Caves Caves Caves!

Hello fans! Steve here trying this blogging thing out! Rach has been working hard so I thought I'd give it a whirl!

We had booked a tour to paradise cave which I had been pretty excited for,it is the biggest dry cave in southeast asia at 31 km+ some spots 150m high and 100m wide, there was two options you could do, a short hike through with all the tourists about 1km or a 7 km full day trek inside the pitch black cave, stopping and having lunch around the 5km mark. Obviously we wanted to do the 7km option.
off to the tour Agency we go,we book a package deal and get a bus there(with a guy holding a sign up for us when we arrive to take us to the hotel), hotel for the night, cave tour, then a sleeping bus to hanoi, now I wanted to make sure we got the extended tour so  after showing her the online brochure of the 7km tour, asking about 30 times and being reassured about 40 times, it got to the point where she asked me to stop asking I figured it was good.
So that afternoon we get on the bus head to hue for the night, we arrive a few hours later and no one is waiting for us, so we wait about ten minutes and decide no ones coming, we start walking towards the hotel and about 5 minutes later this really frantic guy comes zooming by on his motorbike  yelling and pulling papers out of his pocket and he comes to us and turns out he just couldn't find the bus station, which sounds silly but they seem to just drop you off wherever they want here, usually a few km from the bus station.
Anyways we get to the hotel, check in, get dinner, go to bed, pretty uneventful night (except for the rat that ran across the floor of the restaurant we ate at)
The next morning we get picked up at around 6 am and were told the cave is 4 hours away, but we would also stop at a famous christian church and have lunch and wouldn't arrive to the cave till around 12. Turns out I wasn't clear enough to the booking lady, and our trek turned into a golf cart ride from the van to and from the cave and a little peak into a massive cave.
The cave itself was pretty spectacular, you had to walk up 518 steps to the entrance and the entrance was no bigger then a doorway, when we got close though it felt like stepping into ac because of the cool air coming out of the cave which was really neat. My fist impression of entering was a jaw dropping wow, once through the little doorway the cave just opened up! It was absolutely huge, probably could have put westside (my highschool) and the water tower in there and still had room to fly a kyte and park the car. It was big, and every corner we turned it seemed to be just as big,  after about 10 minutes it turned into more of a tunnel instead of the taj mahal which was pretty sweet aswell, we followed the walkway for about a kilometer where they had lights lighting the place up and some parts were colourful lights which we both thought ruined it but what are you gonna do, it just made us wanna do the 7km trek more the time we reached the end, oh well though it wasn't all bad, we met a girl from germany who we hung out with for the day and she was on the bus to hanoi with us too, so it was nice to share some stories and kill time with her.
All and all day was a bit of a bummer but the cave was still pretty awesome, to hanoi we go!
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