Vietnam World Heritage Sites - Phong Nha- Ke Bang - National Park
Phong Nha- Ke Bang is a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Bố Trạch and Minh Hóa districts of central Quảng Bình Province in the North Central Coast region of Vietnam.
The name Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng is composed of Phong Nha (cave) and Kẻ Bàng (limestone forest). Phong Nha is widely explained as originating from Hán Nôm which means wind-tooth (wind flowing from the cave and stalactites and stalagmites inside the cave looking like teeth)
Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park is one of the world's two largest limestone regions. In comparison with 41 other world heritage sites which have karsts, Phong Nha has dissimilar geomorphic, geologic and biotic conditions. The karsts of Phong Nha can be traced back to Palaeozoic era, 400 million years ago. This makes Phong Nha the oldest major karst in Asia.
At Phong Nha - Ke Bang, in 1991, local man named Ho Khang was found Sơn Đoòng Cave, nnly in 2009 did the cave become internationally known after a group of cavers from the British Cave Research Association and it has the largest known cave passage cross-section in the world.
Beside Sơn Đoòng Cave, Phong Nha-Ke Bang has a system of about 300 large and small caves. The Phong Nha cave system has been rated by the British Royal Caves Research Association (BCRA) as the world's most valuable cave, with four of the largest: has the longest underground river, has the highest and widest gates, the broadest and most beautiful sandbanks, the most beautiful stalactites
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