{"id":10789,"date":"2021-01-20T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2021-01-20T09:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3118506\/vietnam-worlds-largest-cave-still-attracting-tourists-only"},"modified":"2021-01-20T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-20T09:45:14","slug":"in-vietnam-worlds-largest-cave-still-attracting-tourists-but-only-locals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/20\/in-vietnam-worlds-largest-cave-still-attracting-tourists-but-only-locals\/","title":{"rendered":"In Vietnam, world\u2019s largest cave still attracting tourists \u2013 but only locals"},"content":{"rendered":"Vast rock formations the size of multistorey buildings loom above Ho Minh Phuc, as he picks a path through the gloom inside the world\u2019s largest cave.Phuc, who once earned a living through illegal logging, is a porter for the small tour groups that explore Vietnam\u2019s Son Doong \u2013 a cave so large it has its own ecosystem and weather patterns.Home to flying foxes and a 70-metre rock formation resembling a dog\u2019s paw, the cave is an otherworldly wonder that has reshaped the lives of the surrounding\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/asia\/southeast-asia\/article\/3118506\/vietnam-worlds-largest-cave-still-attracting-tourists-only\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vast rock formations the size of multistorey buildings loom above Ho Minh Phuc, as he picks a path through the gloom inside the world\u2019s largest cave.Phuc, who once earned a living through illegal logging, is a porter for the small tour groups that expl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10790,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10789\/revisions\/10790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}