Cave · Quảng Trị
Phong Nha Cave
Phong Nha Cave is an underground-river show cave in Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng National Park, Quảng Trị, entered by boat from the Son River.
4 km in a straight line
Vietnam•Town
Phong Nha
Phong Nha is a village in Quảng Trị and the commune of the same name where the Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng National Park management board has its address; Vietnam's national tourism site calls it a village and lists places to stay and eat in Phong Nha town. XTOUR uses it as the base for the national park and its caves, which it maps as separate places reached from Phong Nha.
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Vietnam
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Town
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Cave · Quảng Trị
Paradise Cave (Thiên Đường)
Paradise Cave (Động Thiên Đường) is a dry show cave in the ecological-restoration zone of Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng National Park, Quảng Trị, run by a concessionaire with a wooden stairway inside.
13 km in a straight line
Cave · Quảng Trị
Sơn Đoòng Cave
Sơn Đoòng Cave is a cave deep in the core zone of Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng National Park, visited on multi-day expeditions that, according to the park, Oxalis Adventure has run exclusively since 2013.
17 km in a straight line
Park · Quảng Trị
Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng National Park
Phong Nha–Kẻ Bàng National Park is a national park of limestone karst, forest and caves in Quảng Trị province, established in 2001 and managed by a board based in Phong Nha commune.
24 km in a straight line
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Travel Guide01
Champa and the Cham towers explained
Champa was a kingdom of the central Vietnamese coast whose kings built brick temple towers to Shiva from the 4th century onwards; Mỹ Sơn, inland from Hội An, was its chief religious centre. This article explains what the towers are and what they were for, where the official pages XTOUR has read place Champa sites, and how the living Chăm pottery craft that UNESCO lists today fits beside them.
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Travel Guide02
Phong Nha – Kẻ Bàng caves and routes, as the national park lists them
Phong Nha – Kẻ Bàng National Park sorts its visits into cave tourism, eco and adventure trips, and history routes, and names who runs each one. This guide sets out that list as the park's own pages give it: which caves are open as general visits, which are multi-day expeditions run by licensed companies, what the park says about UNESCO, and where its pages disagree.
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Travel Guide03
Vietnam's 2025 province mergers: why heritage sites changed their addresses
In 2025 Vietnam cut its provinces to 34 and moved to two levels of local government, so heritage sites now give addresses that look wrong next to older pages: Hội An in Đà Nẵng, Phong Nha in Quảng Trị, wards where there used to be districts. This article shows what the official pages say, old and new, and what XTOUR does and does not infer from them.
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Travel Guide04
Vietnam travel guide: where to base yourself
XTOUR plans Vietnam around the cities and towns you sleep in: Hanoi in the north, Hue and Hoi An or Da Nang in the centre, Ho Chi Minh City in the south, with Ha Long, Phong Nha and the Ninh Binh sites reached from a base. This guide says what each base is for, which sites linked to a base lie outside it, where official pages still use pre-2025 place names, and which XTOUR guide takes over.
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Travel Guide05
Vietnam's World Heritage sites: what XTOUR can source from official pages
UNESCO's own list pages refused XTOUR's requests, so this article is built from what each site's managing body and the Thăng Long heritage centre say about recognition. It covers seven properties with readable official pages, names the ones XTOUR could not source, and notes where official pages disagree.
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Destination information last verified: October 11, 2026
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