The Son
Doong cave in Vietnam is the largest cave in the world. A tour inside the cave
is something extraordinary; it contains a jungle, a river and it has plenty of
room for a skyscraper with 40 floors!
The enormous
cave is located 280 miles south of the capital Hanoi, in the Vietnamese
national park Phon Nha-Ke Bang. Tag along in this underground world and be
inspired by nature's beauty ..
Son Goong
translates to mountain river cave. It was created 2-5 million years ago by
river water eroding away the limestone underneath the mountain.
It was
found in 1991 by a local farmer, but the first people who actually explored the
cave were British experts in 2009.
The cave as
a whole is estimated to be 87 miles long.
It contains
its own animal life, lakes, rain-forest, beaches and a river.
Many caves
have relics from a prehistoric age, like statues or paintings on the mountain
walls. But nothing compared to what has been found in Son Doong.
The first
tourists visited the cave in 2013.
Guided tours
are available. They last for 7 days and visitors can spend their nights camping
inside the cave. The total cost per person is around $2300.
The cave has
also rare pearls that are formed when water laden with minerals dripping from a
cave's ceiling, falls too quickly to form a stalagmite. Instead, the dripping
water forms a small ball of mineral deposits that grows into a small mineral
pearl.
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