Nature highlight tour in Chom Ong Cave

Ban Chom Ong is a Khmu village situated approximately 45 km form Muang Xay, the capital of Oudomxay Province. The village comprises 114 households with over 800 people. Remote and with poor road conditions, people are suffering from reduced living standards, including limited income opportunities and difficult access to markets and health care facilities. Subsistence agriculture predominates in the area. The common production method is shifting cultivation (slash and burn). Until recently the only source of drinking water and water supply for the village in general was a small river passing the village.

Chom Ong cave is a recently rediscovered natural attraction located about 45 km from Oudomxay town near the Khmu Lu village of Ban Chom Ong Thai. In the village you can see traditional handicraft production.

From the village it is a one-hour walk, to the cave up the creek through rice fields and lovely forest with various animals, insects and small birds. The Nam Kaang River flows through the lower areas of the cave system. It enters the system in the North of the 4 km long mountain stretch and rediscovers daylight at the southern end. The exploration tour usually leads you through parts of the dry section in the South. The exploration of Chom Ong Cave takes about four to six hours and is a real adventure as the cave is still in its natural state.

The tour to Chom Ong Cave can be done as a two-day or as a three-day tour and brings you to the southern more easily accessible part of the fossil passage (see picture below). Also see the information flyer.