The Great Niah Caves
Trip Start
Mar 24, 2010
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Trip End
Mar 31, 2011
Where I stayed
Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Friday 12th November
We were picked up at 9:00am by our driver in a beaten up Honda. We drove for 1 and half hours to the park chatting to the driver about Malaysia, it people and history, quite a nice guy, pitty his car was falling apart though. Once at the park HQ we signed in and then took a boat directly across a 10m wide river, not sure why they have built a bridge, the jetty looked pretty modern – they might of well added a couple of metres on each one so they met in the middle. We then proceeded to walk the 4.1km to the Niah Caves on a wooden walkway through the rainforest.
Along the way we saw some more Macaque Monkeys hurtling through the trees and manly small lizards scuttling away from us. After an hour we reached the mouth of the cave which was absolutely massive and had a crazy amount of Swiftlets Birds (very small agile birds) darting around the cave. Their nests are on the roof of the cave and people collect these and sell them to the Chinese for their delicacy of 'Birds Nest Soup'. We carried on up into the cave admiring the vastness of it from the very back of the main entrance. We then carried on further through a narrow tunnel for a couple of hundred metres in the pitch black and then finally came out at different cave entrance. Overall it was a pretty impressive place and a overwhelming huge space, thankfully though we came out without either bird or bat crap on us.
Comments
Amazing photos - but where are the bats - dont tell me they only come out at night!!!
Fantastic photos!