Most of this day was just relaxing and prepping for the Tu Lan cave expedition. It’s a 4 day, 3 night, 34 kilometer hike going through multiple caves and camping out in the jungle coordinated by Oxalis. I’ve never done anything in my life remotely like this, and I was super pumped. The briefing wasn’t until 5:30 pm, so I had the afternoon to hang out until then. So I went on a short muddy bike ride through Phong Nha, chilled by the pool, took a nap, and then met up with my group and tour guide at 5:30pm.

There would be 3 of us tourists, 2 tour guides, 1 expert caver, and 5 porters. We went through some slide presentations, safety stuff, more safety, and then had dinner together. By 8pm, everyone had either retired for the night or went on to take care of other things. I was back in my room early as well and got ready for the next day. Since we’d be gone for 3 nights, we left the majority of our gear with the hotel. All I took were 2 pairs of boxers, 3 pairs of socks, 2 long sleeves, 2 pants, 1 pair of shorts, camera, gopro, phone, external battery charger, and my wallet (probably, I can’t remember).

Note: WordPress just removed the ability to look up things in Google Photos. I have to scroll backwards to find photos now? Takes forever. I hope this is a glitch.