Can Gio, a district of the Ho Chi Minh city, is about 20 miles from Saigon. The road is under construction (2008) and traffic is very bad at Khanh-Hoi which is a suburb of Saigon. You can avoid traffic by travelling to Can Gio by boat from Saigon harbor.

Can Gio has a huge Mangrove Biosphere Reserve, which has been recognized by the UNESCO, and is an eco-tourist site home to countless animal species.

If you love wildlife, you should visit Dao Khi, or Monkey Island, home to thousands of mischievous monkeys. Watch out – the monkeys are known to swipe the hats off of tourists’ heads and steal your foods!

Most of monkeys living at this island are long-tailed masquades (Macaca fascicularis). They live wildly in the mangrove forrest in Can Gio.