About 1 hour flight from Ho Chi Minh City, Con Dao with an area of ​​about 76 km2 includes 16 islands, large and small with a population of nearly 10,000 people. The road to the center of Con Dao district. Photo: Pham Hung The most attractive thing here that makes visitors remember forever about Con Dao is the wonderful marine flora, the only place in Vietnam where sometimes visitors can see sea cows on the list. national survival. Come here, visitors go to Vich Island to see turtles spawn or see monkeys in nature sitting around cliffs and catching crabs and snails on both sides of the road …
The best season to travel to Con Dao is from April to November because at this time the sea is calm, the wind is cool, so visitors can freely visit without any obstacles in the weather. Coming here, visitors will relax with beautiful beaches, pristine bays like Dam Tre Bay, with wild beauty, idyllic to “melt” people’s hearts. Visitors can also explore the mangrove forest, watch swiftlets nest during the breeding season. An indispensable place in the tourist guide of Con Dao is Con Son Bay. The bay consists of a system of 14 different small and large islands, some of which are grouped together like a large family and there are clusters of islands standing in the middle of the sea. The dreamy islands of colorful coral that are more beautiful in the golden sun will make visitors unable to take their eyes off. Or like Lo Voi beach, and An Hai beach located in the Northeast of Con Dao town, Lo Voi beach and An Hai beach are one of the most beautiful beaches located at the two ends of the island.
In Con Dao, visitors need to walk about 10 minutes from the center to the beach. Going further, Dam Trau beach is likened to a very beautiful name “fairy falling asleep”. 14km ​​from the town center and 12km from Co Ong airport, Dam Trau is the ideal destination for picnics, swimming, coral viewing and adventure adventure, exploring remote islands. Tourists get off the high-speed train to visit Con Dao. Photo: Victory In the year 2020 and the first months of 2021, due to the influence of the Covid-19 epidemic, the number of visitors coming to Con Dao will decrease significantly. But from the end of March to early April the disease was well controlled, tourism was open, and the number of visitors to the island increased again. Especially on these April, many tourists come to Con Dao on this occasion to visit the graves of relatives, or to pay tribute to heroes who have fallen for national independence.
Con Dao prison is a must-visit destination not to be missed when traveling to Con Dao. This is the place where the French colonialists and the American imperialists built with hundreds of cells, cells, and separate rooms to imprison and exile Vietnamese patriots and political prisoners. Especially the famous brutal tiger cage system, which shocked the world when it was discovered. Visitors will not help shiver in hot, stuffy rooms with creepy torture tools. The prison is associated with famous names such as cow stables, tiger cages, lime kilns, salt departments, celestial ghosts … Visitors to Con Dao want to learn about the history of this place must come here to explore the national history through artifacts, images and documents in French displayed here. In addition, Hang Duong Cemetery is a spiritual destination not to be missed. This is the most famous spiritual tourist destination in Con Dao, the resting place of more than 2,000 martyrs, including national heroes in the resistance war against French colonialism and American imperialism and is home to the grave of Mrs. Vo. Thi Sau. At night, many tourists come here to visit and pray.

Fresh and dried seahorses and sea dragons are available for sale at Ham Ninh market. With fresh seahorses, it costs about 5 to 8 million VND / kg, but if bought retail, a pair of large seahorses cost about 80,000 VND, the smaller pair, about 40,000 VND. With dried seahorses if straight tail (dried while alive) costs 70 thousand VND / fish, while the dried seahorses cost about 40 thousand VND / fish … The market of Ham Ninh fishing village is located right next to the wharf and for those who first come to Phu Quoc will be surprised to see countless fresh seahorses almost all colors brown, black, yellow, pink … all kinds are sold in large pots, small pots, with oxygen tubing. In the provinces bordering the western waters of the country, Phu Quoc is considered the largest natural seahorse beak. January to April each year is the breeding season of seahorses when they find rock caves, dead coral reefs … to mate. This was also the time when Phu Quoc fishermen caught the most seahorses and sold them crowdedly in Ham Ninh market. In addition to customers who buy for self-treatment and processing, many vendors at the “miracle” market are willing to soak for customers with “miracles” … … from cleaning seahorses and sea dragons to selling both. white wines and bottles or jugs for soaking. According to Ut Map, who has sold seahorses in Ham Ninh for more than ten years, with seahorses, saliva works best, second is the eyes. When soaking in alcohol, fresh seahorses will produce saliva, so the effect is better than dried ones, so if soaking 10 fresh seahorses, with dried seahorses to soak up to 20. Seahorses here have two types, spiny type and non-spiny type. The spiny-free type is purchased faster by the middlemen because the wine is less fishy when soaked like the spiny fish. Because of the use of seahorses for the health of men passed from each other, Ham Ninh is considered to be a place that specializes in selling all kinds of “preventive medicine”. In addition to seahorses, also known as walruses, there are sea dragons, which are similar in use to seahorses, which are widely sold in dry food stalls. Along with seahorses, many visitors are overwhelmed by another kind of “miracle” that is probably only available in the “miracle” market, which is seal seal, sea cow seal is hung or sold right on the front plastic trays store. Another kind of miracle that the gentlemen are looking for is sea cucumber, but in Phu Quoc it is quite rare, but at the Ham Ninh market it is still present. Although it is a natural seahorse beak, but in Phu Quoc this very cute animal is being caught in the way of salvation and destruction due to the large purchasing power of tourists. According to incomplete statistics, each year about 1 million seahorses are caught in the waters of Phu Quoc.

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