caves, caves, caves

So if there's one thing that I don't like...it's caves. But when presented with the choice of staying back at the farmstay all day while my friends visited 2 caves and a swimming hole...I couldn't resist. I was really quite nervous about my day of caving and even emailed my mom advice on what to do! In the end I made the right decision though because the caving adventure day was one of the coolest parts of my whole trip. The first cave we went to was Paradise Cave and it is the longest cave in the world. I really liked it for two reasons: 1. it was very cold (which greatly contrasted the outside weather that day) and 2. it was HUGE. There is not much cause for claustrophobia in a cave as big as this one. We walked into it about 1km and our mouths were on the floor the whole time because we just couldn't believe how massive it was. I was warned against going in the second cave because for the Dark Cave there is no path, you take off your shoes, walk along a sharp rocky ridge, and swim...all in complete darkness. But once again I asked myself, "when will I get the opportunity to swim in a pitch black cave in Vietnam again?"...never. So I headed into the cave and ended up loving it!