Black pepper plantations in Phu Quoc and how to visit

Description and is it worth a visit

Black pepper plantations, as well as fish sauce factories, are one of the business cards of Phu Quoc and a place that is recommended to all first–time visitors to the island. Here you can see how the pride of the island is growing - pepper culture, and buy a fragrant spice. But, of course, you need to understand that this is not really a tourist attraction, but just a place where tourists are brought on their way to other attractions to buy something here..

There are several plantations on the island, and as a rule, they are located along the roads to attract attention and attract shopping. The plantations themselves are small, consisting of a dozen pepper bushes, but there are large ones with whole fields. However, an unassuming visitor will be interested in buying a bag of pepper rather than going into details of its cultivation and collection. In addition, the Russian tourist will not be particularly surprised by this. Therefore, the attraction is more like an amateur. Tourists are brought to the plantations as part of group excursions, but you can come on your own, however, they will not conduct an individual excursion for you.

In one of the shops at the factory, the cost of 250 gr. package of black pepper (peas) started from 70,000 VND (2.66 USD), 500 gr. package – from 200,000 VND (7.6 USD). Pepper can be bought both peas and ground, as well as a mixture of peppers. We have seen pepper cheaper in the local market.

Friends, we remind you that it is much more interesting to get acquainted with the sights in Phu Quoc with the help of excursions, and therefore we advise you to look at the options with online booking and reviews on these excursion aggregators:

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