Where the limestone was weak, the ceiling collapsed creating huge skylights. Son Doong cave is more than 200 meters wide, 150 meters high, and approx 9 kilometers long, with caverns big enough to fit an entire city street inside them, twice as large as Deer Cave in Malaysia (currently considered the world's largest with 90 meters wide, 100 meters high and 2 kilometers long). Son Doong cave was classified as the largest cave in the world by BCRA (British Cave Research Association) and selected as one of the most beautiful in the globe by the BBC news.
Son Doong Cave is in the heart of the Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park in Quang Binh province.
Imagine trekking straight into the depths of the world’s largest cave on an expedition unlike any other.A cave that can fit a 747 flying through its largest cavern. A space where you truly don’t believe it’s possible that you are still on this earth at all. Foreign landscape, enormous stalacmites and statuesque stalactites, hanging from the ceiling and rising from the ground like an alien species. A jungle within a cave, that’s almost so unreal that you have to see it to believe it. Misty clouds enveloping the whole scene, evidence of the cave’s own weather system. Fossil passageways that give proof of the cave’s ancient existence.
As you approach the jungle just outside the entrance, the rush of cool wind that cascades out brings to life everything inside of you. It’s misty, cold and exhilarating; it’s apparent that there’s something magical waiting just beyond the entrance to the cave.
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