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Con Dao Island

Tuesday, 03 November 2009 10:18

 Location:

Con Dao Island District belongs to Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province, about 180km from Vung Tau City, around 250 kilometres, or a 45-minute flight, from Ho Chi Minh City. This is an ideal destination for a beach vacation or a diving tour.

Con Dao National Park:

Comprising of 16 islands of different sizes, Con Dao National Park is one of two national parks in Vietnam owing both forest and marine protected area. With the total area of around 15,043ha, including 9,000ha marine and 6,043ha forest, the park's terrain is primarily hills and mountains. The highest peak is Thanh Mount (557m) and the other peaks are 150 - 300m high.


Belonging to the tropical island ecosystem, forest in Con Dao is divided into two main types of woods with 882 species of fauna, nearly 150 species of animal, among which there are some rare species only found in Con Dao such as Con Dao black squirrel, winged house gecko, and some species of birds just existing in Con Dao like Masked booby, Red-billed tropicbird, Nicba pigeon and Rock pigeon.

Con Dao has 3 primary marine ecosystems including mangrove forest, marine grass and coral reefs. Marine species are quite numerous with 285 species of hard coral, 84 species of sea weed, 202 species of fish, 153 species of mollusc, etc. What is more, marine grass ecosystem estimate about 200ha, comprising of 9 species among 16 ones in the world. Con Dao's sea is a home of tortoise-shell, turtle, black whale, and especially Dugong, one of the extremely rare species in the world.

Tourism:

Coming to Con Dao, tourists is sure to have comfortable and relaxing holidays deeply sunk in wild nature and experience rare species in the world surviving in Con Dao National Park, and visit valuable historic vestiges.

Partly as a result of this protected state, the island is very popular with divers with over 1,000 hectares of coral reefs and over 1,300 marine species so far identified. Rainbow Divers is the only dive-shop on the island.

Despite these considerable assets and its proximity to the mainland, the islands are still largely untouched by mass tourism. The government plans to turn Con Dao into a “high quality and economic tourist area by 2020”. Con Dao resort and Saigon Con Dao are main accommodations for tourists. The upcoming Six Senses Hideaway Con Dao of Six Senses Group promises a luxury beach vacation in Con Dao Island with full of facilities and services.  

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