Maison du Vietnam Resort & Spa, Phu Quoc

This historic site today is not large, located on the main area of the old lao house, which includes a two-story exhibit House and an outdoor display of original artifacts and almost remains in place compared to the original. The coconut tree house was recognized as a historical monument in 1996 and began to open its doors to visitors from there. If you want to have specific insights and deeper feelings about this Labor house, you can read the history of the writer Chu Lai, when the suffering here has entered the literature in a genuine and emotional way.

History of Phu Quoc prison

In French times, the lao house was called The Coconut Tree base, covering an area of about 40 hectares, including four zones A, B, C, D, used to detain anti-French people. The Coconut Tree base was officially operational in June 1953 to July 1954 and was discontinued (when prisoners of war were returned). – In 1956, the Saigon government renovated the old "coconut tree" to establish the camp "training coconut tree" to detain communist prisoners. In 1967, the Communist prisoner of war camp was built again. It is the largest detention center of the Saigon government in South Vietnam, holding nearly 40,000 prisoners, including 4,000 who died there. – In 1972, the detention center has all 12 zones numbered from Zone 1 to zone 12, each of which is divided into several subdivisions, usually about 4 small subdivisions in 1 large zone. Each detention center is capable of accommodating about 3,000 prisoners, of which one subdivision contains 950 prisoners. The B2 division is dedicated to detaining prisoner officers of the highest rank of Colonel. The Prisoner of war camp was guarded by 3 battalions (7, 8, 12). Surrounded by each building is the elite layer of barbed Zinc Fence 10-15 layer of Ken thick, dense electric bulbs. Besides the guards apparatus, at the highest of the four battalions of guards equipped with full weapons and maneuvering means, guards, day and night scouting, there is always a naval squadron scouting around the outer sea. – At the end of 1972, the labor house built another zone 13, 14. By the beginning of 1973, the Paris agreement was signed, the prisoners of the two sides were returned, so the prison was no longer active. On that day, the prison was almost deserted, only the vast meadow left with a few crooked cement pillars and patchy brick foundation, far away some new houses sprang up. In 1996, the coconut tree house was recognized as a National Historic Site and has been restored to welcome visitors.

– – On 17-04-2009, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism decided to invest more than 19 billion VND to renovate, embellish and promote the value of the coconut tree lao house to expand the exhibit of artifacts, meet the needs of visiting, understanding the history and ICO of domestic and foreign visitors when visiting Phu Quoc. Accordingly, the state will embellish and complete and put into service the following categories: zone B2, gate of the 7th Battalion, House and gate of the command Board of the prison camp... Kien Giang Department of Culture – Sports – Tourism as the investor to embellish and restore this historic site.

Each year, the historic site of this prison welcomes thousands and thousands of visitors to visit and find out. They were young people who came to learn about what had passed in the past, to understand the pain that his father had suffered to get today; they may also be old men, former prisoners of old who returned to visit where they had once sent back some blood and flesh, and where their former comrades might have fallen and never be able to return, and they may also be foreign travelers who came to better understand a painful time for a resilient nation that had triumphed over the world's leading powers to protect their nation's independence,…

During the years of resistance against the invaders, the prison was a school for soldiers to train their qualities and will to fight bravely, and today it is a place to preserve valuable information and images of a painful past that heroically educates the younger generation. If you have the opportunity to come to Phu Quoc, please join Maison Du Vietnam to visit and learn about this famous and special monument.