Topic: Spectacular Caves in Vietnam-Laotian Border Discovered!!!

[manyakihiro]

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Explorers discover spectacular caves in Vietnam
By Brett Michael Dykes



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 [National Geographic] 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.[Related: National Geographic's award-winning amateur photos]

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

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

[franksterling]

wow that's a good read! i've been to vietnam and laos but never explored the nature side of it.

[leightot]

sobrang haba at ang laki nya pero may mga walls in between the cave so hindi pa talaga nila ma explore yung loob, it doesn't even have a map yet kaya hindi pa sure kung ito na largest and longest cave in the world. sana makakita sila ng mga unexplored creature, yung river kasi sa loob tagus tagusan. baka dito daw nagtatago yung mga prehistoric animals.

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[Lusok]

Basta KWEBA pinag-uusapan SusO-ungin at kakalikutin ng espiya iyan!!!!!