A ceremony was held on Saturday to officially welcome the recognition of Con Dao National Park as a Ramsar site, the sixth of its kind in Vietnam. Located on the Con Dao archipelago under the jurisdiction of central Ba Ria-Vung Tau province, Con Dao National Park covers nearly 20,000 hectares, with a protected forest area…
Con Dao island in the southern province of Ba Ria Vung Tau has a 200 km coastline with dozens of beautiful beaches, pure blue water and colorful coral reefs. The island also has an historic prison and thousands of graves of revolutionary soldiers. Con Dao island is becoming more and more beautiful every day. If…
Order: Columbiformes Family: Columbidae Genus: Caloenas Species: Caloenas nicobarica (Linnaeus, 1758) Vietnamese: Bồ câu Nicoba
Võ Thị Sáu (Đất Đỏ, 1933 – March 13, 1952) was a schoolgirl guerrilla remembered as a national martyr in Vietnam. She was born in Phước Thọ Commune, Đất Đỏ District, then in Bà Rịa Province (today belonging to Long Đất District, Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu Province). In 1948, Sau became a contact for a local…
One rainy November day in Saigon, with news of floods in the Central, I had a desire to explore something new. I decided to risk bad weather and backpack to Con Dao. From Tan Son Nhat International Airport it’s only half an hour on the plane to Co Ong or Con Son Airport. It’s mid-afternoon,…
Phu Quoc Express JSC on July 26 put into service an express ship, named the Trung Trac Express, on the route between Tran De District in Soc Trang Province and Con Dao Island off Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province. The ship is one of the three double-hulled high-speed ships, meeting Europeans standards, to ply the route,…
Tourists and residents in the Mekong Delta city of Can Tho can travel between Tran De in Soc Trang Province and Con Dao Island off Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province by high-speed catamaran, aside from traveling by air, sources said. Phu Quoc Express JSC today, December 5, announced the launch of the service on the Can…
Ho Chi Minh City is the nearest international airport and direct scheduled 45-minute flights from Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) are operated by VASCO, a fully owned subsidiary of Vietnam Airlines. There are 5 to 6 flights a day from the domestic terminal of Saigon’s Tan Son Nhat Airport. The dawn flight (leaving Saigon at…
