
Hon Tai
Con Dao · Vietnam
Hon Tai is Con Dao's premier reef site — a small island surrounded by healthy hard coral gardens running from 5 to 25 meters, with resident hawksbill turtles, prolific reef fish, and the occasional dugong sighting in the seagrass meadows adjacent to the reef. The site exemplifies why Con Dao National Park is considered Vietnam's most intact marine ecosystem, with table corals and staghorn formations rarely seen in comparable condition elsewhere in the South China Sea. Early morning dives here consistently produce the park's most diverse reef fish counts.
Conditions
Depth
5 to 25 m
Open water and up
Current
Can be moderate
Can pick up on the edge
Visibility
10 to 20 m
Clearest in the calm season
Water
27 to 30°C
3mm wetsuit
Your chances of seeing each animal
Hawksbill Sea TurtleCritically endangered
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
Mantis Shrimp
Sometimes
About 1 in 3 dives
DugongVulnerable
Rare
Now and then
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