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tanya
01-04-2011, 10:43 AM
For decades, geologists have known that Vietnam is home to some of the world's most spectacular caves (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/ts_yblog_thelookout/storytext/explorers-discover-spectacular-caves-in-vietnam/39453452/SIG=12a6fkbpk/*http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/peter-photography), many of them largely unexplored. Now husband-and-wife cavers have documented perhaps the world's largest (http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/yblog_thelookout/ts_yblog_thelookout/storytext/explorers-discover-spectacular-caves-in-vietnam/39453452/SIG=125vk7f39/*http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/01/largest-cave/jenkins-text): 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.


On yahoo news today


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110103/ts_yblog_thelookout/explorers-discover-spectacular-caves-in-vietnam

and in National Geographic

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

p40whk
01-04-2011, 10:57 AM
Now that would be a cool vacation!

oldno7
01-04-2011, 11:20 AM
no caver here, but that looks incredible.

Scott P
01-05-2011, 05:33 AM
Cool. SE Asia is full of such caves (Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and parts of Indonesia [such as Borneo] at least-probably more). A few weeks ago we had the pleasure of exploring Gua Tempurung in Malaysia and it looked a lot like the above cave. The cave is so big and impressive that it was useless with my camera to try and photograph the vastness because the flash will not reach the cieling or walls (not by a long shot).

The cave was incredible (more impressive than Carlsbad Caverns) and we got to see some of the wild parts of the cave as well. It was just amazing.