{"id":3921918,"date":"2025-09-14T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-hidden-portal-to-another-world-a-secret-underground-cave-in-vietnam\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T09:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T14:03:40","slug":"a-hidden-portal-to-another-world-a-secret-underground-cave-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-hidden-portal-to-another-world-a-secret-underground-cave-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"A \u2018Hidden portal\u2019 to another world\u2014a \u2018Secret\u2019 underground Cave in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This cave is probably beyond anything you\u2019ve ever come across! It\u2019s mesmerizing, it\u2019s mysterious, it\u2019s beautiful and magical.<\/p>\n

Discovered\u2014or better said rediscovered\u2014in 1990 by a man traveling through the jungles of the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Ho Khanh was searching the area for timber and food in order to make money in order to survive.<\/p>\n

Little did he know that his search for food and timber would take him to uncover a magical, otherworldly place.<\/p>\n

Ho Khanh explored the place as best as he could but eventually went back home. A few days later, when he thought about returning to the mystery cave to explore it, he couldn\u2019t remember the exact location where he had found the entrance. Eventually, Khanh forgot about it.<\/p>\n

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Image credit John Spies<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eventually, members of the British Cave Research Association (BCRA),\u00a0Howard<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Deb Limbert were exploring <\/strong>Phong Nha, conducting exploratory missions in the area.<\/p>\n

One day they spoke to Khanh who mentioned the mesmerizing cave he had come across.<\/p>\n

The British Cave explores were fascinated by what Khanh had told them and urged him to try and rediscover it once again.<\/p>\n

Many failed attempts went by as they searched for the cave entrance, and just when they thought they would never rediscover it, in 2008 Ho Khanh found its \u2018otherworldly portal,\u2019 a supermassive cave hidden for centuries far from mankind\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Khanh led the British cave explorers to the cave in 2009 as they performed the first-ever expedition to enter what would later become known as the Hang Son Doong cave, or the\u00a0\u2018Mountain River Cave\u2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The cave is massive. It\u2019s humongous. It\u2019s so big that many claim a Boeing 747 could easily fly through its largest cavern.<\/p>\n

\"Inside
Image Credit: John Spies<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The interior of the cave is unlike anything you\u2019ve ever seen. Its \u2018alien-like\u2019 landscapes are most likely exclusive to the cave, as many who have entered it have said that they\u2019ve never seen anything like it anywhere else in the world.<\/p>\n

The cave is one massive ecosystem, so big that it\u2019s as if you\u2019ve entered the \u2018inner world\u2019.<\/p>\n

In fact, it\u2019s so mesmerizing that entire jungles emerge from inside the cave, a landscape so magical that you cannot appreciate its true beauty until you are actually there.<\/p>\n

Australian photographer John Spies, who spent a week living inside the cave describes it in an interview with\u00a0The NYPost<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cave is a humbling and belittling experience,\u201d\u00a0says John Spies<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cIt is amazing to be [five miles] inside the cave and have daylight illuminate the cave formations. The dimensions of the cave are incredible. \u2026 To camp for five nights in the biggest cave in the world is not something most of us get to do in our lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe entrance is quite small and mist from the cave, caused by the cooler air inside meeting the hot air outside, rises into the surrounding forest,\u201d\u00a0Spies said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe cave is harder to get into than the Batcave.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo enter it, visitors must scale a 260-foot wall, using a harness and rope. They must then cross massive boulder piles and pass under chunks of limestone the size of small houses.\u201d<\/p>\n

But images best describe the cave so here are a couple of surreal pictures from inside the cave:<\/p>\n

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Image Credit John Spies<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Image credit John Spies \/ Barcroft Media<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cave
Image Credit: John Spies<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hang Son Doong, Vietnam. Underground low light plants thrive 100 meters beneath a giant sky hole in the world\u2019s biggest cave. Image Credit: John Spies<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Cave
Image credit John Spies<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Image Credit\u00a0John Spies<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Check out more unbelievable images by visiting\u00a0John Spies over at 500px<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This cave is probably beyond anything you\u2019ve ever come across! It\u2019s mesmerizing, it\u2019s mysterious, it\u2019s beautiful and magical.<\/p>\n

Discovered\u2014or better said rediscovered\u2014in 1990 by a man traveling through the jungles of the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, Ho Khanh was searching the area for timber and food in order to make money in order […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-code","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3921918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3921918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3921918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3921918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}