Itinerary
Day 1: Phong Nha – Nuoc Nut – Va Cave (Jungle Camp) (L/D)
Morning activities:
Leave your hotel in Phong Nha from 8.00 am with our guide and driver to our office. From here as every tour discover the cave system, you will collect your gear, listen to a tour briefing. Also, you need to sign our Release Form before driving 45 minutes through the National Park to the trailhead.
Next, you will enter the jungle and hike to the entrance of Hang Nuoc Nut. Here, you put on your Petzl helmets and Hope Technology 1500 lumen headlamps. Once you go inside the low opening, the cave enlarges dramatically and you explore the high-level series with excellent photographic opportunities.
Have a picnic lunch with ice cold drinks provided before setting off in the cave for around 2 km. Factually, this is also the time and chance to enjoy the beautiful formations, enormous passage, an underground river. No better way to get the chance to shoot many beautiful photographs.
Afternoon & evening activities:
This afternoon you leave the cave and continue your trek on a jungle path over tough and difficult terrain road. Once, you reach the jungle campsite at the base of huge cliffs next to the entrance of Hang Va, it makes you impressive. Then, you set up the camp and enjoy and tea/coffee with a delicious dinner. How wonderful feeling it is when you overnight in a true jungle camp! You can get a great experience and have a campfire as well as listen to the jungle noises.
Day 2: Hang Va – Phong Nha (B/L)
Morning activities:
This morning is the highlight of your adventure trip. After breakfast, you will have the experience of this fantastic cave of Hang Va. To conquer this cave, you will climb down the steep entrance of Hang Va. The path is quite slippery, so move slowly and with care.
In addition, you will have a rope with you to make sure the safe to clip into with a harness. You will continue to wear the harness at all times inside Hang Va Cave.
Next, you have a swim in a downstream pool inside Hang Va heading upstream if time allows. Furthermore, you will walk most of the time in water flowing through the river passage, climb up and down, and squeeze between the rocks. The water level of the river passage can be as high as chest level, so be ready to be wet for about 4 hours.
You will need to use the harness again to carefully climb up to the high-level passage at the end of wet walking. Get the amazing sceneries with this high-level area because of its stunning formations are really rare throughout the world. For photo lovers, you will have a lot of time to take beautiful images with the support of Hope technology and extra lights designed specifically for photography in Hang Va Cave.
After that, you will head back to the camp and enjoy lunch.
Afternoon activities:
This afternoon, you walk back to the road by a different route to the pick-up point. Our driver will take you back to your hotel in Phong Nha. You reach the back hotel at around 17.00 pm. Say goodbye our driver and guide and continue your journey at other beautiful sights in Vietnam. Thank you very much.
Inclusion
– Caving & safety gear: caving helmet, caving headlight, gloves, harness
– Camping gear: tent(with mosquito net), camp light, sleeping bag, mattresses & pillow
– Semi-dry bag (for clothing and personal belongings excl. electronics) for inside your backpack
– Basic canvas trekking boots (only if you do not have your own pair) sizes 36 - 46
– Meals: picnic lunches, BBQ dinner (day 1), breakfast (day 2)
– Professional English-speaking tour guide and guide safety assistant
– Porter team to carry all camping gear and prepare 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)
– 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)
Exclusion
– Tips & Personal Expenses
– Travel/Health Insurance
– Other services