Nicknamed the Lost world…. it made it straight to my bucket list once it was discovered.
Originally shared by Elena Nikitinykh
Giant cave of Son Dung Khan (the name translates as “mountain river cave”)
The world community has learned about this miracle of nature only in 2009 when a group of British researchers from the British Association of cavers (BCRA) examined the cave. The studies were conducted from 10 to 14 April 2009.
In fact, the tribes living in the jungle have long known about this cave, but they were afraid of her because of the sibilant sounds, which publishes an underground river flowing into the cave.
A team of researchers led Howard Limbert. According to him cave Han Son Dung at least five times larger than Phong Nha cave, which is still considered the largest in Vietnam.
The largest room cave Han Son Dung is 5 km long, 200 m high and 150 m in width. It turns out that Han Song Dung surpasses even the Malaysian Cave deer.
Due to mixing of air masses of different temperature clouds are formed even under the ground.
The underground hall caves Hang Son Dung plenty of room even for a 40-storey skyscraper.
Where the entrance to the cave breaks fairly light, limestone cliffs covered with a carpet soft green.
After the plants down to the cave is not only insects and snakes, even monkeys and birds.
Small depressions in the limestone cave packed with pearls. This rare type of pearl grows by itself in lime water puddles. Its composition is little different from that pearl mussels that they produce, but he has a beautiful pearl sheen. However – this is a rare natural phenomenon, so the scattering of the cave pearls are always of great interest to cavers.
Giant stalagmites in the rays of light like a stone cactus.
Passages in caves Hang Son Dung monolithic rock blocking the Great Wall of Vietnam. Therefore, to find a path leading to the cave was one of the toughest challenges a group of British cavers.
All stones are very slippery walls of caves and constantly wet. To descend and ascend almost perpendicular to these porous walls, and even in pitch darkness, to the safest climbing equipment.
The caves are connected with each other in a giant network of underground rivers and the volume of which in the rainy season increased many times over, constantly changing the channel. During the rainy season, these caves are virtually inaccessible to researchers and filled with water.
source – http://otpusk.mirtesen.ru/blog/43367551436/Pokoryaya-beskonechnuyu-pescheru
