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
more...
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
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
more...
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