Phu Quoc & Con Dao Islands
Vietnam’s two beach islands sit off the southern coast and book-end the country’s sun-and-sand pages. Phu Quoc is the bigger and busier of the two: white-sand beaches fringed with coconut palms, fish-sauce factories you can tour, and the Hon Thom cable car — the world’s longest over-sea gondola, an eight-kilometre arc over turquoise water between tropical islands. Con Dao, further east in the South China Sea, is the antidote: a quiet archipelago of crescent beaches backed by jungle-covered hills, with sea-turtle nesting beaches and some of Vietnam’s clearest diving water in the national park around it. Both are reached by short flights from Saigon, and both reward at least three nights.
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