Ham Rong Cave

Ham Rong Cave

Ham Rong Cave is located right at the foot of Ham Rong mountain, Na Bu village, Tung Chung Pho commune, Muong Khuong district, Lao Cai City (now Muong Khuong town) nearly 2km from the district center. This is a large cave located in the heart of a limestone mountain. The reason it is called Ham Rong is because according to legends and folk tales, in the cave there is a very large dragon that often appears when the weather changes. Therefore, local people named that cave Ham Rong cave. Coming to Ham Rong cave, visitors will have the opportunity to admire the mysterious beauty amidst a vast mountainous area. The road to Ham Rong cave is quite convenient, visitors follow the Tung Lau stream to the main entrance to the cave. This stream curves all year round over each ravine, passes through caves, forming the "Pao Tung" waterfall - a wonderful landscape of the entire Muong Khuong region. Ham Rong cave complex includes 2 main caves connected to each other with a total length of about 750m. Ham Rong cave entrance is more than 6m wide and the cave arch is 5m high, so it is convenient for tourists to visit. The inside of the cave is divided into many small interconnected niches, about 10m deep to reach single dark-colored stalactites, continue up through a small hole - a place to receive natural light that shines deep into the cave. The strange shapes are: stalactites clinging to the cliffs with dome caves that look soft like climbing gourds. Going deeper into the cave, visitors will see shapes that look like goats eating. grass, shapes of birds in flight, they blend with the landscape shimmering under the lights. Suddenly before the visitors' eyes appeared a palace with the Emperor's crown dotted with sparkling jewels, then shapes resembling successive terraced fields. In the middle of the cave is a round cylindrical block with a head like a Buddha and a kind face, but its body is thorny and rough, clinging to each other like antennae, in some places it looks like a fairy chess board, like a princess's chamber. Lord... The deeper you go into the cave, the more you realize the splendid majesty with the variety of colors creating a poetic and lyrical beauty. Ham Rong Cave has great value in terms of tourism, geology, and aesthetics. Coming to the cave, visitors can not only admire the charming scenery of mountains, forests, natural rivers and streams, but also provide conditions for researchers in geography, soil and stratigraphy. Ham Rong is also a source of artistic inspiration for artists and photographers. Ham Rong Cave was recognized by the state as a National Scenic Monument according to Decision No. 15/QD-BVHTT dated April 14, 2003. SOURCE: Lao Cai Provincial People's Committee

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