Hang Son Doong, located in Vietnam, is the world’s largest cave. It is so enormous, measuring 200 meters wide, 150 meters high and almost 9 kilometers long, its caverns are big enough to fit entire city streets inside of them.
It was created over millions of years by rivers eroding away the weaker limestone layers inside the mountain. Over time the massive caverns became so big that at certain points the ceiling collapsed, creating huge skylights. Now those parts of the cave have turned into a vast green jungle-like world complete with underground rivers.
Surprisingly, it was only found in 1991 by a local and only properly discovered in 2009 by a British caving expedition. To capture this amazing natural phenomenon, cave, adventure, and travel photographer Ryan Deboodt went into the cave, using a drone and a whole array of cameras and lights.
His phenomenal 6-minute film of the cave will help you appreciate its shear size, especially when you start to notice that the tiny moving objects are actually people. The place is really otherworldly and is something that probably can’t be experienced anywhere else in the world. (Via Colossal, petapixel).
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