The next day I went to the daily 9:00am hostel catch up. Here they give a bit of history about the area and then organise the groups that want to go see the Thong Na caves, these are accessed by boat that about about a 10 minute walk from the hostel. There are potentially two caves to go too and you join the group depending if you want to go to just the Phong Na cave or both, I chose to do both. We go in groups as you pay for the boat trip and it takes up to a dozen people, so the more people on the boat the less you pay for the trip.

These caves were impressive, but no where near the scale of Paradise Cave - however the boat trip was fun, the cave were different as Phong Nha you take a boat into it and then on return trip they drop you off half way and you walk your way out through an offshoot cave.

After getting back to town we all went for some lunch and then I went for a walk for about 45 minutes to a cafe run by the local man who found the cave which is officially the biggest cave in the world. Unfortunately there is a two year waiting list to get into that cave where you spend a week inside of it and cost US$3000. It was quite fun walking through the town, the cave have only been open to tourist for a few years and it seems to still be a novelty for the locals to say hello and all the kids come up and give you high fives.

Once back at the hostel I had some dinner and a few beers while I waited for the 9:30pm night bus to Hoi An, this would arrive there at about 6am. I have got good at sleeping on the sleeper buses and got a good nights sleep.