Côn Đảo National Park Tourist Office

There is an official entrance (ticket booth with big National Park signage) that is not on the map about 250 North on the same road as the visor centre. You can buy tickets there at the booth and walk up to 3km out to a cave, beach and waterfall and marked stone paths. The cave is a small religious monument. There are 2 beaches and we only went to one (Bang Beach) which had nice looking water but was stoney with no real shade. The waterfall is weather dependent of course, it was completely dry when we went. It's very hot in the forest but we saw lots of wildlife: at least two giant black squirrels (look for them sleeping on horizontal branches), many other black squirrels (but not sure if these were the same, they had smaller tails and were full black), a monitor lizard (about 75cm in length), a troop of monkeys, and many others smaller lizards and birds (and possibly a smaller primate / mammal. We also unexpectedly encountered wild boar which scared the life of us. We heard them and then saw them scatter. At least 10 individuals with several youngsters. The group of monkeys that we encountered at the entrance became aggressive so best not to linger or access your backpacks around them. You can ride a scooter easily to the entrance either by going all the way around the island, or by cutting through from the town past the national park visit centre. The walk can be challenging in the heat and humidity. We were sweating buckets by the end of it. The descent to the beach and subsequent climb back up was hard work.