Quang Binh (VNA) – The first seaplane flights between Dong Hoi in thenorth-central coastal province of Quang Binh and the central coastal city of DaNang will be launched from May 4 by Hai Au Aviation JSC.
Using 12-passenger Cessna craft, the flights will offer sightseeing of QuangBinh province’s Phong Nha – Ke Bang National Park, a world natural heritagesite.
Tickets for charter flights requested during the week are estimated at 3,300USD per flight, while regular flights on Saturdays and Sundays cost 300 USD perticket. The flight time is about one hour.
These promotion tickets will be offered from May 4 to September 20, 2019. Afterthat, the company will announce new prices.
A test flight on the route was conducted successfully on April 18.
Phong Nha – Ke Bang is dubbed the “Kingdom of Caves”for the magnificent specimens it boasts. It was twice recognised as worldnatural heritage sites by UNESCO in 2003 and 2015.
Son Doong, located in the heart of the Phong Nha – KeBang Nation Park, is the world’s largest cave recognised by three internationalorganisations, namely Guinness (based in the UK), the Association World Record(based in Hong Kong) and WorldKings (based in the US and India).
The1,645m-long cave system, which extends through a mountain, was named one of themost captivating on earth by National Geographic. It was discovered by a localin 1991 and first explored in 2009 by the British Cave Research Association,and has been open to the public since 2013.
Meanwhile, another cave, the Thien Duong, was labelledthe world’s most beautiful and magnificent when it was discovered by scientistsfrom the British Cave Research Association in 2005.
Located4 km west of the North-South Ho Chi Minh Road, the caveis surrounded by underground streams and rocky mountains.
ThienDuong Cave is 30-100 metres wide, with the widest point measuring 150 metres.With a length of more than 36 km, it is considered the longest dry cave inAsia.
BesidesSon Doong and Thien Duong, other well-known caves include En and Pygmy, whichare said to be the third and fourth biggest in the world.
In 2018, Quang Binh welcomed some 3.9 millionvisitors, a year-on-year rise of 18.2 percent – including 200,000 foreigners,up 53.8 percent. The tourism sector raked in nearly 4.5 trillion VND (more than192 million USD) in the year.
The province aims to welcome 4.3 million touristsin 2019, including 250,000 foreigners, and gross in excess of 4.5 trillion VNDin revenue.-VNA
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