#doong

- le fils Doong grotte, Vietnam

La plus grande grotte du monde - c'est plus de 5,5 kilomètres longs et assez grands pour s'adapter à un gratte-ciel de 40 étages. Il a aussi une nature étonnante, comme la jungle tropicale. 

Imagine, in the 21st century, discovering a marvel on par with Mount Everest or the Grand Canyon. It happened, in 2009, with the revelation of the largest cave passage in the world. It’s in Vietnam and they call it Hang Son Doong, “Mountain River Cave.” An intrepid British explorer, Peter MacNab, led the first team through this epic underworld of caverns the height of skyscrapers. MacNab is to…

Vietnam’s Son Doong is big enough to fit a skyscraper, but despite its immense size, it took 18 years for Ho Khanh, the man who first found the entrance, to rediscover Hang Son Doong, deep inside a Vietnamese jungle.  In 2009, Peter MacNab, along with a five-man team, were the first to explore the cave after Ho Khanh’s discovery. They descended into darkness, with no idea what lay inside the…

For decades, 60 Minutes has explored some of the most remote and extraordinary places on Earth, places viewers have never been and likely will never go. But even by those standards, correspondent Scott Pelley’s latest assignment stands apart. “This was completely unique,” Pelley said. This week’s journey takes viewers deep into the largest known cave passage in the world: Son Doong Cave in…

Son Doong, the world’s largest cave passage — big enough to fit a skyscraper — is deep inside a Vietnamese jungle. Exploring the dark caverns, home to beautiful rock formations and a river, takes days. Source link

Visit to Son Doong Cave among top adventurous experiences, say Britons

British TV channel Dave, a panel of travel experts and editors of U.K. tabloid Daily Mail polled 2,000 people aged 40 or under earlier this week for a survey of ‘greatest adventures around the world and across the U.K.’

Of them, 24 percent said they want to explore Son Doong Cave in the central province of Quang Binh, dubbed Vietnam’s ‘Kingdom of Caves,’ putting it fifth in the top 20 adventure…