LUNAR NEW YEAR IN CON DAO ( 3 days and 2 nights )

• First day:CON DAO – BEN DAM PORT

  : Lunch | Dinner

  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 (Co Ong village, Ot stream, Tau Be cape, Lo Voi cape) as well as get the general information about Con Dao.

  Have lunch and check in.

  

  2:00pm: 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.

  6:00pm: Have dinner and take own leisure time.

  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.
• Second day: Historical relics – Dam Trau beach

  : Breakfast | Lunch | Dinner

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

  8:00am: 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. 

  12:00pm: Have lunch.

  1:00pm: Check in and relax.

  2:30pm: 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: Con Dao Market – Tour ends

  : Breakfast | Lunch

  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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