Hang Son Doong tour 42

Green beetle on blue plastic

Another week another tour, always fun, always different!

Hang Son Doong entrance passage

Weather has been good and when we met the group coming out we were told that the lake had finally gone.

Collection buckets

No dramas with this tour until we got to the entrance to Hang Son Doong, where the heavens opened. We had a massive thunderstorm with heavy rain, every bucket available was set to rain collection as this saves carrying the water up the entrance climbs, no easy task.

Where's the lake gone?

The rain does seem to help with visibility in the cave, so when we finally got to the entrance we could see clearly into the cave, quite a rare sight as there is normally some mist present.

Hope and vision

When we got to the end of the cave, there was no lake (as expected), so it was walking in the muddy trenches, surprisingly always appreciated by the customers!

Quite big passage here as well

We had missed some photo opportunities on the way in, but we managed to take some pictures on the way out, including the one below of the second river crossing.

The second river crossing