Destination

Located one door of a small arc in the eastern mountain range of Bo Hon Island, Drum Cave is 3km away from Sung Sot Cave on the southeast of Halong Bay. It is mainly chosen to held cave dinner by Halong Bay's cruise operators thanks to its various beautiful stalactites and its associated origin story, which make the cave a splendid and romantic place to dine. 

 

Drum Cave's legend is associated with Virgin Cave (Trinh Nu Cave), which is at the opposite direction. Two caves are 600-700 meter apart from each other and their doors looking toward different direction. It is told that in Virgin Cave, the shape of a rock lying horizontally is orginaly a beautiful girl dying while reaching towards the sea for her lovers. Too poor to marry the girl, her lover, as a fisherman, had gone into a long cruise and risk his life for a fortune. Upon hearing the girl running away from family pressure to marrying the rich, he came here but can’t find her from the echos of the caves and also turn to a rock looking over the sea in Drum Cave.

 

It it also said that whenever lightening strikes, the sound from the cave is like from a big drum, hence the name Drum Cave. Drum Cave is also an archeological remain of Soi Nhu culture dating about 18,000 to 7,000 years ago.