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Drone Captures Stunning Footage Inside World's Largest Cave

Explore Hang Son Doong cave, the world's largest cave, where microclimates and plant life flourish. Experience it through stunning drone footage!

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A drone helped photographer Ryan Deboodt capture this shot within Hang Son Doong cave in Vietnam (yes, those yellow specks are people). (Credit: Vimeo/Ryan Deboodt). Hang Son Doong in Vietnam is the world’s largest cave — one chamber is more than 3 miles long, 660 feet high and 490 feet wide. But just calling Hang Son Doong a cave almost does it a disservice. With its own river, microclimate and jungle, Hang Son Doong is more than a cave; it's a world unto itself. Comprehending the massiveness of Hang Son Doong is incredibly difficult, but this footage of the cave, taken, in part, with a DJI Phantom 2, is a good place to start. Photographer Ryan Deboodt and a team of explorers spent 10 hours meandering through the cave to collect footage for this six-minute video, which is worth all 379 seconds.

The video clip was filmed at three different ...

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