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Khanh agreed to guide the team to find the legendary cave. On their first expedition, the group found 11 previously unrecorded caves, two caves were named after Khanh and his daughter, Thai Hoa. After two more fruitless expeditions, the cavers finally gave in and left, asking Khanh to contact them if he found it again.
The cave was first mentioned in literature in 1550, appearing in Dương Văn An's works. This cave was depicted in 9 urns in the Citadel of the Nguyễn dynasty in Huế. [1] In 1824, The cave was conferred the title "Diệu ứng chi thần" (妙 應 之 神) by King Minh Mạng. It was also conferred by Nguyen kings as "Thần Hiển Linh ...
Formed in Carboniferous/Permian limestone, the main Sơn Đoòng cave passage is the largest known cave passage in the world by volume – 3.84 × 10 7 m 3 (1.36 × 10 9 cu ft), according to BCRA expedition leader Howard Limbert. It is more than 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) long, 200 metres (660 ft) high and 150 metres (490 ft) wide.
Con Moong Cave — Thanh Hóa: 2006 5072; (cultural) The site, located within the Cúc Phương National Park, was excavated by archaeologists in 1976. The place contains cultural traces of residents of Sơn Vì, Hòa Bình and Bắc Sơn cultures, where people resided continuously from 13,000 to 7,000 years ago. The archaeological site ...
Phong Nha Cave is a cave in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Quảng Bình Province, Vietnam. It is 7,729 metres long and contains 14 grottoes, as well as a 13,969 metre underground river.
The richly decorated Perak Tong Temple [43] (1926) in the Malaysian city of Ipoh, which is predominantly inhabited by ethnic Chinese, was donated and designed by Buddhist immigrants from China, as was the cave temple Ling Xian Yan (since 1967) near Gunung Rapat near Ipoh. The construction of the Daoist Chin Swee Cave Temple on Malaysia's ...
Hang Temple (Vietnamese: Chùa Hang) means "Cave Temple" and may refer to many temples in Vietnam: Hang Temple ( Phuoc Dien Temple), Chau Doc, An Giang; Hang Temple, My Hoa commune, Phu My District, Binh Dinh; Hang Temple ( Co Thach Tu ), Binh Thanh, Tuy Phong District, Binh Thuan; Hang Temple (Hai An Temple), Nha Trang, Khanh Hoa
The center of the Chùa Hương complex, Hương Tích Cave houses Chùa Trong (Inner Temple). The mouth of the cave has the appearance of an open dragon's mouth with Chữ Nho characters carved in a wall at the mouth of the cave. The characters (Nam thiên Đệ nhất Động) are translated as "the foremost cave under the Southern Heavens ...