February 8, 2012 Perspective

CaliforniaMama · 02-09-2012, 08:48 AM

Hidden in rugged Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park near the border with Laos, is
Hang En, a cave tunneled out by the Rao Thuong River, Vietnam. It is a mile-long portal that tunnels beneath a ring of mountains into the lost world of a network of 150 or so caves in the Annamite Mountains.

From the National Geographic story Conquering an Infinite Cave
Photograph by Carsten Peter

There I go, time travelin' again.

glatt · 02-09-2012, 08:51 AM

That's really cool. What a huge cave!

Pete Zicato · 02-09-2012, 08:56 AM

But Cali. You don't seem to have the larger font thing down yet.

Spexxvet · 02-09-2012, 09:51 AM

I see a Sleestak!

BigV · 02-09-2012, 09:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Pete Zicato

But Cali. You don't seem to have the larger font thing down yet.

PERSPECTIVE Pete, Perspective. The font **IS** larger, but that cave...

ZenGum · 02-09-2012, 07:17 PM

at V.

and ... whooooaaaaaahhhhhhhh.

Mind you ...

Quote:

It is a mile-long portal that tunnels beneath a ring of mountains into the lost world of a network of 150 or so caves in the Annamite Mountains.

Suggest Tolkien was not as original as I had assumed.

Aliantha · 02-09-2012, 09:11 PM

It's highly possible he didn't know anything about these caves though. (pardon my need to defend Tolkien, but his stories are just incredible and I'd rather keep my illusions about his imagination in tact.)

Sundae · 02-10-2012, 01:13 PM

Caves under mountains and mines which utilise them have existed as long as mankind has been capable of exploring them.
Tolkien was mining a rich seam there (ouch, sorry).

Although he didn't grow up in a mining community, he was very much aware of it. He used to watch the coal trucks going to and from Wales. It's referenced in Genesis, U A Fanthorpe's poem about him (posted somewhere on the Cellar)

02-09-2012, 08:48 AM	#1
CaliforniaMama I wonder . . . Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: The Left Coast, a pretty good place to be. Posts: 1,278	February 8, 2012 Perspective Hidden in rugged Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park near the border with Laos, is Hang En, a cave tunneled out by the Rao Thuong River, Vietnam. It is a mile-long portal that tunnels beneath a ring of mountains into the lost world of a network of 150 or so caves in the Annamite Mountains. From the National Geographic story Conquering an Infinite Cave Photograph by Carsten Peter There I go, time travelin' again.

02-09-2012, 08:56 AM	#3
Pete Zicato Turns out my CRS is a symptom of TMB. Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Chicago suburbs Posts: 2,916	But Cali. You don't seem to have the larger font thing down yet. __________________ Talk nerdy to me.

02-09-2012, 09:51 AM	#4
Spexxvet Makes some feel uncomfortable Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 10,346	I see a Sleestak! __________________ "I'm certainly free, nay compelled, to spread the gospel of Spex. " - xoxoxoBruce

02-09-2012, 09:11 PM	#7
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	It's highly possible he didn't know anything about these caves though. (pardon my need to defend Tolkien, but his stories are just incredible and I'd rather keep my illusions about his imagination in tact.) __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

02-10-2012, 01:13 PM	#8
Sundae polaroid of perfection Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: West Yorkshire Posts: 24,185	Caves under mountains and mines which utilise them have existed as long as mankind has been capable of exploring them. Tolkien was mining a rich seam there (ouch, sorry). Although he didn't grow up in a mining community, he was very much aware of it. He used to watch the coal trucks going to and from Wales. It's referenced in Genesis, U A Fanthorpe's poem about him (posted somewhere on the Cellar) __________________ Life's hard you know, so strike a pose on a Cadillac

02-09-2012, 08:51 AM	#2
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	That's really cool. What a huge cave!

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