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1. The 4 Show Caves
The Mulu Caves in Sarawak’s Gunung Mulu National Park enraptures
visitors with its ingenious display of the wonders of nature at
its best. The Mulu Caves, being one of the biggest, most extensive
and most spectacular cave system in the world is indeed a marvel
with superlative of sorts.
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Although most of the Mulu
Cave are accessible only to qualified caving expeditions with specialised
equipments, there are 4 show caves with proper neccessities for
the amatuer adventurers such as plank walkways and lights connecting
all the interesting spots of each cave:
The Deer Cave
The Deer Cave is known to have the world’s largest cave passage.
The magnitude has been said to deft all descripitions. Experience
the colossal grandeur of this cave which incidentally is home to
a metropolis-sized population of 2 million bats that stream out
of the entrance every evening. Other visible inhabitants of this
cave are swittlets, earwigs, centipedes, spiders, crickets, scorpions,
white crab etc.
The Deer Cave features its most profile
of Abraham Lincoln in the rock formation at the southern entrance
on the cave.
This cave is also the gateway to the Garden of Eden, a luxuriant
forest. This gateway is at the end of the walkway where you can
marvel at the spectacle of the Adam and Eve’s Showers.
A three kilometer long walkway links the Deer Cave with the Park Headquarters.
The Lang’s Cave
A few minutes walk, form the southern entrance
to the Deer Cave, is this small cosy illuminated cave with long
shawls, layers of rimstone pools on the floor and spectacular stalagmites
and stalactites at close range.
The Lang’s Cave is a younger cave where one can feel how it is alive and growing.
The close-ups of all the intricate formations
in this cave make the visitor’s experience more personal;
“everything in this cave is what you imagine it to be.”
The Clearwater Cave
The Clearwater Cave are accessible by boat
up the Melinau River from the Park’s Headquarter’s or
a 4km nature trail.
With passages running about 108km in length underground, the Clearwater Cave is Asia’s longest cave. Its name comes from the crystalline water of the river inside which is purified as it passes through limestone.
Near the entrance of this cave is a tantalising small emerald pool
– perfect for a soothing dip after braving through the jungle
heat.
The Wind Cave
True to its name. At the Wind Cave, one will
be greeted by a cool gust of breeze at its entrance which can be
felt in certain parts of the cave. The rippled walls in a narrow
passage leading to the King’s Room (a chamber of impressive
regal looking stalactites and stalagmites are actually a consequence
of the actions of the blowing wind).
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