagoda): This is a restored from a former pagoda. Local people come here everyday to pray and look for their peaceful lives. Everyone should not miss this place when coming to Con Dao. Take a view from high position.

  11:30am: Have lunch.

  1:00pm: Check in and relax.

  3:00pm: Visitors are driven to Dam Trau beach. On the way, visitors can pass Ong Tong slope, Tau Be cape. Stop to incense at Canh Prince Temple- Nguyen Anh King and Phi Yen Concubine’s son. Continue to Dam Trau beach – a beautiful yellow sandy beach wildly. Visitors enjoy clear water and some sea sports.

  5:30pm: Come back hotel. Freely.

  6:00pm: Have dinner and discover Con Dao night time.
• Third day: BAY CANH ISLAND DISCOVERY

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  6:30am: Have breakfast.

  8:00am: Moving to the port by car then to enjoy the boat trip: Con Son bay – Cau island – Bay Canh island.

  8:45am: Anchoring in front of Cat Lon beach, Bay Canh island to go snorkeling to discover beautiful coral reefs in very clear water.

  11:00am: Get the shore to explore the island with mangrove forest, learning about Sea turtles conservation, and then release hatchlings to the sea (if any). Swimming and freely, take photographs.

  12:00pm: Have BBQ at Bay Canh station.

  1:30pm: Come back the town and relax freely.

   

   

   

  *Note: Option tour in case boat trip  is imposible caused of weather.

   

  SO RAY PLANTATION – ONG DUNG BEACH – MA THIENG LANH BRIDGE

  8g00: Trekking in the forest up to a height of 260m to visit the So Ray plantation. Here you can explore tropical forest, many rare and endemic species such as Con Dao Long-Tailed Macaque, Con Dao Black gaint squirrel, and other native wildlife can be found in this area. You can make a town view from watch-towel.

  10:00am: Continuing the trek to Ong Dung beach, you can see ancient trees and some bird species that only live in Con Dao such as Imperial Pigeon and Nicobar pigeon.

  11:15am: You can go snorkeling to see coral and reef fishes at Ông Đụng beach, having lunch at Ong Dung Ranger Station and take a bit of rest..

  12:00pm: Have baberque with Ranger in Ong Dung station.

  2:00pm: On the returning trip, visitors can learn more about Côn Đảo’s wildlife by reading  environmental interpretation signboards along the way. The tour stops at Ma Thiên Lãnh Bridge, a historical relic built by Vietnamese prisoners under the French regime in the 1930s.

  6:30pm: Have dinner and enjoy Con Dao night
• FOUR DAY: CON DAO MARKET – TOUR ENDS

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  6:30am: Have breakfast at hotel’s restaurant.

  8:30am: Visit Con Dao market, go shopping freely for some Con Dao souvenirs and specialties.

  10:30am: Check out.

  11:00am: Have lunch.

  In the afternoon: Go to the Con Son airport fly back to HCM city. Goodbye Con Dao.

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