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Situated roughly eight km away from Cat Ba town, it takes about 30 minutes to travel to the Hospital Cave by motorbike.
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The cave can easily be found by following the signs along the road.
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The three-metre wide entrance is located halfway up the mountain, meaning visitors must climb up a wooden staircase.
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Previously, the cave was named after Hung Son, a military general who served during the era of the Tran Dynasty. He is said to have been the first person to have discovered this cave in the 13th century.
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From 1963 to 1965, as the American War escalated, a field hospital was established in order to treat wounded soldiers and shelter them from attacks. Following this, local people started to refer to it as the ‘Hospital Cave’.

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This hospital has about 17 rooms for patients along with a number of other rooms for doctors.
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It also has a physical recovery room, meeting room, a kitchen room, a medicine room, and a weapons room.

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When operational the hospital had been able to accommodate about 200 soldiers.

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The stairs to the second floor where a cinema room is set up.
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The emergency exit is a huge water tank which leads to the lower floors.

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Entrance tickets to the cave cost VND40,000 per adult and VND20,000 per child.
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