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<p>6 days 5 nights journey to conquer the world's largest automatic cave with diverse landscapes and terrain.</p>
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<p>Son Doong Expedition Tour was put into operation for adventure tourism in Vietnam since August 2013 and immediately became an attractive adventure tourism destination in Vietnam for exploration enthusiasts around the world. In 2014, National Geographic UK organized the Son Doong Expedition Tour as the world's most prestigious adventure tour. In 2019, the UK's Dave TV channel also voted the Son Doong Cave Tour 5th out of the 20 greatest adventures on the planet. In 2017, the UK's Daily Mail voted Son Doong Cave as the cave with the most impressive fire site in the world.</p>
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<p>Exploring Son Doong is a journey to discover the majestic stalactites, rivers, sinkholes or even a forest growing right inside Son Doong Cave with poisonous creatures; the opportunity to admire the sunlight throughout the cave and conquer the 90m high Vietnam Wall.</p>
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<p>Son Doong Cave was discovered by Mr. Ho Khanh - a Phong Nha ranger in 1990 and surveyed by the British - Vietnamese Cave Association in 2009-2010. Son Doong Cave was announced by an adventurous research team and National Geographic magazine as the world's largest natural limestone cave in 2009. In 2010, National Geographic TV channel continued to affirm Son Doong as the world's largest cave with a volume of 38.5 m3. On November 26, 2023, Son Doong Cave, En Cave and Va Cave were featured in Episode 6 - EXTREMES of the BBC's Planet Earth III documentary series.</p>
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<p>The world's largest natural cave has been restored with landscapes and terrain that change every day.</p>
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<p>The cave is so large that it has its own weather system inside the cave, with clouds, fog and different temperatures outside.</p>
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<p>Explore the unique primeval forest inside the cave.</p>
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<p>Explore En Cave, where Peter Pan - Neverland was filmed and where ABC News broadcast Good Morning America live to the US in 2015. Learn more about the En Cave tour. →<br>The beautiful campsites are located inside the vast cave dome but also have enough light from outside the mud puddle. If you are lucky, you will witness the sunlight shining deep into your heart, making your whole heart light up.</p>
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<p>Visit Doong village, a Bru Van Kieu ethnic village living in isolation in the primeval forest.</p>
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<p>Each tour includes: 10 adventure tourists, 1 cave safety expert, 1 professional tour guide, 6 safety assistants, 2 chefs, 17 porters, food, firefighting equipment and 1 ranger accompanying the group.</p>
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<p>Note: This tour is organized in a remote, dangerous area with complex terrain, so it requires tourists to have a suitable physical condition.</p>
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<p>When registering for a tour, you need to read the travel skills carefully, fill in the tour booking information honestly about your experience and health.</p>
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<p>If customers register for a group tour, please send the tour content to the group and ask each person to do the same as above. Oxalis's booking system allows each person in the group to fill in their personal information, avoiding omissions or errors when filling in information for each other. Read more about the Adventure Level of the Son Doong Cave Expedition tour.</p>
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<p>As soon as you register for the Son Doong cave exploration tour, you will be advised and supported to plan the most reasonable arrival and departure.</p>
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<p>You need to be in Dong Hoi no later than 15:00 on this day. Oxalis staff will pick you up at Dong Hoi train station/airport and take you to Commander Lodge hotel in Phong Nha.</p>
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<p>Around 17:30 - 18:00, you will meet the safety expert, tour guide and other members of the group at the Oxalis Phong Nha office. At this time, you will be informed of safety information as well as receive equipment for the journey before starting to explore Son Doong. The safety information briefing is mandatory before conquering Son Doong. Anyone who does not attend the safety briefing may be refused to join the Son Doong tour and will not be refunded the cost paid. After the safety regulations are disseminated, visitors are required to read carefully and sign the Waiver Form to join the tour.</p>
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<p>When participating in the safety briefing, visitors are requested to bring trekking shoes and backpacks to the safety briefing so that Oxalis experts can check the quality of the shoes, the grip of the soles to see if it is suitable for the tour's characteristics, and check if the backpack size is large enough to hold the necessary items on the road.</p>
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<p>After the safety briefing, the group, the safety experts, and the tour guides will have dinner at Oxalis Home. This is the time for the group members to get to know each other before participating in a long journey.</p>
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<p>After dinner, the group will return to the hotel to rest and prepare for the next day's trekking. Before returning to the hotel, Oxalis will also provide helmets and dry bags for you to pack your luggage so that the porters can carry it to the campsite the next morning.</p>
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