Worlds Largest Cave has a Jungle and a Waterfall

Originally posted by elitegamer23
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awesome pics , will put going here on my bucket list.

wish there was more stuff like this on ats instead of all the political trolling and hate mongering threads.

Yea, same here. I wish I was still as adventurous as I was when I was younger. It would be fun to visit this place but it would be awesome to actually discover a place like this.

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wow that cave and jungle is beautiful!


i hope that nobody destroys it or ruins its natural peaceful beauty.


G protect places like this, please G.



peace.

Thanks , great find star& flag. It looks beautiful

How amazing would it have been to have found a culture of people in there? What if it were an advanced civilization living in there untouched for the past 10,000 years.

Still an amazing discovery!

Awesome looking place. Sure beats a concrete jungle.

That's where I'll be heading when the solar flares are coming! Might be a bit squishy, but I'm sure all 7 billion of us will fit.

Oh and I think they mean rediscovered. I bet this place has been 'discovered' dozens of times over the millennia.

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Seen it before a few times HOWEVER,...
Everytime I see this cave I am more amazed than the last time.
It kind of has a middle earth feel to it.

Originally posted by GmoS719
I wonder how a cave (having no sunlight) can have a forest inside of it?
Weird, but awesome!

I asked the same question myself and I asked the wife.
She says it is tropical and they are more dependant on moisture and warmth, kind of like the stuff on the jungle floor under the canopy.
Makes sense to me.

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A paragraph on the linked page explains it.

And as shown in these amazing images taken by photographer Carsten Peter, there is even a jungle concealed deep inside the cave. Because of a collapsed portion of the cave roof, vegetation began to grow and form what would be the largest cave jungle. The jungle is fairly small, but considering its location also fairly incredible. It also has the nickname "Garden of Eden."

source

Skip to 2:40 to get a brilliant look at the forest in Son Doong:

Originally posted by dayve
Thats gonna be my hibernation spot if i die n come back as a grizzly bear...

Well your gonna hafta hope that grizzly bears can get passports and fly on planes otherwise you'll have a big swim ahead of you.


add: like to see airport security fondle that passenger

wow thats dope! i would love to live there! imagine how many places there are like this that we dont know exist!

It is beautiful, unfortunately it will become just another tourist site.

If there is a place on Earth that looks like it should have dinosaurs, this is probably it.

totally fantastic, what a brilliant post! Thank you for that. Can see why it is dubbed The Garden of Eden.

Wasn't this posted a few months ago?

Pretty sure it was.

Ok so it was last year... people have short memories


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Nobody has mentioned the Genesis test cave from Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan yet??



It is wonderful though, gotta love nature.

What a amazing place full of beauty and the unknown its like walking into a fantasy..Also it looks like the Garden of Eden ..Oh id love to be able to go there its one of mother natures finest.peace,sugarcookie1

Ok well that's settled that. Now I have a place to visit in south Asia.

Originally posted by blupblup
Wasn't this posted a few months ago?

Pretty sure it was.

Ok so it was last year... people have short memories


www.abovetopsecret.com...

Ahh short memories.. Take that all you 2012 members. You should know better than to be interested in things that were posted last year before you joined.

You are the demise of this site, I swears to almighty aquaman!!!1

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got any link to that ? id like to know more