This adventure tour offers the perfect balance between trekking, caving, climbing, squeezing and swimming, combined with enough time to enjoy two spectacular campsites over three-days and two-nights!

Our three-day trekking and caving adventure includes the very best wild caves of the region including Rat Cave, Ken Cave, Kim Cave,  Hung Ton Cave, Song Oxalis Cave and Tu Lan Cave!

It is a more in challenging experience compared to our Tu Lan Cave Encounter (2 days), as you’ll see more of the caves and go much further into the jungle!

Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime and one of the most talked about adventure experiences in Vietnam!

Note: Unexpected changes on itinerary might happen due to the weather conditions.

ITINERARY

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QUICK FACTS

• Operating: mid-November to mid-September

• Duration: 3 days/2 nights

• Adventure Level: Moderate (18 km) for physically active guests (swimming is necessary)

• Availability: Every Monday, Wednesday & Friday

• Small Group Tours: 8 - 12 pax (minimum 2 pax)

• Minimum Age: 16 years & above (Physically active 15 y/o with previous experiences will be considered)

• Tour Starts: 7:30 am - 8:00 am from any local hotel in Phong Nha

• Tour Ends: 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm at any local hotel in Phong Nha

• Price: VND 8,000,000/pax ($348 - price inclusive of VAT & environment/entrance fees)

DAY 1

Phong Nha - Tan Hoa - Rat Cave - Tu Lan

You will be picked up in Phong Nha between 7:30 am and 8:00 am at your hotel and driven to the little village of Tan Hoa for your initial safety briefing. Please be noted that Release Formneeds to be signed before you are getting to the jungle.

You’ll then set off across sweeping fields for 2.5 km to the Rao Nan River, making your way up to the short hill into Rat Cave.

Explore 300m in Rat Cave with spectacular calcite stalagmites, then make your way back out for a picnic lunch served next to the river in La Ken Valley.

You’ll then climb 150 m increasing in elevation up Lom Com Mountain.  Keep going through Flat Rock Peak and make your way to Mango Peak on Mango Mountain. After a quick break, the trek continues down into Tu Lan Valley (2 km).

You’ll finish your afternoon on a more relaxed note with swimming around the waterfall, followed by a BBQ dinner, and singing around the campfire until sleep overcomes you.

Note: A complimentary 6-bed dorm room at Oxalis Home is offered for our adventurers who arrive in Phong Nha early in the morning, few hours ahead of their booked tour departure. Here you can catch some shut eye and be prepared right before your tour departs. This dorm room comes with air-conditioning, comfortable bedding and is equipped with Wi-Fi as well. Please inform us in advance if you request to stay in this room!

DAY 2

Ken Cave – Tu Lan – Hang Kim – To Mo

The morning arrives with another full day of adventure. Shortly following breakfast comes a swim directly into Ken Cave.

After exploring this longest cave in Tu Lan Cave System, you will return back to camp for more waterfall swimming, a rest, and picnic lunch.

Post-lunch, it’s a 200 m swim into Tu Lan Cave, followed by a 1.5 km trek to Hang Kim where the cave exploration continues for 600m including 350m swims in varying lengths before adventuring 500 m through To Mo Valley to the To Mo Cave campsite.

Enjoy another beautifully prepared dinner, and camping within the graceful To Mo Valley.

DAY 3

To Mo - Song Oxalis Cave - Hung Ton - Tan Hoa - Phong Nha

The last day continues to exude adventure and a good balance between trekking and swimming. At 8AM, after breakfast, you and the team will explore Song Oxalis Cave – a marvelous creature of Tu Lan Cave System. After that, you will get back to the campsite and enjoy some snacks before getting back on the journey. The guide then leads the team to trek and swim 100 m upstream past the waterfall and through Hung Ton Cave via the exit of the cave. Investigation of the dry passage leads to a 15 m ladder climb up to the entrance of Hung Ton.

Early afternoon holds the return trip across Rao Nan River, the beautiful fields and back to Tan Hoa (2.5 km), where a cold drink will be calling your name. Showers are available for those who would like to clean up and change. The tour returns to Phong Nha by 5:30 pm.

OXALIS ADVENTURE LEVELS

LEVEL 3

Wild Tu Lan Cave Explorer

Please make sure that your health is suitable for these activities with ease.

• 17km jungle and mountain trekking, rocky terrain
• Elevation change up to 150m (between valley and top of mountain)
• 1 km swimming in caves (from 200m – 500m each cave)
• 4 km caving
• 3 days and 2 nights in jungle and caves
• Requirements:
  • Basic trekking experience
  • Swimming skills are required

Hang En Adventure Cave Camp

Hang En Adventure Cave Camp is easy-to-moderate for anyone who considers themselves physically fit and who participates in regular outdoor activities, and moderate-to-hard for anyone with limited trekking experience.  Please make sure that your health is suitable for these activities with ease before taking part in the tour.

• 22 km jungle and mountain trekking, rocky terrain
• Multiple river crossings: 30 times (knee deep, 10 – 50 m wide river)
• Elevation change up to 400 m (between road and valleys)
• 4 km caving
• 2 days and 1 night in jungle and caves

Hang Tien 1-day Discovery

Please make sure that your health is suitable for these activities with ease:

• 8 km jungle and mountain trekking, rocky terrain
• 3 km caving
• Requirements:
  • Basic trekking experience

Oxalis Adventure Tours staff (cave expert or guide) reserves the right to decline, accept or retain any person as a member of any party at any time without compensation or refund due to safety issue.

WE WILL PROVIDE

• Camping gear: tent, camp light, sleeping bag, pillow, mattresses
• Caving & safety gear: caving helmet, caving headlight, life jacket, gloves
• Light PVC backpack (if you do not want to take your own, as it will get wet)
• Semi dry bag (for clothing and personal belongings excl. electronics) for inside the (light PVC) backpack
• Basic canvas trekking boots (only if you do not have your own pair) sizes 36 – 46
• Meals: picnic lunches (day 1, 2 & 3), breakfast (days 2 & 3), dinner (day 1 & 2)
• Professional English-speaking tour guide and guide safety assistant
• Porter team to carry all camping gear and prepare all meals
• Shared dry box for phones and small cameras (20cm x 15cm or 22cm x 20cm and limited availability for larger cameras)
• Water filter and purifier (used only by guide and porters), and water bottle
• Basic camping facilities with eco-friendly compost toilet using western toilet seat
• First Aid Kit and Medical Rescue Equipment (application by guides and porters only
• Secure Storage Facility at Oxalis Headquarters to store all luggage you will not be taking on the trek

YOU WILL NEED

• 2 long (easy to dry) pants and 2 long sleeved shirt to wear during the trek (quick dry)
• 1-2 pair of short and t-shirt to wear at campsite and swim suit
• 1 pair of good-gripping and non-waterproof trekking boots/shoes (if you prefer your own comfortable pair)
• 1 pair of flip flop (sandals) for campsite
• 1 medium size towel
• 2-3 pairs of calf length densely woven socks (not ankle socks!)
• Personal items: mosquito repellent, sunglasses, hat, camera, underwears, toiletries

PRICING AND AVAILABILITY

• This tour is operated from mid-Nov to mid-Sep (closed from mid-Sep to mid-Nov).
• Maximum is 12 participants per booking
• You will pay in Vietnam Dong. The tour price is about US$348 as an estimation and could be affected by the foreign exchange rate.