Mulu Caves and Pinnacles, Sarawak
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28 Jan - 2 Feb 2010 - Mulu Caves, Camp 5, Pinnacles and Longhouse
Air asia flight to Miri
Meet Yazmi
Curry Pasta... to eat famous Sarawak Laksa
Taking orders... the chinese cook...
Makan Lunch
Yummy yummy....
We all just nice can fit in Yazmi's viva...
Stop by near a river....beware of crocs...
Stop by at Chinese Temple...
Drop by at Yazmi's house for a few seconds....
Rosmah, the one eyed cat...
Target practice
Yazmi showing Ong and the rest how to use the bow and arrow..
Very cool and high tech looking archery equipment...
Ok, time to take MasWings flight to Mulu
Meet John our guide...
Get on the transport to Mulu National Park HQ
Starts to rain...
Walk short distance to HQ office
Office
John help us to check in to the hostel .. carry plastic bags with the bedsheets and towels.
Ok, this is the hostel/dorm .. where to sleep...
Fix your own bedsheet
Got a nice space for exhibition
John gives briefing.. decide to go caving tomorrow
today just walk around.. see some bats..
Everybody get ready for a walk
Ok, just walk down this platform and you will reach the Deer cave... about half hour walk if 'baca buku'
On the way can see lots of plants and insects...
Take photo of bug..
Walk walk...
Ok reach the place...
Here they have a platform for tourist to sit down, and wait for the bats to come out
Millions of bats coming out... starting from 5.30pm
More and more bats coming out.. our lucky day...
Getting more and more tourist...
Ok, finish, go back...
Meet up with other trekkers
Long walk back
Dinnertime, order food... this is the kitchen cafe..
Lots of mat salleh and other tourist...
Order Nasi Lemak
Bug in the corridor..
Next day, walk to canopy walk...
Canopy walk guide showing us around...
Big tree
Ong and Mee Ling
Very educational...
Walk lah... I think we spent about 1 hour here...
Interesting bark
Ok finish canopy walk...
Take some more photos...
I can't take clear photo of the bugs, so I show photo of Ong taking photo of the bug....
Ok, next time to take a boat to our adventure caving
Introduce ourselves to the Adventure Caving guide....
Whoo hoo
Ok reach the Racer Cave
Racer Cave, named after the snakes you can find there..
Adventure caving, they provide the helmets with headlamps
better to wear gloves... Our guide demonstrates how to go up the first rope section
Cute snake waiting in a hole...
Lots of spiders too...
Looking at some bugs/cave formations
Cricket.... food for the spiders...
Who put the handprints on the walls
Another climb up with rope ...
John (Spiderman) is the sweeper
Jenny explaining something...
Ok finish, everybody all dirty already
Wait for the sampan
Go back to National Park HQ to have our pack lunch
Nasi Goreng, with fried chicken, with a green apple and some chocolate wafer
Next, go visit the show caves ... Deer Cave and Lang Cave
I guess this is the only close up bug photo that turned out on my camera..
Deer Cave ... long time a go used to have alot of deer here...
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Bugs eating guano
In the Deer cave .... got steps
Baby bat fallen down... still alive... some bugs trying to eat it...
Garden of Eden ....that's the end of the Deer cave... where the roof caved in and all the rocks accumulate there, so trees started growing..
Lang cave... smaller cave with beautiful cave formations
Limestone gets disolved by water, then the water deposits the limestone to form amazing shapes...
Looks better in real life... don't turn out in photos...
Nice
Not stalagtites.... looks like sharks fin
Ok, want to see bats again... but raining.. bats not coming out..
Back to our room....
Can boil water to drink here...
Dinner time... ordered some veg to go with rice...
Next day breakfast... ready to check out....
All packed ...
Stop by at office, met Jenny again (our adv. caving guide) .. sign log book
Get in the boat... put everything in the boat...
Edwin and Kelly all set....
First, stop at the Penan village
Penan village... John's kampung....
Gereja..
See some kids
Misty view
Got something to read here
Villagers selling some handicraft
Liana tree seeds...
Basket
Move on to the next stop....
Pick up our lady cook...
Next stop windcave and clearwater cave
Walk up to wind cave
Like many other caves around here, formed by rivers many years ago,
and you can see ripple formations ....
This feature is called moon milk... some bacteria covering the cave walls and formations, making everything look white....
This part there an opening in the roof... you gotta see it with your own eyes lah...
Short 10min walk to clearwater cave
Mini pinnacles
Can swim here...
This is suppose to be the famous single leaf plant
This particular species that looks like banana leaf, only can be found here in clearwater cave... the only place in the world you can find this leaf...
Single Leaf Plant
Makan time... yeah John prepare lots of food....
Must eat...
Ok... start of the trek to Camp 5... was raining abit on the way here in the boat..
Jalan jalan... this trail we walk very fast.. finish in 2 hours... 8km only I think
Yeah...
Almost there
Yeah reach already...
Camp 5... meet up with other trekker new friends..
Unpack... sleep here...only 6 of us in this room...
Nice suspension bridge to the headhunter trail
Take a bath
Mee Ling help me wash hair...
Tea Time
Our cook cooking in the kitchen
Dinner time
Dinner with John... we get to see his Penan style haircut...
Next morning, all set for Camp 5
Up up and up.... I'm wearing kampung adidas...
Mini pinnacles.... these are hard limestone...
walk some more....
Almost reaching the ladders part
First ladder... better reach here by 11am or else you gotta turn back...
This part with the ropes and ladders quite nice like an
obstacle course... got 15 ladders altogether ... and now can see some moss..
Use the rope, but don't put your whole weight on it...
Is it misty or is my camera lense misty
Yay reach already, before 11am
The pinnacles... amazing sight ... beautiful
Got signal... Meeling and Ong give Ben a call...
Me...
Have our pack lunch.... Ong carried up 4 cans of 100plus for us...
Ok... climb back down... becareful...
Walk down slowly... starts to rain ....
I reach back camp 5 around 3.30pm .... huh... tired...
Dinner time....
Next morning at camp 5
All set .. all packed
Start the Head Hunter's trail...
View of camp 5 from other side
This place got some durians... can come here to pick durians..
but we didn't eat here lah... how to carry
Saw a green snake... this snake is suppose to be more poisonous than a cobra
Huh... 9 more km... mee ling kena a leech...
Cross a rope bridge
Rest here for a while
Finish.... horible horrible !!!!
Get on a boat...
Park HQ on the other side... have lunch here and toilet
Nice boatride to Limbang longhouse
About 2 hours boatride, lucky thing just rained, so river flows faster...
Some villagers
This part is already teh tarik water
Ok reach the village
Welcome to Kg Panjang Kuala Mendalam
Short walk to longhouse
Chickens...
Living room
Can play football here
One of the uncles/boatman open durians for us
Yummy yummy... since camp 5 already asking for durians.. now can enjoy
Close up of durian
Some other durian species... long torn
Jalan jalan outside in the kampung
This is Jamry... apparently he goes to KL to train in Bukit Jalil
He's is an Olympic swimmer.... freestyle and butterfly
Mata kucing
Go visit a school nearby... nice school....
Take photo with kids
Singing songs..
Ok finish...
Oh, our neighbour also let us sample some durians...
Orange colour durian... taste like nangka...
See them doing some weaving
Langsat
Dinner time .. aunty cooked some food for us
Cabbage, Curry chicken, pumpkin, and some soup
Selling some stuff
Sleep here... use mosquito net..... ah.. the kampung life
Ok, next day ready to move
Bye bye to aunty and the uncle Payung ...
lots of chickens...
Ok ok bye bye.. sit boat again
Boat to limbang
Van pick us up and take us to town
Have lunch in limbang
Pork.... wan tan pork.... intestines...
Lepak here in the Limbang shopping mall while waiting for flight
Limbang airport
Can dry clothes here... heh heh...
Back to miri.... its Yazmi again !!!
Quickly go out ... limited time.. go and try this Durian...
different species...
Kelly and meeling ta pau some back to KL... the smell not so strong so its ok..
Last meal in miri... have a quick dinner... some rojak/roti canai ....
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