All 1,000 slots for adventure tours to Son Doong, the world's largest cave, in 2022 have been fully booked by domestic tourists, mainly from Ho Chi Minh City and southern provinces.
The company that operates Son Doong tour also sell tickets for 2023 and so far there have been nearly 100 bookings, of which 80% are foreigners.
Since 2020, the price for a four-day expedition into Son Doong has been reduced to $2,500 per person from the previous $3,000 in an effort to stimulate tourism due to the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.
In the last two years, more than 10,000 Vietnamese tourists have visited Son Doong and other caves in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.
Son Doong opened to tourists in 2013. It comprises at least 150 individual caves, a dense subterranean jungle and several underground rivers.
Son Doong comprises of at least 150 individual caves, an underground jungle and several underground rivers.
Son Doong is known not only as the largest cave in the world, with its unique beauty and structure, but also the one with the highest difficulty and danger among the caves discovered in Vietnam. This tour has brought about 50-65 billion VND in revenue each year./.
