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Phong Nha - Ke Bang – Best Tangible Heritage Site in 2015
Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park (Quang Binh Province) has been
honored as “Best Tangible Heritage Site in 2015” by Mekong Tourism Alliance.
This award is a part of Mekong Tourism Alliance Awards (MTAA) 2015 for the best
tour operators, hotels, resorts, airlines and heritage sites of 5 countries in
Mekong Sub-region, including Viet Nam, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar and Laos. The
awards aim to recognize and honor the contributions of tourism enterprises in
Mekong Sub-region, at the same time create incentives for enterprises to strive
for higher achievements.
Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park has a total area of 343,300ha and belongs to
districts of Quang Ninh, Bo Trach and Minh Hoa, 50km to the northwest of Dong
Hoi City.
Phong Nha – Ke Bang is compared to a huge geological museum owning global
meaning and value. The major tectonic phases and fault, fold movements of the
Earth’s crust 400 million years ago formed in Phong Nha – Ke Bang high mountain
ranges, depressed sedimentary basins, underground rivers and grottos in
limestone mountains.
Due to locating in the area with a high average rainfall, water is absorbed to
run inside limestone mountains in Phong Nha – Ke Bang over tens of million years
to erode rocks and create numerous caves in the area. Phong Nha – Ke Bang is
considered as “Kingdom of caves” with about 300 large and small caves, divided
into three main systems: Phong Nha Grottos, Vom Caves, and Ruc Mon Caves. Many
famous beautiful caves and grottos have been put into operation in tourism, such
as Phong Nha Grotto, Tien Son Grotto, Thien Duong Grotto, Toi Cave…, especially
Son Doong Cave is considered as the largest cave in the world with 200m in
height, 200m in width, at least 8.5km in length.
Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park is home to 2,400 species of higher plants, 140
animal species, 356 bird species, 97 reptile species, 47 amphibian species, 162
fish species, and 369 insect species, many of which are listed in Red Books of
Viet Nam and International Union for Conservation of Nature, such as sao la (Pseudoryx
nghetinhensis), mang lon (Megamuntiacus vuquangensis), mang Truong Son (Muntiacus
truongsonensis), Ha Tinh langur…
Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park was recognized as World Natural Heritage Site
two times in July 2003 and July 2015 by UNESCO.
Thu Giang.
Source: VNAT |
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