In the morning, the light can penetrable cave. The mouth of the cave is the place where tourist camp and sleeping over in the second night. There is a flow from the ceiling inside Pygmy cave. It is used as drinking, eating and subsistence water. The expedition tour is about 3 days and 2 nights will give you a wonderful chance to explore the Pygmy Cave.Accordingly, visitors to central Quang Binh Province will get a chance to visit three caves that were recently discovered in the territory of local Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park. The province People’s Committee has allowed a local company, Jungle Boss, to exploit the caves of Pygmy, Over and Dai A for tourism purposes. The caves are adjacent, with Pygmy 845m long, Dai A 1,616m long, and Over 3,244m long. There are part of the Vom cave system in the park’s ecological restoration zone.Dai A Cave, previously known as Tiger Cave, stretches 1,616 meters in length and reaches as deep as 46 meters from its opening, which measures … [Read more...] about Quang Binh Province to open expedition tours exploring the world’s fourth largest cave
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Jungle wanderers left in the lurch by Quang Binh authorities
A community in central Vietnam that has been wandering around for years in the jungle seeking to avoid starvation and find some land to ensure subsistence has received little help from Quang Binh authorities thus far. Villagers from Doong Hamlet in Quang Binh Province live on the edge of starvation in temporary houses. The chairman of the provincial People’s Committee, Phan Lam Phuong, told Thanh Nien Friday he was not aware of the problem. “I have not heard about it,†he said. “No one has reported it to me, even during recent meetings of the committees. I will order the issue examined.†Nineteen years after the first family settled in Bo Trach District’s Doong Hamlet in the Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park, the community decided to move to a new place last month. The hamlet of 11 households with 49 people had been suffering a shortage of food for the past few years after their five hectares of farming land became unusable. Past floods had dumped sand on their … [Read more...] about Jungle wanderers left in the lurch by Quang Binh authorities
Rare ancient rock rats found in Quang Binh
Experts call for urgent conservation of the rodent species, and local delicacy, belonging to an 11-million year old family Laotian rock rats (Laonastes aenigmamus) for sale at a market in Laos' Khammouan Province. Scientists in Vietnam found three dead specimens from the 11-million-year-old species in Quang Binh Province's Phong Nha Ke Bang National Park last week. … [Read more...] about Rare ancient rock rats found in Quang Binh
Typhoon Lekima strikes central Ha Tinh, Quang Binh provinces
Strengthened typhoon Lekima with wind gusts of 103-133 kph struck the central coastal provinces of Ha Tinh and Quang Binh on October 3, the National Meteorological Forecasting Centre reported. At 7pm, Lekima was located at 17.9 degrees north and 106.4 degrees east, forecasters said. According to initial reports, the typhoon severely damaged nearly 200 houses and destroyed three fishing boats in Quang Trach district, Quang Binh province. The typhoon caused heavy rains in Quang Binh’s Le Thuy and Minh Hoa districts. An hour after it struck Ky Anh district, Ha Tinh province, the typhoon had left hundreds of houses unroofed and many people injured. According to Ha Tinh People’s Committee vice chairman Tran Minh Ky, the district suffered a black-out, causing further difficulties in coping with the typhoon. Rising sea levels and flood-tides also seriously threatened dikes in the districts of Cam Xuyen, Nghi Xuan, Ky Anh and Ta Nghen. The province mobilised 400 soldiers to … [Read more...] about Typhoon Lekima strikes central Ha Tinh, Quang Binh provinces
Quang Binh’s shamans continue to find patients in age of clinics
Most remote villagers now seek medical attention at hospitals or clinics, but some still rely on traditional healers Ac applies betel leaves to a patient at her house in Kim Thuy Commune in Quang Binh Province’s Le Thuy District The sick come to Ac’s house in Kim Thuy Commune of Le Thuy District without any prescription. Like all of the healers who we spoke to for this article, Ac resides in Quang Binh—a generally poor province sandwiched between the East Sea and Laos. Each rural district in Quang Binh contains a clinic, but many of the ethnic minorities living in the hills turn to people like Ac, for traditional remedies rendered through rituals, herbal remedies and the spraying of homemade alcohol on affected areas—a process known as “blowing illnesses away.” “My paternal grandfather began teaching me the profession when I was 14,” Ac said. “Training was very difficult and demanding. I had to avoid eating snake-head fish, … [Read more...] about Quang Binh’s shamans continue to find patients in age of clinics