Côn Đảo, Vietnam
The Con Dau islands consist of 16 islands off the south coast of Vietnam. We are staying on the largest, Con Son, which feels like a village even though the streets are laid out in neat blocks. It was colonised by the French in the 1800s and has wide tree lined boulevards and old colonial houses, and feels like a tropical paradise with its turquoise tea, tropical forest covered hills and utterly deserted white sands.
We had no idea of it's gruesome past, until s...