Son Doong Exit

18th January.

This was a quick one day trip with Vietnamese TV and a 3D laser scanning crew, to finish off a TV programme and a 3D scan of the cave.

From the road it was an easy twenty minute walk down hill to a stream bed, then it was a steep uphill walk for forty minutes to a col then about fifteen minutes down the other side to the entrance to the cave, again, this was a very impressive spot with a strong breeze blowing into the cave. Just as we arrived it started raining so without any hesitation we climbed down the entrance slope and proceeded to the Great Wall of Vietnam, the dividing point of the cave, you can go no further without SRT kit.

Son Doong Exit

Once at the wall, the scanner people set up their equipment and started a series of scans to cover the entire section of cave back to the entrance, the film crew also started filming, with interviews of the scanner men, general shots of the cave and interviews with Deb (Limbert) as well as a section where Deb had to sketch the cave for Ruth and I, then we had to ask her some questions, this was repeated several times, filming from different angles (one camera!), so who knows, we could be TV stars!

Cave Pearls in Son Doong

The whole process was incredibly slow and by the time we got back to the entrance (Son Doong Exit) we were all freezing, so even though it was raining heavily it was good to get out of the cave for the march back to the road.

The end of the trip.