Tourist attraction
Dau Go Cave
Bai Chay
Limestone grotto where legend says wooden stakes were hidden before a decisive naval ambush, its chambers shaped like pagodas and pillars.
This guide to Dau Go Cave in Ha Long follows the thirteenth-century legend of General Tran Hung Dao's men hiding ironwood stakes here before the Bach Dang River ambush that broke a Mongol fleet. It traces how French visitors who climbed the same steps centuries later renamed the cave the Grotto of Marvels, and the emperor who later had a poem to the bay carved beside its entrance. Listen for where that inscription still sits near the cave mouth.
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