Động Thiên Long

Useful Information

Location:	ĐT356, Phù Long, Cát Hải, Hải Phòng. At the northwestern end of Cát Bà island, at the village Phù Long. (20.834525, 106.931942)
Open:	permanently closed? [2024]
Fee:	permanently closed? [2024]
Classification:	Karst Cave
Light:	Incandescent Coloured Light
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Address:	Động Thiên Long, ĐT356, Phù Long, Cát Hải, Hải Phòng, Tel: +84-976-433-656.
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History

2000	cave discovered.

Description

Động Thiên Long (Thien Long Cave, Dragon Cave), also known as Phu Long Cave, is a mystery cave. It is advertised on long pages with many great pictures, but at the second view it becomes obvious, that the texts are almost identical, and the pictures are showing other caves. And soon the weirdness begins. First of all: there is a cable car from Cat Hai island, which is industrial areas and harbours, to Phù Long. We have no idea who would ride such a cable car in the middle of nowhere. The Google and OSM coordinates are 500 m apart, the Google comments say that the Google coordinates are wrong. The pictures for the cave show a sort of Disney-World-like artificial city with European Medieval architecture, which is not shown on the satellite images. Probably it is somewhere completely different, probably it is newer than the satellite images, or probably there was a glitch in the Google database. However, as there are almost no real pictures of the cave, and the few which could be real are such a poor quality that it is impossible to learn anything about the cave.

The small village Phù Long seems to be nice but unspectacular. It is located in a swampy marshland, with basins, we guess they grow shrimps or something similar. North of the village is a karst tower, which is surrounded by swamps and sea. According to the legend, the cave was discovered in this karst tower in 2000. The locals wanted to earn some money with a show cave and developed it with trails, but probably without light. To get to the cave, visitors must hire a boat and a guide, the boat brings the visitor to a jetty, and a 400 m/10 minutes hike to the cave entrance starts. Then the cave is explored, with three subsequent chambers which are easily accessible.

We have no idea if this cave actually exists and if it is open. It is possible that this cave is a scam, a hoax, or simply closed due to the lack of visitors. If you have visited this cave, drop us a line.