Its amazing that there are still places like this still out there waiting to be explored. A British caving team have just recently explored the world’s largest cave passage in the heart of the Vietnamese jungle. 

Called Hang Son Doong (Mountain River Cave) it is believed to be almost twice the size of the current record holder. Son Doong has replaced the Deer cave in Malaysia to become the world’s largest cave. 

‘It is a truly amazing sized cave and one of the most significant discoveries by a British caving team,’ said Adam Spillane, a member of the 13-man expedition team.

Using a laser measuring device known as the LaserRace 300, which measures height and width, the team are now back in the UK analysing their readings.

The cave was originally discovered in 1991 by a Vietnamese Jungle man called Ho Khanh. However Mr Spillane said no-one had entered if before because: ‘it emitted a frightful wind and noise which was due to a large underground river.’

They spent five days exploring the cave in Vietnam’s Phong Nha-Ke Bang National Park through mid-April.

‘The cave is 6.5km long at present but the end of the main passage still continues with a calcite wall of over 45m high halting our progress,’ Mr Spillane said.’

‘More work on the next expedition is required to make a complete exploration of Hang Son Doong and obtain a complete photographic record of the cave.  ’

 

The Hang Son Doong cave is believed to be almost twice the size of the current record holder.

Here’s a map if you want to go Spelunking.

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Located in Downtown Pyongyang Near the Kim Il Sung Stadium and in the west side of Moran Hill is the abandoned  Kaeson Youth Park.

“It turns out there are three funfairs in Pyongyang in various states of disrepair, the largest being the Kaeson Youth Park.Opened in 1984, it was built to project an image of progress and the ingenuity of its citizens. Backed by Russia and China when they were heavily funding the DPRK’s growth, the Kaeson Youth Park is the largest of three funfairs still in operation in the greater Pyongyang area.”  Source

Meisho Amusement Machines Built the “roller coaster of death” for this fun fair that was originally named ” Kwansong Tancha”. According to the Roller coasters database this rusty steel coaster first opened in 1984 with opening of the park.

Here are some images of what the park looked like when it was open.

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The Roller Coaster of Death, Kaeson Youth Park.

Also Check out  Pyonyang’a infamous Ryugyong Hotel

source via:By:Dahlia Rideout @ divinecaroline 

 

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That's right.
 
Two days ago I wrote about the funny Flickr/Google anomaly that taught the world about the art of upskirting. That fun little link has mysteriously vanished because I ruin everything.
 
So, as a way to make amends, I offer up another "interesting" Flickr feature.
 
The rainbow vomiting, Flickr explore panda.
 
My explanation will be brief and incomplete - Flickr users may recognize the Explore feature as a regular old menu item. As the "Explore" page says "Flickr labs have been hard at work creating a way to show you some of the most awesome content on Flickr."
 
Thus began the quest of a million attention whores to get their awesome photos features on Explore for a day. They schemed, plotted, banded together and collectively whined when their attempts came up fruitless.
 
From this cacophony of narcissistic whining sprung the Secrets of Explore Flickr group to debunk the myths with wisdom such as "No matter how artificially "interesting" you try to make your photos (Explore photos are selected via Flickr's "Interestingness Algorithm", affectionately known as the "Magic Donkey"), Explore is still only 500+ images each day. And each day on Flickr, there are more than five thousand photos uploaded each minute. That's each minute."
 
The panda art became their masthead and in no time Flickr picked it up and integrated it into a secret little "special" explore page.
 

That's right.
 
Two days ago I wrote about the funny Flickr/Google anomaly that taught the world about the art of upskirting. That fun little link has mysteriously vanished because I ruin everything.
 
So, as a way to make amends, I offer up another "interesting" Flickr feature.
 
The rainbow vomiting, Flickr explore panda.
 
My explanation will be brief and incomplete - Flickr users may recognize the Explore feature as a regular old menu item. As the "Explore" page says "Flickr labs have been hard at work creating a way to show you some of the most awesome content on Flickr."
 
Thus began the quest of a million attention whores to get their awesome photos features on Explore for a day. They schemed, plotted, banded together and collectively whined when their attempts came up fruitless.
 
From this cacophony of narcissistic whining sprung the Secrets of Explore Flickr group to debunk the myths with wisdom such as "No matter how artificially "interesting" you try to make your photos (Explore photos are selected via Flickr's "Interestingness Algorithm", affectionately known as the "Magic Donkey"), Explore is still only 500+ images each day. And each day on Flickr, there are more than five thousand photos uploaded each minute. That's each minute."
 
The panda art became their masthead and in no time Flickr picked it up and integrated it into a secret little "special" explore page.