Chan Bo

Chan Bo lies on the coast around Vũng Tàu, near the sea approaches to the great rivers of southern Vietnam. The Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan passed a place called Chân Bồ on his voyage to Cambodia in 1296; it has been associated with this stretch of coast. Beyond it he described river mouths, sandbanks and shores thick with vegetation. The sheltered waters of Vũng Tàu later gave ships a place to anchor, and the cape became known to European sailors as Cape Saint Jacques.