Son Doong cave (Photo: Ryan Deboodt)Quang Binh (VNA)– Son Doong, the world’s largest known cave located in Vietnam’s centralprovince of Quang Binh, has been ranked third among the worldwide bucket-listtrips for 2019 by Lonely Planet, a prestigious travel guide magazine.
“The incredible depths of the world’s largestcave lures in travellers who want a true adventure. But the arduous journeyinto this subterranean site makes booking a trek essential,” according to themagazine.
“The major tour operator that takes travellersinside, Oxalis Adventure Tours, says on its website that less than 300 spacesremain for 2019 tours. If you want to make it happen book soon – or get on thewaiting list for 2020,” it said.
Deputy Director ofthe provincial Department of Tourism Dang Dong Ha said the ranking hassignificantly contributed to promoting the cave, as well as general tourism inQuang Binh and Vietnam around the world.
Quang Binh willpartner with relevant agencies to ensure safety and quality for tourists to SonDoong, while implementing many large tourism promotion programmes in the cave.
The Inca Trail inPeru tops Lonely Planet’s list, followed by Burning Man in Nevada of the US.Other destinations included on the list are Under Restaurant in Norway and the2019 Solar Eclipse in South America.
Son Doong Cave hasbeen recognised as the largest of its kind in the world by three internationalrecord-keeping organisations – Guinness, the Association World, and WorldKings.
The cave is located in the heart of Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park in QuangBinh province.
Son Doong was discovered by a local resident in 1991. It was first explored in2009 by the British Cave Research Association and has been open to the publicsince 2013.
The 1,645m-long cave system, which extends through a mountain, was named one ofthe most captivating caves on earth by National Geographic. –VNA
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