In 1991, logger Hồ Khanh stumbled upon something big in what is now Vietnam"s Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park. During a jungle expedition, he found the entrance to a cave with a roaring underground river. It was later named Hang Sơn Đoòng, or "cave of the mountain river" and in 2009, the British Cave Research Association led an expedition to explore it. They realized something incredible: It was the world"s largest cave. Hang Sơn Đoòng"s main passage is 3.1 miles long, 490 feet wide, and 660 feet high. That"s tall enough to fit a 40-story skyscraper.
Hang Sơn Đoòng Cave, Vietnam
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Three Musketeers Falls at Iguazú Falls, Argentina
-
Taughannock Falls State Park
-
Lençóis Maranhenses National Park in Brazil
-
Sydney Harbour, New South Wales, Australia
-
World Octopus Day
-
Fall comes to the Last Frontier
-
Blue paradise on the Costa Brava
-
Falling for Rioja
-
An ultralight aircraft flying over the sands of Namibia
-
International Rock Day
-
In search of roadside attractions on ‘America’s Highway’
-
Fiddlehead fern fronds
-
A narrow passage
-
Ayutthaya Historical Park, Thailand
-
Porcupine
-
Black History Month
-
Space-age style by the sea
-
Tide pools in La Jolla, California
-
Avalanche Lake Trail at Adirondack High Peaks, New York
-
Kings of the Kalahari
-
Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia
-
A grand event
-
Central Highlands of Vietnam
-
International Whale Shark Day
-
Hanging out on a limb
-
National Lighthouse Day
-
Dragon dance performed in Chenzhou, Hunan Province, China
-
Hohenzollern Castle near Stuttgart, Germany
-
The Easter Bunny’s story
-
Cape Town at dusk