Curious places in Vietnam
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Thousands of limestone islands create isolated tide pools and caves. Each island hosts unique microfauna, and the karst topology generates extreme habitat diversity in a small area.
The world's largest cave passage could fit a 40-story skyscraper inside. It has its own jungle, river, and clouds that form beneath the ceiling when warm and cool air meet.
The world's largest cave contains entire jungles growing under collapsed skylights. The underground ecosystem includes birds, monkeys, and flying foxes living in a subterranean world.
The 1,600 islands are remnants of a dissolved landscape. Carbon-14 dating of cave stalactites shows the bay flooded only 11,000 years ago as ice age glaciers melted.
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