Phong Nha Ke Bang is known as a national park, where has the longest, most beautiful caves in the world. This blog will share with you the most useful experience when coming here.
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The best time to visit Phong Nha
Quang Binh has two distinct seasons, based on which you can choose the most suitable time to visit Phong Nha Ke Bang:
From April to August is the dry season, the outside temperature is 36, 37 degrees but the cave temperature is only 20 – 21 degrees. At the same time the water in the shallow so tourists can visit all the caves here.
From September to March next year is the rainy season, river water rises up the cave entrance, tourist boats can not enter, especially Phong Nha cave. For Tien Son and Heaven Cave, you can still get into.
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How to get Phong Nha Ke Bang
To reach Phong Nha, you must first reach Dong Khoi City, Quang Binh Province.
To Quang Binh: From Hanoi or Saigon, you can take a flight to Dong Hoi Airport, or take a train, bus at a more economical cost.
From Dong Hoi city to Phong Nha Ke Bang: You can go by motorbike or taxi.
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Famous sites in Phong Nha Ke Bang
Phong Nha Ke Bang is the largest ancient tropical limestone in the world. Of which there are over 300 different small caves.
Phong Nha cave
Phong Nha cave is the most prominent cave here, about 8km long, mostly underground. The underground river in the Phong Nha cave is listed as the longest underground river in the world.
The temperature in the cave is always cooler than in the outside, so you can feel the warmth of this temperature change. In the cave, there are Bi Ky, Cau, Cung Dinh caves with colorful stalactites and stalactites.
Tien Son Cave
After visiting the Phong Nha cave, visitors often visit the dry cave called Tien Son cave. Phong Nha – Tien Son is a twins of creation. Phong Nha – Tien Son is a unified whole. Located at an altitude of about 200m in the Phong Nha cave, Tien Son cave has a length of 980m and is not shared with Phong Nha cave.
Set foot in Tien Son cave, you will feel as if you are entering the sky. Each place is a natural feat. Natural features suddenly caught, will continuously give you a feeling from amazed to fascinated and attractive. Therefore, it is said that Phong Nha is beautiful place of the Water Palace, where has King Thuy Qi, Tien Son is the shadow of the Jade Emperor and the gods.
Paradise cave
The Paradise cave is located at km 16 (about 4 km from the west side of Ho Chi Minh Road), from the Phong Nha cave, about 20 km further, in the heart of a limestone mountain at 191 m of Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park.
Paradise cave was dubbed the “palace inside the earth”. This is one of the most magnificent and magical wonders in the world. It is the longest dry cave in Asia. Thien Duong cave is 31.4 km in length, width varies from 30 to 100m, width is 150m and maximum height is 60m.
There are also many stalactites that have accumulated over thousands of years, forming many different shapes. This cave has many stalactites in shape more spectacular than the Phong Nha.
Dark Cave
This is a branch of the Phong Nha cave system, which is still quite primitive. The cave gate is about 20m width and 40m high. The total length of the cave is 5258m; the highest point is about 80m. At the cave entrance is the home of a sanctuary of Ha Tinh langurs (a kind of precious animal named in the Red Book of Vietnam), in the cave there are many stalactite shaped stalagmites of various shapes – the habitat of swift, bat. This cave is different from other caves, there are no lights so come here you have to carry a flashlight. The cave is located near a river so the stalactite here is covered with a mossy style, very characteristic.
En Cave
There is a total length of 1645m, across a mountain and into three caves, one in the middle of the mountain, two at the foot of the mountain (this is a rare feature in Vietnamese caves).
En Cave has features the Phong Nha or Heaven Cave can not have. There is a green river, light shining on, reflecting on the ceiling of the cave as more shimmering, fanciful scenery. At the top of the cave are stone niches, stalactite with beautiful shapes, this is also the residence of many swallows, and bats (due to the habitat of many swallow should be called new En Cave). The scenery here is beautiful, however, the road here is very difficult: total distance to walk up to 30km, including: 10km to the slope, 10km downhill, 10km to wade streams, forest ice. So to get to this cave, you have to exercise well.
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Suoi Nuoc Mooc Ecological Tourist Area
This resort still retains the unspoiled nature so the scenery is quite peaceful. There is a stream of water that is famous for clear water and green. You can paddle Kayak Stream to explore the beautiful scenery here
