Con Dao National Park Vườn quốc gia Côn Đảo
Forest and water across the islands
Forest-and-sea park across 14 or 16 islands: give it a day on a walk or a boat for the water and the forest. The adult scenic fee is 60,000 VND on the small-island routes and 50,000 VND on the forest and beach routes. The boat and the prison ticket sit outside that fee.
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A forest pond and the hill inside the park
Photo: Tycho · CC BY-SA 3.0
You cross a park of forest and sea, with the office on đường Ma Thiên Lãnh, khu 3. Decision 135/QĐ-TTg of 31 March 1993 founded it on the forbidden forest of Decision 85/CT of 1 March 1984. From 1 July 2025 the city runs it. The area is given as 19,883.15 hectares, and also as nearly 20,000 and as 19,991, the last of those designated on 18 June 2013. Forest is 5,883.15 hectares in the detailed count and nearly 6,000 in the round count. Sea is 14,000 hectares, or nearly 14,000, with a marine buffer of 20,500 hectares. The island count is 14 or 16. Côn Sơn is the largest island, and its area is also given as 5,700 hectares.
Photo: Tycho · CC BY-SA 3.0
A forest pond and the hill sit inside the park, and casuarina lines a Côn Sơn shore. Đầm Trầu’s sand is described as yellow, fine, and flat, and also as amber. Núi Thánh Giá is 577 metres and Núi Chúa is 515 metres. The living lists run past 1,000 vascular plants, 29 mammals, 85 birds, and 46 reptiles and amphibians, plus sóc đen Côn Sơn, about 31 hectares of mangrove, and coral reefs of about 1,000 hectares. A separate coral count is 355 species. The species count and the reef area stay side by side.
From 1 August 2022 the adult fee is 60,000 VND per person per route on routes 1–3 and 50,000 VND on routes 4–17, including Đầm Trầu, Ông Đụng, Bến Đầm, Cỏ Ống, and the Ma Thiên Lãnh walks. Students and trainees pay 20,000. Children and pupils pay 10,000. From 2017, a night turtle guide is 350,000 to 600,000 VND by group size, hatchling release is 50,000, a Vietnamese guide is 300,000 for half a day and 600,000 for a day, and a snorkel set is 70,000 a turn. Those guide prices sit outside the scenic fee.
Getting there and around
The park office is on đường Ma Thiên Lãnh, khu 3. Some walks start at the park headquarters.
Ông Đụng is about 3 km west of the town centre. A different 3 km leg runs past the park to the unfinished bridge. The Sở Rẫy trail takes almost an hour. The return past Ma Thiên Lãnh is about 25 minutes. A boat to Hòn Bảy Cạnh is about 45 minutes. A forest walk of nearly two hours, after a car or motorbike toward the airfield, is a separate route from the ride to a beach.
From Côn Sơn town
The office is on đường Ma Thiên Lãnh, khu 3.
From Côn Đảo airport
VVCS is 10 km northeast of town. Đầm Trầu is placed northwest of Côn Sơn, near Cỏ Ống. Taxi or hire car.
Hours and fees
- Hours
Day walks in daylight. Turtle nights, when booked, run 18:00–06:00.
- Closed
Check on arrival
- Admission
Adult 60,000 VND per person per route on routes 1–3, and 50,000 VND on routes 4–17, in force from 1 August 2022. Students 20,000. Children and pupils 10,000. The fee excludes ecotourism services. The 2017 guide and snorkel prices are extra. The prison ticket is separate. The boat fare is Check on arrival.
Also in Con Dao
Con Dao prison Nhà tù Côn Đảo
Prison camp system in town: walk the yards and the tiger cages across a morning or an afternoon.
Hang Duong cemetery Nghĩa trang Hàng Dương
Cemetery of about 20 hectares in town: walk the four grave zones after the camps.
Hon Bay Canh Hòn Bảy Cạnh
Turtle nesting islet: boat about 45 minutes from the town jetty, then walk the long beach and the hill.
Phi Yen temple An Sơn miếu
Temple for Phi Yến in town: offer incense from 07:00 to 19:00 on đường Hoàng Phi Yến.
Van Son Pagoda Vân Sơn tự
Pagoda on Núi Một, 1.6 km from town: walk the halls from 07:00 to 18:00.
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