8 interesting facts about Son Doong cave

Son Doong Cave is located in Phong Nha - Ke Bang cave complex, located in Son Trach commune, Bo Trach district, Quang Binh province. So far, this has always been considered the largest natural cave in the world ever discovered.

1. Son Doong Cave was discovered because . it rained

Son Doong Cave was discovered by a farmer named Ho Khanh in 1991. According to Ho Khanh's account, at that time he worked in the forest to find deep.

In one go, he met a large rain of forests, fearing that there would be flash floods, Ho Khanh decided to find shelter for rain. Incidentally, he stayed in the rain . right at Son Doong cave.

2. Son Doong Cave is missing in . 15 years

At the time of discovering Son Doong cave, Ho Khanh did not know the value of the cave. Shortly after that trip, he quit his job of finding a bass and returned to farming.

For the next 15 years, the area of ​​this cave is still in the dark. It was not until 2006, when an expedition of the Royal Society came to search for new caves in Phong Nha - Ke Bang , Khanh brought his story to them. That was when the journey to find the cave in the old days began.

3. Son Doong Cave is not displayed on . Google Earth

However, the journey to find the cave in the past was not quite successful. All that is in Khanh's memory is a large cave, the wind blows 24/24.

Even with the help of state-of-the-art scientific equipment and Google Earth software , the expedition still couldn't find Son Doong cave. It was not until 2009, Mr. Ho Khanh officially found the cave in the past.

4. Son Doong Cave "Excessive power" becomes an airport parking

According to geologists, Son Doong cave was formed about 2 to 5 million years ago, when river water flowed across limestone areas buried along a fault line. The water line eroded the dish and created a giant tunnel like today.

The size of Son Doong cave is very large with a length of at least 5km, equivalent to accommodating about 68 Boeing 777 planes.

Even this number may be larger because according to scientists, the most modern means have yet to fully discover the true length of this cave.

5. Son Doong Cave is called "The Great Wall of Vietnam"

In Son Doong cave, experts discovered locations of very large size. A photo taken by photographer Peter Peter in May 2010 recorded a cave section with a width of 91.44m and a high arch of nearly 243.84m - completely "fit" a 40-storey building in New York.

National Geographic page even compared that, the cave was so tall that it stacked 25 double-decker buses comfortably.

The grandeur and grandeur of the landscape of Son Doong cave makes it world famous as " The Great Wall of Vietnam" (understood as "The Great Wall of Vietnam" , like ' The Great Wall of China'. ' is the Great Wall of China.

6. Go to Son Doong cave, visitors can find . "Eden garden" for themselves

Not only famous for its huge size, Son Doong Cave is also known for its diversity in the landscape of creatures.

In Son Doong cave, the explorers discovered a primeval forest with abundant vegetation , no trace of humans. Experts even called this cave in the cave a 'paradise garden' to honor this beautiful beauty.

7. Son Doong Cave possesses a "pearl" that is as big as . a baseball

Another special feature of Son Doong cave is the giant stalactite and "pearl" cave system. Over millions of years under the impact of external forces, Son Doong owns stalagmites up to 70m high.

In addition, people also discovered the "pearls " cave (jade stone covered a seed like sea pearls, the main component is calcite) the world's largest in Son Doong.

Usually, these "pearls" are only about 1cm in diameter but in Son Doong alone, they are as big as a baseball.

8. Son Doong Cave attracts both supermodels to conquer

With its beauty, Son Doong Cave attracts many tourists with 98% foreigners . Among them, there are families of all three generations who once conquered this cave, or even supermodels like Jasmina Mala (Czech) and Crown Prince Ahmed Hamdan (from Abu Dhabi) who also explored caves. The largest in the world in Vietnam.