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The largest cave in the world - Sơn Đoòng Cave
Puzzles and mysteries which conceals the nature, the world's countless. And there on the planet such neiskhozhennye and unexplored places, but a truly unique, which has not yet set foot human foot, but in the depths of which lies a completely different world.
In 1991, here on this lost world purely by chance during his walk through the national park called Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park came across a farmer in Vietnam, Ho Han. Hearing the roar of the water and the wind whistling, which came from a particular place in the middle of the jungle Ho suddenly saw the entrance. But down inside decided not to because it was a steep descent and frightening, strange noise from the darkness. Thus, quite by accident, a simple farmer opened the world's largest cave. Many millions of years it remained hidden from human eyes.
Sơn Đoòng Cave Cave is located in the province of Quang Binh, in Central Vietnam, south of Hanoi, 500 km, in a beautiful national park Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park. In 2009, descended into the cave, it explored the British Speleological Association. Their first mission was not so successful and long-lasting as cavers came across a high wall of calcite, which reaches a height of 60 meters. This natural obstacle was later named the Great Wall of Vietnam.
Sơn Đoòng Cave - is part of the system, which consists of 150 caves. The length of the studied caves currently equals 6,500 meters. The total volume of Sơn Đoòng Cave - 38, 5 million. M? ..
Approximately 2 million. Years - this is the age of the cave in which its scientists estimate. Isolated from the influences of the outside world for such a long period of time, it has formed within itself its own microclimate.
Thanks repeatedly held here expeditions cavers managed to find rooms that width is 150 m and 200 m in height. It is this fact allowed to carry Sơn Đoòng Cave of the huge cave in the world.
In 1991, here on this lost world purely by chance during his walk through the national park called Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park came across a farmer in Vietnam, Ho Han. Hearing the roar of the water and the wind whistling, which came from a particular place in the middle of the jungle Ho suddenly saw the entrance. But down inside decided not to because it was a steep descent and frightening, strange noise from the darkness. Thus, quite by accident, a simple farmer opened the world's largest cave. Many millions of years it remained hidden from human eyes.
Sơn Đoòng Cave Cave is located in the province of Quang Binh, in Central Vietnam, south of Hanoi, 500 km, in a beautiful national park Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park. In 2009, descended into the cave, it explored the British Speleological Association. Their first mission was not so successful and long-lasting as cavers came across a high wall of calcite, which reaches a height of 60 meters. This natural obstacle was later named the Great Wall of Vietnam.
Sơn Đoòng Cave - is part of the system, which consists of 150 caves. The length of the studied caves currently equals 6,500 meters. The total volume of Sơn Đoòng Cave - 38, 5 million. M? ..
Approximately 2 million. Years - this is the age of the cave in which its scientists estimate. Isolated from the influences of the outside world for such a long period of time, it has formed within itself its own microclimate.
Thanks repeatedly held here expeditions cavers managed to find rooms that width is 150 m and 200 m in height. It is this fact allowed to carry Sơn Đoòng Cave of the huge cave in the world.
