Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park (Natural World Heritage)

Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park is in Quang Binh – Central of Vietnam. With an area of ​​about 200,000 hectares, Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park is located in the district of Quang Ninh, Bo Trach, Tuyen Hoa and Minh Hoa and is 50km away from Dong Hoi City.

Besides the historical value of geology, topography, geomorphology, Phong Nha – Ke Bang is also endowed with the mysterious and majestic landscapes.  Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park still hides the mysteries of nature, the caves look like the splendid castle in the heart of the limestone created from millions years ago.

 Phong Nha – Ke Bang is considered as a hugely valued geological museum with global mean due to complex geographic structure which contains a set of different rock types as sandstone, quartzite, schist, siliceous limestone, granodiorite stone, diorite stone, aplite stone, pegmatite … Phong Nha – Ke Bang also contains histories about the complex geological development lasting from 400 million years ago of the earth. Over time and tectonic phase, fault movement, coordination platform, folding created rolling mountain ranges and sedimentary basins subsided. These fluctuations also contributed to the diversity of geology, topography and geomorphology.

Phong Nha – Ke Bang limestone region has the global characteristic in many stages of development from the late Ordovician age – Silurian (463.9 to 430 million years ago) to the Quaternary (1.75 million years ago). Another unique feature is the system of underground rivers and caves in the limestone mountains.

Located in the area with very high average annualprecipitation but its water has soaked into and flowed in underground in the limestone over millions of years and created numerous caves in the area. In Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park, there are about 300 large and small caves divided into three main systems: Phong Nha cave system, dome cave system and Ruc Mon cave system

Phong Nha - Ke Bang National Park (Natural World Heritage)