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Location:
Con Dao Island is situated in Ba Ria - Vung Tau Province
Characteristics: Con Dao Island is also famous for its nice beaches
shaded with evergreen trees, fresh air, clear blue waters, and primitive
forests.
Looking at a map,
Con Dao Island looks like a bear rising from the sea to south east of Vietnam.
Originally a prison for patriots and revolutionists during the French and
American resistance, Con Dao Island sheltered brave revolutionary spirits of the
Vietnamese people. More than 22,000 prisoners who dedicated their lives to
national independence were incarcerated on the isolated island of Con Dao.
Con Dao was
recognized as a nature reserve in 1984 and a national park in 1993. The total
protected area of the park is 20,000ha, including 14,000ha of sea and 6,000ha of
forest on 14 islands. There is also a buffer zone that is 20,500ha wide. Con Dao
National Park encompasses oceanic and coastal ecosystems such as mangrove
forests, coral reefs and sea grasslands. Over 1,300 species of sea animals have
been identified here. The park is the most important egg-laying area in Vietnam
for sea turtles. The island also has many precious animals, the most important
being dugong (called sea cows by locals). Between
late 1996 and early 1997, officials at the park counted 10 dugong in the sea
surrounding the island. With high oceanic biodiversity, Con Dao is classified as
one of the areas given optimum priority in the world's system of oceanic
reserves.
The best time to
visit Con Dao Island is from March to June, when the sea is calm. Some of those
beaches include Dam Trau, Hang Duong and Phi Yen where visitors can relax and
enjoy the warm temperature. The ocean around Con Dao Island is a heaven for sea
life and the splendid forest cloaks the land. This is ecotourism at its best.
Clean, smooth sand banks, blue sea, dolphins jumping and racing after boats,
tropical almond trees swinging in a cool sea breeze, peaceful narrow roads, and
forest covering most of the island, make Con Dao seem like heaven to visitors
from far and wide.
Con Dao is one of the few places in Vietnam that is home to rare
dugong, sea turtles,
and dolphins, and to varieties of orchids found nowhere else in the country. In
addition, the island has large and diverse coral reefs comparable to the most
famous ecotourism spots in the region. This peaceful island district has 5,000
people whom nature seems to have created with kind hearted and generous
characters and adventurous enough to choose the remote island as their home.
Visitors will arrive there to enjoy themselves in an intact natural environment
and have a good time with dugong, sea turtles and dolphins playing freely around
the island paradise.
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