Hang Son Doong - Explorers discover spectacular cave in Vietnam

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110103/ts_yblog_thelookout/explore...

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/largest-cave-interactive


For decades, geologists have known that Vietnam is home to some of the world's most spectacular caves, many of them largely unexplored. Now husband-and-wife cavers have documented perhaps the world's largest: Hang Son Doong, big enough in places to accommodate a New York City block of skyscrapers.
The cave in the Annamite Mountains contains a river and jungle (its name translates to "mountain river cave") and even its own thin clouds, and its end remains out of sight. It's part of a network of about 150 caves in central Vietnam near the Laotian border.


Howard and Deb Limbert of England led the first expedition to enter Hang Son Doong in 2009, but they were stopped a couple of miles in by a huge calcite wall. The team returned recently to climb the wall, take measurements and try to find the cavern's end.


Many more photographs taken in Hang San Doong and other newly explored caves have been published in the January issue of National Geographic and on its website, where you can view larger images. The site also has an interactive graphic of the river cave's path

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[l33twar]

theres problaby a new species of fish to be discovered

[daltonsbadboy]

@l33twar Your probably right

[MammothWooly]

I hope this doesnt open a HUGE tourist attraction. Let it be like ho hoan kiem.

[daltonsbadboy]

@MammothWooly ho hoan kiem? shhhhhhh, don't tell everyone about it...geeeeeze (:

[THETOYOTAable]

vietnam is a 5000 years old country, there alot of a nice PLACE over there, and DONT FORGET ABOUT FOOD IF YOU GO THERE.

[daltonsbadboy]

@THETOYOTAable I dated a Vietnamese woman before.....so i know firts hand about their cooking (:

[GuardianDemonX]

viet pride

[mozilla19990]

awesome :x

[bote117]

woooow wonderful

[activetravelvietnam]

Nice and wonderful cave in the world. Son Doong is great cave for adventurers! I found more information at sondoong-cave(dot)com

[fuzzypickle90]

hom money bem bem hom

[honey4xi]

Vote for Ha long Bay (Halong) in English as the new Seven Wonder of Nature on wwwnew7wonderscom (there is a dot in wn and sc for this link, comments on YouTube do not show the dot in the URL, you add the dot in the URL and paste in the browser to get to their wesite to vote). You have to register to vote on their website until 11.11.2011. Our country, Vietnam, brings this wonderful bay to the world. It's the only one found in nature.

[abarrathemaster]

people have lived there fo thousends of years but did not stabble across this cave until 199something

[vinhthanh3741]

My beautiful country ^^ i love Vietnam

[GahDub]

Wow....this cave looks JUST like a graphic illustration!!!! ;P

[ketnoi2020]

I love Vietnam, Beatyful cave...