The limestone mountains of Indochina

Have you ever seen Goldfinger, the classic 007-thriller that follows one of the largest auto and boat in the history of Hollywood, mysterious and beautiful land in the islands of the Andaman Sea, where the headquarters of the evil Dr. No?

Limestone is curious to train and beautiful formations of the known world: usually caves, cliffs and mountains, but from time to time. One of the properties of limestone that is (geologically seen anyway) is eroded rapidly in water.While tens of thousands of water erosion or even millions of years to produce other rock formations like the Grand Canyon, the limestone formations will change hundreds of years, depending on their size.

The largest range of limestone mountains and cliffs that stretches from south-eastern China (you can see it in prints and paintings, as a brush almost vertical hill) and through Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, central, southern Thailand, and finally fromAndaman down to Sumatra.

Although all these formations are impressive, is the island formations, which are the most curious: not only weaken their bases at sea, so that a reverse effect bombed a few islands are bathed by the sea breezes and storms. Some islands, such as chicken Iceland are very important, while other formations such as caves that are part of the larger islands are lagoons is secret, and other exoticCharacteristics.

Islands in the Andaman Sea, and all the limestone, in fact, a day of crash back to the land condemned. In the sea, the process is faster and a lot of cliffs on the islands of considerable lean towards the sea. Some of them have great faces painted them, watches over the safety of fishermen.