Son Doong Cave - attractive destination in the next 20 years

Post date: 09/09/2014

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(Quang Binh Website) - According to the Huffington Post - the US online news aggregator, Son Doong Cave in Vietnam’s Quang Binh province is predicted to become the most attractive destinations for tourists in the next 20 years.


The world’s biggest cave – Son Doong Cave in Viet Nam’s Quang Binh Province – has been suggested by the Huffingtonpost as one of the places that people should visit in 20 years. – Photo Huffingtonpost.com

In an article entitled This Is Where You’ll Go On Vacation In 20 Years, the Huffington Post mentions Son Doong Cave – the biggest in the world – alongside 14 other places on the globe.

Other places that have been mentioned in the article include Mount Everest in Nepal, the Grand Canyon Escalade in Arizona, an underwater city and the world’s biggest mall in Dubai, the massive Ferris wheel and river pool in New York, Koh Rong Island in Combodi, a volcanic magma chamber in Iceland, mail tunnels and Europe’s biggest indoor water park in London, a completed Sagrada Familia in Spain...

This is the list of famous places in the world which will become “hotspots” for visitors over the next two decades, Huffington Post said.

Son Doong Cave - the world’s largest natural cave in Vietnam, is considered an interesting destination for a 7-day adventures, which include rappelling into the cave, camping by its massive stalagmites and exploring the underground rivers and jungles, will become much more accessible in the coming decades, Huffington Post described.

Son Doong was discovered by chance by a local man in 1991 and first explored by some British cavers in 2009. The cave is more than 200m wide, 150m high, and approximately 9km long. It also has a jungle and a river, and could fit a 40-storey skyscraper within its walls.

It was classified as the largest cave in the world by the British Cave Research Association and selected as one of the most beautiful in the world by BBC news.

Earlier, Son Doong had also been listed in the "52 Places to Go in 2014" by The New York Times Travel.

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