Explore the most beautiful caves in the world

Harrison's Cave in the Caribbean island of Barbados is the only cave in the world with water flowing along multi-colored crystal-like shapes. The erosion of limestone blocks creates many large and small caves, with rock niches, lakes, streams and waterfalls.

Phong Nha Cave is the largest and most beautiful cave in Vietnam, recognized by UNESCO as a world heritage site. The cave is 7,729m long, including 14 large and small caves in a row, with an underground river nearly 14 km long and many stalactites and stalagmites. The river has two wide and beautiful sand banks, with many of the most beautiful rock shapes in the world. Recently, some consultants suggested cleaning the cave with bleach and building paths inside the cave. However, this idea faced fierce opposition from domestic scientists.

Introducing Thien Duong cave

In 2005, the news that a local person accidentally discovered this cave attracted the attention of scientists and explorers. After that, the Royal British Caving Association conducted an exploration of the cave and announced unexpected results. This is the longest dry cave in Asia, formed about 350-400 million years ago, with a shimmering system of stalagmites and stalactites, beyond human imagination, so it was named Paradise.

According to measurements by the survey team, the cave has a length of more than 31.4 km, a width ranging from 30 to 100m, the widest place is up to 150m; The height from the bottom to the ceiling is about 60-80m with a majestic and magnificent structure. Most of the cave's floor is soft soil, wide and quite flat, the temperature in the cave is only 20-21 degrees Celsius. In particular, this cave is still in motion with countless stalactites growing over the years. .

Since 2010, this cave has been put into tourism exploitation, the managing unit has invested in a wooden staircase system about 1000m long, 2m wide, running in the middle of the cave, to create convenience for tourists to visit. At the same time, a modern lighting system was also installed, adding to the magical beauty of the stalactites in the cave.

Waitamo Firefly Cave, located on the North Island of New Zealand, is special because it is home to billions of fireflies. The limestone formations in the cave are assumed to have formed about 30 million years ago, while still under water.

The crystal cave in Mexico contains the world's largest array of crystals located in Chihuahua, Mexico. The cave is 10m wide and 30m long, including giant selenite crystals up to 12m long, 4m in radius and weighing up to 55 tons. In the future, this cave may no longer exist because of climate change.

Ali Sadr Cave is located about 100 km north of Hamadan, Western Iran. Ali Sadr is the only cave where the water in the cave's lakes is so clear that the bottom can be clearly seen at a depth of 5 meters, even when the light is dim. The stalactites come in many shapes like mustard flowers, conifers or umbrellas, with vibrant colors of red, purple, brown, green and blue.

The Golden Dragon Cave is located at the edge of Xixialing hill, in the West Lake tourist area, Hangzhou city, Zhejiang, China, including semi-natural and semi-artificial scenes. But the most special thing is that the Golden Dragon Cave includes many types of bamboo with different colors, from white, purple to green bamboo with yellow dots, or square bamboo and many other types.

Eisriesenwelt is a natural limestone cave located in Werfen, Austria, in the Tennengebirga mountain range near Salzburg. This cave extends 42 km and is considered the largest ice cave in the world.

The fifth longest in the world, Lechuguilla Cave is located in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico. This cave is famous for its unusual geological structure with very rare shapes, and its lemon-yellow sulfur rocks in pristine condition.

Shimmering, majestic natural caves, with stalactites, stalagmites or lakes in the cave... are considered masterpieces found in many places around the world.