Dau Go cave

Location: Located on the island of Dau Go right next to Thien Cung, of Ha Long Bay, Quang Ninh Province.
Features: shop starfish shape. Cave of about 8,000m2 with 3 compartments. The French call this cave des Merveilles laGrotte (Cave of Wonders).
Dau Go Cave, also known as Hidden Wood, shop starfish shaped large more than 20 meters from the sea. Bottom lower cave entrance 8m, as in the more narrow. In the cave there are many stalactites, stalagmites huge.

Previously many believe that the name Dau means factories and warehouses ironwood trees used to bury the Bach Dang river in the war against the Mongol invaders Century 13. But there are also people that is this solid unfounded.

Recently, people have built caves uplink with 90 ranks, with lights, souvenir shop. Repair work is completed on the day of 09.02.1999.

Standing on the wooden floor from the railing at the entrance of the cave looked down I could see most of the grotto with stalactites and deep niche. The first time with more than 20 meters high dome with stalactites hang down. Lower narrower second compartment only a little light shines. Prevent the expansion Tuesday dished out, at the end of the cave there is a clear water well, between the cave has a stone column covered with emulsion 20m higher. Some people see in it the image of a Buddha sitting high above looking down underneath a battle elephants, horses, lions and horsemen, swords, spear ... Near the entrance there is a stone tablet higher than 1m, the letters engraved on beer drought has blurred.

It has built a wooden corridor for tourists walked around the cave, up to 500m to the bottom of the cave lights. This approach has the advantage that little alter the natural structure of the cave. Besides beer with a Vietnamese saying: In the spring of Nham Tuat (1919) Emperor Khai Dinh and Paul Doumer French governors had sailed from baseline in Kiep Bac Giang and Hai Phong through the Ha Long. Emperor Khai Dinh did an ode to the beauty of this. In 1962, Uncle Ho visited Dau Go Cave.