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Look out for gingers, fungi, insects and orchids along the way. It takes about 10 hours of hiking and a distance of 12 km before reaching Camp 3.Camp 1 is located 5.6 km away from Base Camp and the walk is not too difficult, crossing small streams and rivers. The climb to Gunung Mulu will start with the initial goal to reach Camp 3 from the Base Camp. Always stay together as a group and do not venture away from the trail. Get local guides and porters to go up the summit as the some parts of the trail are not properly marked. A 4-day trek is required with the help of a guide over a distance of 24 km. This is the trail to choose to scale Gunung Mulu. It takes about 10 hours for a return trip to the pinnacles.
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The Pinnacles Trail is for those who are fit but the reward is the magnificent pinnacles that rises 1,200 m. Try the night walks and discover some of the nocturnal animals.Ĭanopy Walk at the 480m Mulu Canopy Skywalk and discover the life of the forest at over 20 m above the ground. Jungle Trekking is another common activity you do. At the Deer Cave, look out for the 100 m mound of guano with cockroaches feeding on it. You will not miss the smell of bats dropping known as guano at the cave floor. These bats leave the caves to look for insects within the vicinity of the forest. The exodus from the caves could last for half an hour or so. Up to 3 million bats stream from the caves in the evening.
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Deer Cave is reputed to be the largest underground river passage in the world and is often said to be big enough to park a jet plane.
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The common ones are Deer Cave, Lang Cave and Clearwater Cave. There are many caves that you can explore with different levels of difficulty. The bats in huge numbers come out of the caves in the evening from 5:30pm to 6:30pm. Over 200 species of bats have been found in the abundance of caves here. Insects include the leaf insects, beetles and cicadas to name a few. Snakes, amphibian, lizards, fishes, Sumatran Rhinoceros, orang utan, wild cattle, monkeys, tarsiers, slow loris, deer, bearded pig and honey bear can be found here. Mosses, lichens and pitcher plants can be found above 1,200 m.īird watchers can spot some of the over 260 species of birds recorded here. From 800 m to 1,200 m, you will find myrtles and oaks. The trees located up to 800 m above sea level include the Dryobalanops and Shorea. Study showed that there are over 3,500 species of plants out of which 2,000 are flowering plants. The diverse vegetation here is an excellent place for botanist to study. Other than that, there are rivers, canyons, flora and fauna that you will experience here. Other caves are Lang Cave, Green Cave, Deer Cave, Racer Cave, Wind Cave, Lagang Cave, Black Rock Cave and Drunken Forest Cave. The world's longest cave passage at 51.5km is located at Clearwater Cave. The Sarawak Chamber is the largest known cave chamber in the world with 600m X 415m X 80m in length, width and height. These caves are the home to millions of bats and swiftlets bird and you will most probably spot them here. The park has over 295 km of explored limestone caves. The tallest mountain in Sarawak is Gunung Murud. This mountain is the second highest in Sarawak and the fifth in Malaysia. The highest peak here is Gunung Mulu with a height of 2,377 m with sandstone pinnacle.