Sung Sot Cave

This guide to Sung Sot Cave in Ha Long Bay opens with French explorers squeezing through a crack in the limestone in 1901 and stumbling into a chamber they named the Cave of Surprises, a name Vietnamese visitors had already given it for their own reasons. It walks the hundred stone steps up to the entrance and into a first room where dripping stone has been shaped by legend into a horse and sword, left behind by a local warrior hero. What waits beyond the narrow passage ahead is left for you to find.