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  • Explorers discover spectacular caves in Vietnam (world's largest?)

    01/03/2011 2:37:01 PM PST · by americanophile · 34 replies
    Yahoo! News ^ | Jan. 3, 2010 | 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.