Tien Son Dinh, the Fairy Mountain Peak of breathtaking scenery worth your visit in Phu Quoc island
Are you planning a trip to Phu Quoc island - Vietnam? You love natural landscapes & non - touristic places? Let's try your adventure hike to conquer Tien Son Dinh ( Fairy Mountain Peak) - one of the highest point in Phu Quoc island, where you can capture stunning scenery of forest, surrounding mountains, beachsides & sea.....Let's come & experience.....
Tien Son Dinh ( Fairy Mountain Summit) - Phu Quoc island
Tien Son Summit is a lesser known tourist attraction in Phu Quoc island not only to international travellers but also to local people. From this peak, you can have an impressive captivation of mountains & seaside in southern Phu Quoc island.
The view from the summit of Tien Son Dinh
For a long time, local people have called this summit Tien Son Dinh directly translated as Fairy Mountain Peak due to an old story.
The story told that there was a very gentle and kind old man who lived in a cave on the top of this mountain. He planted bananas in the forest & lived a life of a monk. Locals in the area rarely saw him coming down the mountain.If he needed food, he would carry a load of firewood down the mountain, left it there and returned. People would bring food and left it there and got firewood touse. He recieved whatever people exchange for and didn't care much about. People here did not know what his name was and they called him Mr. Dao Dun.
After a long time, people no longer saw Mr. Dun coming down the mountain. They immediately followed the trail to the cave, where they saw that Mr. Dao Dun had long died. They believed that he had become a fairy ---> That is the reason for the name of the peak.
In fact, his name was Tong Van Nam from Long Ho, Vinh Long. He went to the mountain to meditate and died there. Right at the top of this mountain there is a grave. It is said that before he died he built it himself so that after he died he would lie in it .
His son also went up this mountain to find his father's grave. He asked his family after his death to cremate and bring his ashes to be buried near Mr Dun's grave. Currently on the top of the mountain there are two tombs of Mr. Dun's father and son.
Trekking trails to conquer Tien Son Dinh - Phu Quoc
Tien Son Peak at 565 metters high is about 10km far from Phu Quoc city's center, you can easily get there by private car or motorbike. You just turn on google map & search for Tien Son Dinh Cafe, where you can send your vehicle & get some waters ready for 3 hour trek up & down ahead.
The entrance for the trekking route to Tien Son Dinh
From Tien Son Dinh cafe,you walk past the cafe to the back yard, which lies a patch of grassy farmland. You keep heading straight up into the jungle & see the signal to show you the entrance to go up.
The first part of the trail is quite easy with some ascends, then it comes with other trails which may make you confused & get lost if not following the right one ( we got that problem & could not find out the route to continue.Then we turned on google map & had to come back the T- junction, where we found the showing signal - the route recently covered by a big tree fell down, we just made a round turn over the fallen tree & got to the trails up & up).
Then the trails become steeper & steeper but with some wooden ladders, sticks & roping system done by locals, you can slowly do with effort to conquer the summit finally & be rewarded with wonderful view of surrounding mountains, valleys, seasides & Phu Quoc international airport.
Our trek to conquer Tien Son summit
Ideal time to visit Tien Son Dinh & Phu Quoc Island
Phu Quoc is the largest and most famous island for wonderful beach vacations in Vietnam.Being a tropical island near the equator and located in the Gulf of Thailand, Phu Quoc has quite different climatic features.The island has two seasons : dry & rainy seasons
The dry season lasts from November to May, the weather is dry, warm & blue sky, the waves are not too tense, which is ideal time for swimming on beautiful beaches or hiking aventure in Phu Quoc national park or trekking to conquer Tien Son peak.
Sunset in Phu Quoc island
The rainy season often comes between June and October, when the island receive the monsoon West - Southwest with high air huminity. Travelling to Phu Quoc island during this time, you may encounter sudden rains, strong winds, and sometimes typhoons ( July to September), which may lead to the cancellation of your flights or ferries connecting with this island.
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I hope you havent't forgot us. If you have I have included a photo of us in attach file.I promised to e-mail you when we get back. Sorry for the delay but we had so much shit to sort out when we've got back home.
Thanks very much for giving us a tour of Hanoi. Without you two, we would of missed a hell of a lot of Hanoi which we never had the time to explore.
When we were in the south, we came across a lot of English and Irish backpackers that were heading to Hanoi and we've recomended you and the taxi driver Binh to them. I hope they contact you two when they get to Hanoi and give you business.
So so much had changed since I left Vietnam. Some changes are positive and a lot of negatives but people link yourself and Binh will keep up the traditions.
I hope that you will get this e-mail. If you do please reply.
Since we've came home, I've had so many ideas about starting a business venture in Vietnam and and hoping that you might want to be be part of the it.
Alec (Hung)
Alec Hung & Challote from UK
Dear Ban,
Sorry for being late.
I tried to write you a letter several times, but I couldn't finish the letter. I don't know why.
I am still in winter vacation, so I have been very lazy, frankly speaking. And I miss you and the other good people I met in Vietnam. You cannot imagine how much it is!! As for our meeting, let's put it aside for my next trip, possibly that would be the coming August. At that time, we can have time to talk a lot about Vietnamese school system and other interesting things. Don't you think??
And I am so happy to know that you think my voice is tender in different songs... *^^*
By the way, how's it going with your new business? Is it going well? I'm sure you will be successful because you are quite ambitious and intelligent. You agree, Ban?? ^^
When my school starts, I cannot tell anything about Vietnam without talking about you to my students... I get impressed a lot, surely yu know that. Right?
I will attach the picture you took together in my next mail because my camera battery is out. Sorry about that!!
It's Saturday today. I wonder what you are doing at this moment in Vietnam when I am writing to you. Keep in touch often. OK?? ^^
Take care and be well & happy
Your friend,
Hwayoung Lee from Korea
Ms Hwayoung Lee from Korea
Hello Mr Ban, What a surprise to hear from you and a good one. yes I do remember you quite well....as Black Dan? Is this right? It has been 5 years since I was in your country. a long time, but I remember how bright and funny you were and also how polite!!! So, have you a family to look after now? A wife and some beautiful children? I hope all is well with you and you have plenty of work to do. I am taking a break at my work as it is Christmas time here and everything stops and family get together. I know you have TET around the corner and I wish you much success and good fortune for the next year. Which animal will it be next year for TET, I wonder? And which year you born in? I am still working with flowers. Iam known as a florist and my job keeps me pretty busy. I enjoy it very much as I love to make beautiful things from flowers and stones, dried things from Mother Nature and sometimes with man made stuff as well. It is quite funny that you emailed me at this time as I have been thinking of coming over to Vietnam alot lately and may do next year sometime. I missed out on a few places I would love to go ( Hoi Ann), and re visit some places I have been to last time. Are you still a guide? All the best.
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