Half-Day Exploring NangLong Cave

Enjoy a half-day caving adventure in Nanglong cave, which is located a short distance from the Rock Viewpoint. A walk up a streamway and then along a track in the forest leads you to the cave entrance after about 20 minutes.

Suspension bridges at the cave entrance guide you above the floor of the large entrance room to an upper-level passage. This upper passage goes through some narrow areas with cave formations such as stalactites and stalagmites, and along some ledges. Traversing this upper passage leads to an overlook into the streamway below.

You go part-way across another suspension bridge and then attach your vertical gear to a rope for abseiling down about 10 meters, landing in the streamway below.

The beginning of the streamway has a series of deep pools which are traversed by floating in an innertube, or swimming with a lifejacket on. After a while, as the water in the streamway becomes shallower, you wade through the stream and walk on the sandstone cobblestones which line the floor of the passage.

Eventually, you climb out of the streamway, into a passage that ascends away from the stream. This leads you to another entrance, where you exit the cave and return to the outside world.

• A half-day caving adventure in Nanglong cave, featuring suspension bridges, narrow passages with stalactites and stalagmites, abseiling down 10 meters, floating through deep pools on innertubes, and ascending into another entrance for the return journey.

• English Guide

• All gears for the activity

• Comfortable clothes and shoes that you won't be afraid of getting wet.

• Sunscreen

• Insect repellent

• Clothes for changing

• Refillable water bottle

​​​​​​Insurance 

Green Discovery Laos guarantees that all its buses, trucks and motorbikes and used by Green Discovery are insured as commercial passenger vehicle. Insurance coverage does not apply after the passengers have exited the vehicle. 

A private travel insurance is compulsory for all people travelling with Green Discovery Laos. The travel insurance must provide cover against personal accident, medical expenses, emergency repatriation and personal liability. We also advise to contract insurance coverage against cancellation, curtailment, loss of luggage and personal effects. 

The participants must be aware that during the course of the trip, certain risks and dangers may occur, including but not limited to hazards of travelling on a mountain bicycle, white water raft, kayak, climbing rocks, zip-lining or driving in a motor vehicle. It may also involve an accident or illness in remote places without appropriate facilities, or be caused by the forces of nature. The client agrees to assume all risks associated with the trip and agrees that no liability will be attached to the company or its outfitter, employees or agent, or to any member of the tour group. Green Discovery accepts no liability in respect of death, personal injury, illness or delay of the passenger, or for any loss or damage to the property of the participant during the course of the trip, however caused. 

Responsibility 

When booking on a Green Discovery Laos tour, the client understands that Green Discovery Laos runs adventure tours in Southeast Asia where the standards of accommodation, transport, hygiene, level of infrastructure development and medical facilities and telecommunication services are not necessarily the same as one may used to at home, or one would find on a ‘conventional holiday’. This type of holiday inherently involves a higher level of personal risk than a ‘conventional holiday’.

Green Discovery Laos, the Government of Laos and the Lao National Tourism Administration cannot accept any responsibility for accidents, injuries, death or loss of personnel effects. The client understands that during the course of the tour, certain events may occur, including, but not limited to, accident or illness in remote places without medical facilities, political instability and the forces of nature. The client agrees to assume all risks associated with the journey to the maximum extent permitted by law. 

Each client acknowledges that travel on a Green Discovery Laos tour requires a degree of flexibility and understands that the itinerary, accommodation and modes of transport are subject to change without prior notice due to local circumstances. Should Green Discovery Laos deem it advisable to amend an itinerary for any reason, it may do so by shortening, varying or re-routing any trip. These changes are binding and additional expenses will be charged to the client, if the reason for any alternation is outside control from Green Discovery Laos. 

While travelling with Green Discovery Laos, the client agrees to accept the authority of the leader or local operator at all time. He/She is aware that travel within a group may involve compromise to accommodate the diverse desires and physical abilities of group members. The client understands that Green Discovery Laos reserves the right to decline the participation of any person as a member of the group at any time. 

The client acknowledges that Green Discovery Laos contracts a network of companies, government agencies and individuals throughout the country to assist in the running of its tours. To the best of Green Discovery Laos’ knowledge, these third parties are qualified to perform the duties they are contracted to perform. However, GDL will not be held liable for any injury, damage, loss, delay or irregularity that may occur due to the behaviour of these third parties. 

Green Discovery Laos Group will not accept responsibility or liability for any traveller who contravenes any law or regulation of Lao P.D.R.

No employee, servant or agent of Green Discovery Laos has authority to alter these conditions. 

Cancellation Policy

• Cancellation 15 days or more prior to the tour: No charge applied.

• Cancellation less than 15 days prior to the tour: 50 % charges of all the services requested

• Cancellation less than 72 hours ( 3days ) prior to the tour: Full charge for all services requested will be applied

• If you have questions or encounter problems with the tour, please contact WhatsApp/Tel: +856 20 59 533 720

• The cave is both interesting and good for tourism because the cave stream is fed by water draining off of the sandstone, which is above and behind the limestone. This results in water flowing in the cave streamway throughout the year (instead of becoming dry in the dry season). The cobblestones seen on the floor of the cave streamway are comprised of sandstone, which are washed into the streamway of the limestone cave during wet season floods.

• When we went through the upper passage of the cave, one guide took us through a narrow area with stalactites that we had to be careful not to touch or damage. The other guide went another way with the innertubes and met up with us further along. It may be better to not take tour groups through the narrow area with the stalactites, to protect the cave.

• A maximum group size of 12, including 10 customers and 2 guides, is recommended for tours to this cave.

• The route through the cave is estimated to be about 2 km long (and took our group of 5 people 1 hour 40 minutes to go through the cave itself. A survey of the cave and drafting of a cave map may be desirable to do.