Our own visit, not sponsored. Prices come from the official notice of the Ngu Hanh Son (Marble Mountains) management board, checked in September 2026, not from receipts. The character illustrations are GPT-generated images.
Am Phu Cave at Marble Mountains, Da Nang — From the Ten Kings of Hell to the Hell Sculptures, 12 Minutes in Photos
Our Marble Mountains cave diary ⛰
On the morning of December 8, 2025,
we were inside a cave
at Da Nang’s Marble Mountains (Ngu Hanh Son)
with our kids.
A vertical shaft with light pouring through a hole in the ceiling — this looks like Am Phu Cave's Ksitigarbha seat (10:25)
Da Nang, Vietnam — foot of Thuy Son
🎫 Am Phu Cave: separate ticket
💰 Adults 20,000 dong
Students 7,000 dong
🎫 Mountain entry (Linh Ung · Huyen Khong)
Adults 40,000 dong
Elevator 15,000 dong per ride
👶 Free for all under 6
(official management board notice)
We didn’t write any notes that day.
All we have left are twenty photos
and their timestamps.
So this post sticks to
what the photos show
and the official notices
of the Ngu Hanh Son management board.
The twenty photos were taken
between 10:22 and 10:34 —
in just over 12 minutes.
🔍 Which cave is it?
Marble Mountains has two famous caves:
Huyen Khong Cave up on the mountain,
and Am Phu (Underworld) Cave at its foot.
Lining up the twenty photos in order,
they all look like Am Phu Cave.
① The tablet and incense burner, ten white statues,
the hell sculptures and the 判官殿 scale
each match the parts of Am Phu Cave
the management board describes
② Light gets into Am Phu Cave too
its Ksitigarbha seat is said to connect
to the mountaintop through a big opening
③ In 12 minutes, you can’t go back and forth
between the foot of the mountain and the top
🏮 10:22 The big hall with the memorial tablet
In the middle of a hall
with a ceiling far overhead:
a large stone slab lit in red,
and a bronze incense burner in front.
It looks like the board’s
Anh Linh Dai memorial tablet and incense burner.
Stairs lead on behind it,
and there were quite a few tourists.
The big hall near the entrance — a large incense burner in front of the red-lit tablet, stairs behind (10:22)
Within a minute,
we also took photos of a relief slab and altar on the wall,
and a white statue with yellow flowers
in a niche.
A relief stone slab on the cave wall, with an altar below (10:23)
A white statue in a niche between stalactites — chrysanthemums and water bottles in front (10:23)
🗿 10:24 Stairs and a general’s statue
Beside the stone stairs
stands a white statue dressed as a general,
with a small altar in front
holding water bottles and an incense holder.
We couldn’t tell who it is
from the photo alone,
so we haven’t given it a name.
A white statue dressed as a general beside the stairs — a small altar in front (10:24)
👑 10:24 Ten white statues
In a wide room,
white statues sit in a row
along the wall.
Zooming in on the photo,
the nameplate on the far right
reads 轉輪王 (the Wheel-Turning King).
In the middle, a round gold disc and an incense burner.
They look like the board’s
Hall of the Ten Kings of Hell
and its karma mirror (which reflects good and evil).
White statues seated in a row, with a round mirror-like sculpture in the middle (10:24)
☀️ 10:25 A shaft of light
The first photo at the top
is this scene.
Daylight falls
through an opening high in the ceiling
onto a wheel-shaped sculpture
on a white altar.
The guide says the Ksitigarbha seat
has a wheel of reincarnation
and gets light through an opening at the mountaintop,
so this looks like the Ksitigarbha seat.
We cropped out
another visitor’s face
at the bottom of the original.
👹 10:26 The hell path sculptures
A narrow passage
is lined with painted sculptures.
A person bitten by a crocodile,
a demon holding an axe,
a pink beast,
a woman carrying a bowl on her head.
This looks like the path the guide calls
”a winding hell
down to the right.”
The red paint is heavy,
so we’re showing just one shot.
A painted sculpture of an axe-wielding demon standing on a fallen person (10:26)
⚖️ 10:34 The scale in the Hall of the Judge
On the rock wall, three characters: 判官殿 (Hall of the Judge).
On the two pans of a white marble scale,
weights marked 因 (cause) and QUẢ (effect).
The guide says the two pans
of the scale in the Hall of the Judge
are marked cause and effect,
so this one is just what it looks like:
the Hall of the Judge.
A child reaching for the weights
was cropped out
because the side of their face showed.
The three characters 判官殿 on the wall; weights marked 因 and QUẢ on the two pans of a white marble scale (10:34)
The last of the twenty
was taken at 10:34 and 40 seconds,
looking up at the ceiling.
The last shot — folds of limestone on the ceiling, looking up (10:34)
not covered by the mountain ticket!
It needs its own 20,000 dong ticket
(free under 6)
📋 Prices (management board notice)
(Official notice of the Ngu Hanh Son
management board, checked September 2026)
Thuy Son entry
(Linh Ung Pagoda · Huyen Khong Cave)
Adults 40,000 dong · Students 10,000 dong
Am Phu Cave (separate ticket)
Adults 20,000 dong · Students 7,000 dong
Elevator
15,000 dong per person per ride
Free for everyone under 6
The official price page
was last updated in 2014,
so we checked it against the site
of Vietnam’s national tourism authority
and the amounts are the same.
We have no receipts from our visit.
The two official sources
give different hours,
07:00–17:00 and 07:00–17:30,
so please check before you go.
🕳 Am Phu vs. Huyen Khong
Am Phu Cave
At the foot of Thuy Son, separate ticket
About 7 times roomier inside than Huyen Khong
(board’s overview)
Ceiling 45–50 m high
(a Da Nang newspaper article on the board’s site)
Huyen Khong Cave
Up the mountain, included in the entry ticket
About 16 m to the ceiling, light through 5 openings
A 3 m Shakyamuni Buddha statue made in 1960
(board’s overview)
None of our twenty photos
are from Huyen Khong.
👍 Who this is for
✔ Anyone curious what’s inside
Am Phu Cave at Marble Mountains
✔ Anyone wondering how it differs
from Huyen Khong Cave
✔ Anyone who wants the entry, elevator
and separate-ticket prices in advance
Am Phu Cave
holds the memorial tablet hall, the Ten Kings hall,
the sunlit Ksitigarbha seat,
the hell path and the Judge’s scale
all in one cave.
On top of the mountain entry,
you’ll need a separate 20,000 dong ticket.
From our visit in December 2025. Prices follow the official price notice of the Ngu Hanh Son management board (in Vietnamese) (checked September 2026; page last updated in 2014), cross-checked with Vietnam's national tourism authority, and may change. Which part of the cave each photo shows is our own judgment from comparing the photos with the board's descriptions. The character illustrations are GPT-generated images.
Translated from our Korean post with AI assistance. Prices, times and other numbers were checked against the Korean original on October 6, 2026; the prices themselves are from the official notice as checked in September 2026. Original post (Korean)