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in Quảng Bình Province,

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. It is 7,729 metres long and contains 14 grottoes, as well as a 13,969 metre underground river. While scientists have surveyed 44.5 kilometres of passages, tourists are only allowed to explore the first 1500 metres.

Climate

The climate at Phong Nha Cave is cool and pleasant, sometimes with heavy rain.

Phong Nha cave, from which the name to the whole system and the park is derived, is famous for its rock formations which have been given names such as the “Lion”, the “Fairy Caves”, the “Royal Court”, and the “Buddha”. Phong Nha cave is 7729 m long but tourists can only penetrate to a distance of 1500 m.and contains several

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or chamber, including the Bi Ky grottoes. Its cave system features underground passageways and river caves filled with stalactites and stalagmites. The stalagmites that used to stand at the cave's entrance apparently inspired its name: Phong Nha means ‘Wind and Teeth’. Phong Nha is famous for its rock formation that bear intriguing names such as the ‘Lion’, ‘Unicorn’, ‘Kneeling elephant’ and ‘the Buddha’. After flowing about 19 km underground, the Son river emerges from the mouth of this cave, draining a huge area of the

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mountains around Phong Nha. Phong Nha has been voted as one of the most wonderful caves in the world for a number of reasons: for its longest underground river, for its most beautiful underground lake. for its highest and widest entrance, for its most beautiful and widest dry cave, for its most beautiful sandbank and reef, as well as for its most spectacular stalactites,

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and longest water grottos. *

Hang Sơn Đoòng Sơn Đoòng cave ( vi, hang Sơn Đoòng, IPA: ), in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Bố Trạch District, Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam, is one of the world's largest natural caves. Located near the Laos–Vietnam border, Hang Sơn � ...

Hang Én ('swift cave' in Vietnamese, named for the birds that nest in it), occasionally referred to as Én cave in English, is a cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Én is the third largest cave in the world, after H ...

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Phong Nha Cave in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National ParkPhong Nha CaveUNESCO 951Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park Official Website
Caves of Vietnam Landforms of Quảng Bình province Show caves in Vietnam Tourist attractions in Quảng Bình province {{Vietnam-stub

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