Son Doong Cave tops 21st Century Life List
(VOV) -Son Doong Cave in Vietnam’s central QuangBinh province ranked first in the 21st Century Life List selected by Smithsonian, the world's largest museum and research complex.
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The website wrote, “Son Doong Cave has ceilings so high (600 feet) they could accommodate the Washington Monument. Its widest expanses (450 feet) could fit a pair of Boeing 747s side by side. A shimmering blue river runs through it. Most spectacularly, a jungle flourishes under shafts of sunlight in stretches where the ceiling fell in long ago.” Smithsonian described the cave as more than five miles long—about five times longer than its nearest competitor for the world’s longest, Deer Cave in Sarawak, Malaysia. Photo: Ryan Deboodt. |
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