Vietnam’s Hang Son Doong cave is the largest in the world, with caverns big enough to fit an entire city street inside them. These awe-inspiring photos take you inside the beautiful, alien world of the Hang Son Doong cave.
Many foreign TV channels and magazines are arriving in Quang Binh to survey and shoot documentaries about Son Doong cave and the biodiversity of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.
Son Doong – the world’s largest cave.
From March 6-26, British ITV Studio will make a TV documentary about Son Doong cave and biodiversity in Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park.
US filmmakers from National Geographic will also visit the newly-discovered grotto to shoot a film. This survey will feature the famous British explorer, Howard Limbert and will be broadcast in 120 countries in various languages.
In January 2010, Canada’s Yap Films Ltd. produced a TV documentary about Phong Nha-Ke Bang. Filmmakers from TV channels in Germany and Japan have also visited. [...Read more]
The Son Doong Cave is the world’s largest cave (Photo courtesy of the British Cave Research Association).
A group of Japanese filmmakers arrived in the central Quang Binh Province on Sunday to shoot a 3D documentary about Son Doong, the world’s largest cave in the province.
A member of the 12-strong film crew of Kyodo news agency said it will be the first 3D film about caves in the world.
The documentary will focus on the lives of creatures in the massive cave and the surrounding forests.
Experts from the British Cave Research Association, who discovered the cave in 2009, will accompany the filmmakers.
A local man, Ho Khanh, was considered the first person to actually find the cave in 1991 but then forgot the entrance. Khanh will now be the guide for the film crew.
The film will finish shooting on May 23. It is expected to be broadcast late this year in more than 160 countries and territories.
In 2009, a caver team of the British Cave Research Association discovered the Son Doong Cave at the UNESCO-recognized world heritage site Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park near the Laos-Vietnam border.
The cave measured at 200 meters high and 150 meters wide at its largest, nearly double the previous world’s largest cave – the Deer Cave in Malaysia – which is 100 meters high and 90 meters wide.
The expedition also found En Cave, located above the Son Doong Cave, measuring 150 meters high and 130 meters wide.
Source: Sai Gon Tiep Thi
A sculpted cavescape in the Son Doong Cave (Photo: Carsten Peter/National Geographic)
A 3D film about the world’s largest cave in central Vietnam will be broadcast on Japanese TV channel NHK on June 25, local authorities announced Tuesday.
The documentary featuring the Son Doong Cave will reach 60 countries in the world, according to the Quang Binh Province Department of External Affairs. [...Read more]
Twenty years after he stumbled on the discovery, a local farmer leads a British caving team to the find of the century
A team of British cavers recently announced record-breaking news – the discovery in Quang Binh Province of the largest cave in the world.
But the presence of the British team has eclipsed one very important figure in the story – 40-year-old Ho Khanh – a local man and guide for the expedition who says he first found the cave nearly 20 years ago, but lost it again.
Back to the start
Today the forty-year-old farmer mans a tea stall in a village on the edge of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. “I first found the cave 18 years ago, in 1991,” he says. [...Read more]
By Mark Jenkins
“Past the hand of dog, watch out for dinosaurs,” says a voice in the dark.
I recognize Jonathan Sims’s clipped, British military accent but have no idea what he’s talking about. My headlamp finds him, gray muttonchops curling out from beneath his battered helmet, sitting alone in the blackness along the wall of the cave.
“Carry on mate,” growls Sims. “Just resting a buggered ankle.”
The two of us have roped across the thundering, subterranean Rao Thuong River and climbed up through 20-foot blades of limestone to a bank of sand. I continue alone, following the beam of my headlamp along year-old footprints.
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Japan’s NHK World TV will broadcast on June 25 a 3D scientific reportage on Vietnam ’s Son Doong cave, which is classified as the largest cave in the world.
NHK TV’s broadcast will reach 60 countries around the world, according to the Foreign Affairs Department of the central province of Quang Binh , where Son Doong cave was found.
Department Deputy Director Nguyen Ngoc Quy said this scientific reportage is the first in the world using 3D technology.The reportage, called “Let’s fell the grandness of nature”, has been made by Japan ’s Kyodo film studio with assistance of Quang Binh province and the British Cave Research Association (BCRA). [...Read more]
The discovery of a life time - 3-day trip departured from Dong Hoi Town
Son Dong, a cave belongs to the Phong Nha-Ke Bang grotto system in central Quang Binh Province, has been discovered to be the biggest in the world.
Son Doong cave, discovered by a local 18 years ago, is more than 200 meters wide, 150 meters high, and at least 6.5 kilometers long, though the explorers said they were unable to explore it fully. Bristish explorers have recently discovered that So Dong is much larger than the world’s biggest known cave. The biggest section of Son Dong is five kilometers in length, 200 meters high and 150 meters wide, said Howard Limbirt of the British Cave Research Association team searching the area April 10-14, 2009. Son Dong is much larger than Deer Cave in Malaysia, currently considered the world’s largest, an explorer said (Deer is 90 meters wide, 100 meters high and 2 kilometers long). The Son Doong cave has replaced to take pole position as the world’s largest cave.
Itinerary at a glance
Day 1: Dong Hoi Town – Phong Nha Ke Bang NP – En Cave
Day 2: En Cave – Discover Son Doong Cave – return to En Cave
Day 3: Back to Dong Hoi Town
Trip notes
Duration: 3 days, 2 nights
Group size: 10 persons
Depart from: Dong Hoi Town (Quang Binh Province)
End at: Dong Hoi Town (Quang Binh Province)
When: Sep – May
Activities: Caving & Jungle trekking
Grade: Challenging
Transport: Van
Accommodation: 2 night camping
Tour guide: English speaking guide
Support crew: Porters & cook
Meals:
- Day 1: Lunch, Dinner
- Day 2: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
- Day 3: Breakfast, Lunch
Food
All meals, which are indicated in the itinerary, are included in the price of this trip. On the trek the support crew will cook meals for us. Since we are far away from the town, the emphasis will be on healthy and nutritious local produce. Please inform us if you have any special dietary requirement.
The camping ground
Our camp for the evening will be in a clearing in (or near) En Cave. You will be provided with twin shared tent & sleeping bag. Hamok can also provided if you preferred.
ATA tour guide
We will provide English speaking tour guide from Dong Hoi. The local tour guide is the one who know the area and the cave well. We will try to arrange Mr. Ho Khanh (the one who discovered Son Doong Cave) to be your local tour guide but that is not a guarantee.
What to bring
Trekking boot, sun block, hat, anti-insect repellent (mosquitos & and leeches are majority), warm clothes for cold weather, rain coat, toiletries, original passport.
Note on client safety
We reserve the right to deviate from this itinerary for any reasons, including road and weather conditions or for any other factor which may influence client safety.
Inclusion:
Camping gears
Permission to discover the cave
Transfer two ways from/to Dong Hoi
English speaking guide
Porters & Cook
First-aid kit
Meals as indicated in the itinerary
Drinking water
Entrance fees & sightseeing fees
Exclusion:
Travel insurance
Visa
Hotel in Dong Hoi
Train ticket
Air ticket
Tips for guides & driver
Personal expenses
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Dong Hoi – Phong Nha Ke Bang
08:00 Our tour guide will meet you at your hotel in Dong Hoi and brief the tour plan before we leave for Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park’s core zone to discover Son Doong Cave.
11:30 We reach Doong Village, a secluded village in jungle. We will have picnic lunch in the village. After lunch we begin a trek through jungle toward En Cave (Swallow Cave).
14:00 We reach En Cave, a beautiful cave with over 2km in length and 49m in height. We will explore the cave, taking photo then set our camp near a stream. Our support team will catch fish in the stream to cook our dinner.
18:00 Have dinner and sleep in tent.
Summary
Transfer: Private transfer 3hrs
Activity: Trekking, camping, En Cave discovery
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Local guide: Yes
Support team: Yes
Accommodation: Camping
Day 2: Son Doong Cave Discovery
07:30 Breakfast at the campsite before we begin our 2hr-trek through jungle to Son Doong Cave. Discover a part of the world’s biggest cave.
12:00 Have picnic lunch in the cave
15:00 Leave Son Doong Cave after 5-6hr discoverring inside the cave. We return to En Cave and take a swim in the stream before dinner.
Overnight at the campsite.
Summary
Activity: Trekking, Son Doong Cave Discovery
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Local guide: Yes
Support team: Yes
Accommodation: Camping
Day 3: Son Doong – Dong Hoi
08:30 Breakfast at the campsite before we trek toward Doong Village where we have lunch break before driving back to Dong Hoi Town. Trip ends.
Summary
Transfer: Private transfer 3hrs
Activity: Trekking
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Local guide: Yes
Note on client safety
We reserve the right to deviate from this itinerary for any reasons, including road and weather conditions or for any other factor which may influence client safety.
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