Exploring the longest lavatube cave in South-East Asia

3 Days

Located at an average elevation of 600-700m above sea level, Dak Nong UNESCO Global Geopark covers an area of 4,760km2of Dak Nong Province in Vietnam’s Central Highlands.Being a piece of the ancient Gondwana supercontinent, from about 200-165 Ma ago (Early-Middle Jurassic), the Geopark’s area had deeply submerged into a passive continent marginal sea very rich in ammonites and bivalves.

In the North-east of Daknong Geopark, there is a spectacular geological area called volcano and lavatube system. With a single inactive volcano, it created a mass system of lavatube, also called pyroduct with total 50 caves. But, C7 is the most worthy cave to discover. This is the longest pyroduct of whole SE Asia and as such an outstanding geoheritage site. The cave is SE-NW-directed and has one singular, 11 m deeproof collapse which requires rope (or a cable ladder) to descent and 1067m in length . The collapse hole is scenic due to its vegetation growing at the boulder cone below. The roof collapse does not segment the pyroduct as the collapsed part of the ceiling does not comprise the entire width of the cave passage below.

Most of the galleries in C7 Cave are of walking size. However, towards their end most passages tend to become low and flatten out.

In able to register to this trip, you need to qualified our climbing course in Ho Chi Minh city or prove us your skill by any certificates or experiences. Children can only take a part of the whole trip.

Overview

Daknong Geopark located in Central Highland, 220km away from Ho Chi Minh. The volcanic area is furthermore 90km from the center of the province and easy to access.

This trip brings you to the heart of volcanic assemble, including the volcano, lava field, and lava tube cave.

Depart from Ho Chi Minh in the early morning, we will reach DakNong at noon, let's spend time to discover the heart of coffee region, the most famous and flavor product of Highland. In 1940s, French has first brought coffee here to plant after discovered the high nutrition of basalt soil. We will stay in Gia Nghia city, the capital of Daknong Province.

Departing early from Gia Nghia, the volcano is 100km away and we have many things to discover during the route: "Rhapsody of fire and water" by Daknong Unesco Geopark Geopark with many geological sites and cultural heritages. In the early afternoon, we will reach volcano and ready for an easy hiking trail to the peak of the volcano, also a walk to visit one of the most spectacular lava tube cave in this area. At late afternoon, we will go back to the town and stay at hotel.

Day 3 :
Cave day

Departing early from hotel, we will take a short walk to C7 lava tube cave, the longest volcanic cave of South-east Asia. Descendent by rope and special equipment to enter this cave, you shall visit the best cave ever with much valuable scientific knowledge. Our guide will explain the formation and also other heritages of the whole system.

At noon, we start to go back to Ho Chi Minh along the route "Wind of Change Concerto" by Daknong Unesco Global Geopark and visit other heritages of this region.

We will arrive in Ho Chi Minh at 22:00.

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Exploring the longest lavatube cave in South-East Asia