Son Doong Cave belongs
to Phong Nha- Ke Bang cavern, is located at Son Trach village, Quang Binh
province. So far, it is considered as the largest natural cave of the world
that ever been discovered.
Discover the interesting facts about the Son Doong
cave:
1. Son Doong cave was discovered because of... raining
Son Doong cave was discovered by a farmer named Ho
Khanh in 1991. According to Ho Khanh, he was finding agarwood in the forest at
that time.He met a heavy rain forest while finding agarwood.
Ho Khanh decided to look for shelter because he was afraid of flash flood.
Coincidentally, the rain shelter that he stood was right at Son Doong cave.
2. Son Doong had been missing for 15 years
At the time discovered
Son Doong cave, Ho Khanh didn’t know about the cave value. Not long after his
trip, he quit finding agarwood and went back to farming.
15 years later, the whereabouts of this cave was
still in the dark. Untill 2006, when an expedition of the British Royal
Association went to search for new caves in Phong Nha – Ke Bang, Khanh told his
story about the cave to them. That was when the journey looking for the old
cave started.
3. Son Doong cave wasn’t displayed on Google Earth
However, the trip
finding the old cave wasn’t completely successful. All that in Khanh’s memory
was a large cave with winds blowing for 24/24.
Even with the
assistance of sophisticated scientific equipments and Google Earth software,
the expedition didn’t find the Son Doong cave. Up to 2009, Mr. Ho Khanh
officially rediscovered the cave of the past.
4. Son Doong cave is far wide enough to become an
aircraft parking area
According to
geologists, Son Doong cave was formed by around 2-5 million years ago, when the
river runs along the limestone buried along a fault line. The water current
causes erosion and creates a giant tunnel as today.
The size of Son Doong
cave is very large with a length of at least 5 kilometers, which is equivalent
to the capacity of about 68 Boeing 777 airplanes.
Even this figure may
be larger because according to scientists, the most modern facilities of today
have not fully explore the real length of this cave.
5. Son Doong cave is called the "Great
Wall" of Vietnam
In the Son Doong cave,
the experts discovered the enormous size positions. A picture taken by
photographer Peter Carten on May, 2010 recorded the cave part with the width of
91,44 meters and the high arch of nearly 243,84 meters – absolutely “stuffs”
enough a 40-storey tall building in New York.
National Geographic
website even compares that cave is far high enough to stack 25 double-decker
buses in.
The majestic and
monumental landscape of Son Doong cave makes the world honor it as “The Great
Wall of Vietnam”.
6. In Son Doong cave, visitors can find ...
"paradise" for their own
Son Doong cave is
famous for not only its giant size but also a variety of biological landscape .
In the Son Doong cave,
explorers discover a primitive forests with abundant vegetation, there has
never been human traces. Experts have even called the forest in this cave as
“The Garden of heaven” to honor this
breathtaking beauty.
7. Son Doong cave owns a “pearl” as big as a
baseball
Another special thing
of Son Doong cave is the system of stalactites and giant cave
"pearl". Over millions of years under the influence of external
forces, Son Doong owns the 70-meter high stalagmite column.
It is also found
these cave "pearls" (alabasters wrap pearl-like seeds of the sea, the
main component is calcite), which are biggest in the world.
Typically, this type
of “pearl” only has a diameter of about 1 centimeter, but in Son Doong cave, it
is as big as a baseball.
8. Son Doong cave attracts a supermodel to conquer
With its beauty, Son
Doong cave attracts a large amount of tourists which has 98% of foreigners.
Among them, there are three-generation families have conquer this cave, or even
the supermodel as Jasmina Mala (Czechs) and Prince Ahmed Hamdan (from Abu
Dhabi) have caved the largest cave of the world in Vietnam.
Son Doong cave looks very attractive from inside and the travelers who like to visit Vietnam, must visit this one of the largest caves. deals for cheap park and fly
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