Day 172 One Day Four Caves 26 July 2012

Today we put us in for two cave tours, the main attraction of Gunung Mulu National Park. We started by taking the boat to the cave of Winds, called like that because the difference in air pressure makes it seem like the cave is breathing.

Here is a formation that looks like a camel.

Notice the eagle at Martijn’s foot.

More spectacular was the Clearwater cave, the biggest cave of the park and perhaps of the world.  The water inside the cave was indeed very clear and very cold.

We saw a hairy caterpillar and a pygmy squirrel along the way.

After lunch we walked for about an hour to Lang cave, a cave with some beautiful stalactite and stalagmite formations.

 

The most impressive cave was Deer cave, with the biggest cave passage in the word. It was just amazing to see the huge inside showers in a colossal space.

It also contained a profile of Abraham Lincoln.

Besides Lincoln and the snake the cave has five million other famous inhabitants: bats. We retreated to witness a spectacle of nature with the bats as we saw them all leave the cave, while taking on a spiraling formation, similar to the movements of a snake.

A hawk also found this sight appealing and snatched his dinner.