The Son Doong Cave has a total length of nearly 9 km long and the volume is up to 38.5 million cubic metres, which makes this cave the largest natural ... More
The Son Doong Cave has a total length of nearly 9 km long and the volume is up to 38.5 million cubic metres, which makes this cave the largest natural cave on the planet. With this volume, Hang Son Doong is 5 times larger than Deer cave in Malaysia, which was said to be the largest natural cave ( before Hang Son Doong was discovered) with 9.5 million cubic metres of volume. However, what makes Son Doong special, recognized and well-known by the world is the unique hidden underground world inside the cave itself. It has many complex and giant stalactites (over 80m high), primaeval rain forests growing inside the cave, its own ecosystem, weather or a mysterious underground river that no explorer has yet discovered to the end of it. Many visitors admitted that the Hang Son Doong Cave is like another world, Ginger Zee from ABC News's - Good Morning America exclaimed that the sceneries in Son Doong were like those in the Avatar movie.
This amazing cave also houses an impressive ecosystem, inside the largest cave passage in the world. This huge and intricate cave system was created by the underground river, and filled with formations from the water that percolated down from a rainforest above. More of the highlights only found in this cave are:
Hope and Vision Passage
Underground river
Fossil passage
Doline 1 - Watch out for Dinosaurs
Doline 2 - Garden of Edam
Cave pearls
Passchendaele Passage
The Great Wall of Vietnam
The Son Doong Cave tour offers tourists a chance to venture deep into the heart of an underground realm that boasts colossal caverns, enchanting subterranean rivers, and mesmerizing rock formations.
- Only 1,000 tourists can experience the Son Doong Cave Vietnam tour a year.
- The Son Doong Cave tour costs $3,000 per person.
- Son Doong Cave tours come with different adventure levels to match your fitness abilities. Oxalis Adventure has made a scale to help you pick the right tour, in which there are 6 levels in total.
- The tour is not allowed around Sep.-Dec.(Rainy season)