Hon Thom
The name comes from the pineapple trees that once covered the island, sweetening the air for passing fishermen. That era is mostly gone now, replaced by a cable car that stretches nearly eight kilometres across open water — the longest three-rope sea crossing of its kind on earth — and a water park that opened in 2019 with six themed zones and more than twenty slides.
Hon Thom sits at the southern tip of Phu Quoc, about thirty kilometres from the city centre, and the fifteen-minute aerial crossing above the An Thoi archipelago is its own argument for coming. The island below the cables is small, the water around it clear, and the coral park offshore claims over 250 species.
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People who come back tend to book the first cable car of the morning — 9 AM from An Thoi Station — before the heat peaks and the queues form. The Mediterranean stonework of the departure station is worth a slow look before you board. On the Hon Thom side, the Koi ponds near the arrival hall are a quieter place to regroup than anywhere near the water park.
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How Hon Thom came to be
Before any infrastructure arrived, Hon Thom was a small fishing commune, its identity shaped by the pineapple groves that gave it its name. Around 1988, Thai traders began making the crossing to buy seafood, and a rough, spontaneous port grew from those exchanges — not planned, just used.
The transformation accelerated sharply in February 2018 when the Hon Thom Cable Car opened, engineered by Austrian firm Doppelmayr and immediately recognised by Guinness for its 7,899.9-metre span across the sea. Aquatopia Water Park followed in late 2019. What had been largely untouched became, within a decade, one of southern Vietnam's more ambitious ecotourism projects.
Who and what shaped it
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When to go
December through March is the window most worth targeting: daytime temperatures sit between 25 and 30°C, rainfall is minimal, and the Gulf of Thailand is calm enough for snorkelling around the coral park. From May through October the southwest monsoon brings heavy afternoon downpours and humidity that can sit at 85 to 90 percent, though mornings often stay clear and the air after a storm is noticeably fresh.
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