Travel Guide Bo Hon Island

The island of Bô Hon is one of the largest in the bay. There is the famous "Surprise Cave" (Hang Sung Sôt). "In the side of a reef of the northern part of the island of Surprise opens, flush with the water, an excavation in the form of a low arch (...) This passage leads to the Circus, a vast basin with vertical walls on which a beautiful echo is heard Such is the description of the place that the tourist of the 1930s could read in the famous Madrolle guide of North Indochina. Today, the visitor will find it difficult to imagine himself as an explorer. The cave has indeed been fitted out for the comfort and safety of the (too) many tourists.