Six Senses Con Dao, Vietnam

Where is it? Six Senses is on the tiny Vietnamese island of Con Son, the only inhabited island of the Con Dao archipelago which lies off the country’s south coast. It’s only a 45-minute flight from Ho Chi Minh City but its remote and undeveloped landscape makes it feel like you’ve travelled much further. Protected for decades as a national park, there’s pristine white sand beaches – including the spectacular one that Six Senses sits on – jungle-covered mountains, and a sea brimming with marine life such as turtles and barracudas. Despite its natural rugged beauty, the island harbours a dark past when it was home to many French-run prisons that interred independence fighters before and during the Vietnam war. The crumbling old prison buildings still remain dotted around Con Son town and can be visited along with a cemetery built for the victims. Style There’s no central building or lobby to Six Senses Con Dao. Instead, at the entrance is a collection of small wooden buildings designed to resemble a classic Vietnamese fishing village, albeit quite a luxurious one. Here you’ll find a bar with leather swings for seats, a boutique shop, and one of the property’s two restaurants,… Read full this story

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