中文Phu Quoc Fingernail Island (Hon Xuong) – Phu Quoc Map – Phu Quoc Island Guide:
Come with Phu Quoc Island Guide in order to understand more about Phu Quoc Fingernail Island. Being located at the coordinate 9°55’03.6’’ North latitude, 104°01’25.6’’ East longitude, Hon Xuong or Southern Fingernail Island is located in the Northeast of Dam Ngang (Gam Ghi) Island corresponding to the North of Bom (Mong Tay) Island. This was a deserted island with a beautiful pristine beach before but now that pristine beauty no longer exists as well as being distorted because of the existence of made from cement and steel restaurant built by local people in order to meet high demand of hundreds of tourists daily. Nowadays, regardless of Dry or Rainy season, the island is always in noisy and smelly situation with a very crowded sea area right at the front because the appearance and existence of big wooden boats, especially apart of coral reefs here has been being heavily destroyed as they have built a wooden pier right on a coral reef spot whereas the 50 m long beach is too small to accommodate hundreds of tourist on the beach or for tourist to enjoy tranquil sea at easy and quite amid small boats constantly go in and out. In two photos below you can make a comparison between Southern Fingernail of 3 years ago and Fingernail at present. (Check out Phu Quoc weather in detail here)
The front of the small beach of Fingernail island, tourists have very small and not safe space to enjoy “the noisy” of the island.
A large noisy and crowded seafood restaurant with a greatly lack of hygiene or a poor standards of food hygiene and light for tourist behind the beach
Phu Quoc Fingernail Island (Hon Xuong) – Geography – Phu Quoc Island Guide – Phu Quoc Map:
Spot A1 is the location of the beach of Southern Fingernail (Hon Xuong) Island as we mentioned above. And beyond the island from the side of A1 is spot A2, it is impossible to visit A2 during Dry season as the influence of Northeast monsoon. Being able to visit spot A2 in Rainy season but it will be full of trash and it is a poor coral area and it is also full of boats as they can reach the other side by a short lane through the forest connecting spots A1 and A2.
Phu Quoc Fingernail Island (Hon Xuong) – Coral reefs – Things to do in Phu Quoc:
Among spots A1, A2, A3 then A3 has the largest area of coral reef but to be honest then it has really poor colorful coral reefs or a lot of corals have been dying, cannot put the existential diversity of the coral reefs here in comparison with those of other island so from our point of view it would not really interesting to join any Phu Quoc Fingernail Island Tour, any tour related to Phu Quoc Fingernail Island