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Registration open for Vietnam's Son Doong Cave tours in 2016

Xinhua, August 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

Authorities of central Quang Binh province has said the registration for tours of Son Doong cave, the world's largest cave, in 2016 is now open, limited to 500 visitors, Vietnam News Agency reported Friday.

The 2016 program, on sale on the website of Oxalis Adventure Tours, the sole operator allowed to run the tours since early August, offers five-day and four-night tours at the cost of 66 million Vietnamese dong (roughly 3,000 U.S. dollars) per person during the January-August period.

Each tour requires a team of 25 porters and cooks, a tour guide, two cave experts and two park rangers, local newspaper Ha Noi Moi (New Hanoi) reported.

Son Doong cave is more than 200 meters wide, 150 meters high, and approximately 9 km long. Within its caverns lie a jungle and a river, and the cave is large enough to fit a 40-storey skyscraper inside. The cave was classified as the largest cave in the world by the British Cave Research Association. Endi