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Sungai Melinau, CDT 62, Mulu Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia, 85-790100
Time for National Park Number 3. You can only get to Mulu National Park by boat or plane and we ended up booking a rather expensive 5 day trip. Was it worth it?, I hear you cry. Well... It started so well... The Mulu Resort Hotel was waaaaay better than the dingy filthy dorms we'd been used to and we began the trip with a leisurely afternoon of wandering around Mulu's extensive cave system which is indeed very impressive. Deer Cave is home to millions of bats and at dusk, they put on a specta...
Limbang, Malaysia flailThe river is the only way to travel in this region. Larry, my guide, and I hit it off pretty well and whilst the others had a free afternoon he and I went upriver in the boat to a couple of villages. At one of then they had recently harvested so rice and one of the men was getting the grains off the stalks by using his feet to crush them on the hard floor. This separated the two. About half a dozen villagers sat and watched him. I wondered why they didn't help. Maybe because it was a hot and ...
Mulu, Sarawak, Malaysia nas.latifAbout 30 mins by plane is the Gunung National Park which is a World Heritage Area. Of the 250 kms of caves in region just over half have been explored. Only 4 of them are on show to the public by having walkways and lighting within. I had booked into the Resort which seemed to be of the 4 or 5 star standard and a great contrast to the hostels that I normally used. It was alleged that the place was owned by the Chief Minister's sister and Price Albert of Monaco had stayed there. So it was nice...
Mulu, Sarawak, Malaysia nas.latifGunung Mulu national park is a vast expanse of virgin rainforest and jungle in eastern Sarawak. The endless sea of green stretching for miles, trees, vines mountains and rivers intermingling like a single 100million year old organism embracing and cooling the earth beneath. Like the bowels of this vast organism the caves, some many kilometers long, of mulu house one of the wonders of the natural world, the vast bat swarms of the Deer Cave. Walking into this massive cave chamber the stench of ...
Mulu National Park, Malaysia tnicol27th Dec 2007 : We flew from Kuala Lumpur to Miri by Malaysian Airlines and from Miri, took a MasWings fokker plane to Mulu. Quite an amazing experience being in such a small plane but there´s nothing to fear, really! Mulu is situated on the northwestern part of Sarawak, the larger of the 2 Malaysian states in the vast Borneo island. The airport is just a really tiny one and Mulu is like a little cowboy town - nothing much seems to be happening here. Most tourists come to this part of the wor...
Mulu, Malaysia xuanargi
... I cheerfully explained and he cheerfully retorted that we still had a 10 minutes' walk to clear Brunei Immigration! No cooler, but we trolled off towards Brunei, dragging a trolley bag each and a backpack. Such adventurers.<br>Only 3 minutes later and we were standing in a line of cars waiting to go through Immigration - we must have been quite a sight! Formalities completed, we stood at the Brunei border compound and waited for Vanessa to collect us - in ...
Kuala Belait, Brunei geoffnsteph... and the return walk even more interesting. As our plans hadn't been finalised until recently we had to book our Air Asia flight from Miri to Kota Kinabalu at the very last minute for the following afternoon. That night we went to a great little cafe with the Danish guy. We are so jealous of the Danish (and in fact many other European countries) because it is normal for them to get six weeks holiday a year and be able to take up to four weeks off at a ...
Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia tomandchrissy... légèrement amusé et me demande, me toisant de haut en bas, si j'ai bien pris ma lampe de poche. Fier comme Artaban, tel un sabre, ma lampe de poche de lecture nocturne le gifle du regard. Il me sourit, jaune, et me souhaite bon amusement. Deux heures après, je me retrouve, pendant un bon kilomètre, sous terre, dans un noir presque complet, l'éclairage produit par la lampe ...
Miri, Malaysia pvdyckPlease excuse if there is some funny writing in here, I am using a swedish computer and there are some funny letters were some punctuation should be... When we got to the first park we went for a short stroll and then settled in. We didn't do much that day but planned to hike to a beach the next day. At dinner that night, rice or noodles?, we saw the biggest bug I have ever seen, he was huge, and gave cindi a bit of a fright. There is no beer served in ...
Miri, Malaysia bethj... we get off the bus at what we thought was Batu Niah we find we are not at Batu Niah but the intersection of the road to Batu Niah. There a very interesting Food Court here, especially if you head back to the johns. It's a reptile and fish zoo back there; turtles, weird fish in tanks, alligators and other strange creatures. One of the food vendors offers to take us to the Batu Niah Cave Park for RM40.00. So we pile our luggage into her trunk ...
Batu Niah, Malaysia yoni
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