Mulu National Park - Borneo

Having conquered Mount Kinabalu, we went to a more peaceful destination - Mulu National Park. It's famous for a large number of caves, that include both - easily accessible ones and advanced level caves for experienced adventurers. Apart from that - it's a nice jungle experience, that's my favorite part here.

We arrived in Mulu with small delay.. the 30-minute long flight was delayed by 6 hours, so we missed our cave tour that day and only got our rooms at Mulu Park HQ in a longhouse. It was pretty nicely arranged, spacious and clean room with attached bathroom (this one was not perfect, but still doable). There were quite a lot of mosquitoes, as expected, but not as much as some reported.
Since there was nothing to see anymore the first day, we got all our trips on the second one, that includes Canopy Walk, Paku Waterfall and Deer & Lang's Caves. We are not experienced cavers so we didn't dare to try any of the advanced caves. And anyway we didn't know if we like to explore caves or not.

The first activity in the morning was the Canopy Walk - a tree-top hanging walkway that has around 480 meters and is claimed to be the longest in the world. It's quite scary when you're walking there and everything is moving. We didn't see too many interesting animals, but the experience itself is nice.

Having completed that, we headed straight to Paku Waterfall that is around 30 minutes walk from the main pathway. It's a nice experience to go thru the rainforest in a strong sun trying to break thru a dense cover of trees and other vegetation. The waterfall itself is not too special, but quite picturesque. However, the interesting part is that water is coming our from the side of the river, from cave formations.

Overall, in all our escapades into the jungle we were always spotting plenty of different insects, colorful butterflies, many centipedes, lizards and birds.

The last activity for the day was a tour to Deer and Lang's Caves. Again the same way thru the rainforest, but slightly further than during previous walks. The Lang's Cave is smaller but very rich in stalactites, stalagmites, columns and other formations. It's quite a picturesque place. On the other hand, the Deer Cave is extremely big cave, one of the biggest in the world. It's a home for thousands of bats and many other wild animals including some poisonous snakes, one of which chose the tourist's pathway as it's resting place.

After checking the Cave full of bats' guano, we headed outside and waited for famous bat exodus. It was a sunny afternoon, no rain, so we were lucky to experience thousands of bats flying out from Deer Cave in a snake-like formations every few minutes. That lasted for around 15-30 minutes and we were heading back home, in the dark, thru the jungle - unforgettable :-)

One the last day we just checked out and walked slowly to the nearby Mulu Airport, that handles merely a few flights per day. Mulu overall is a quiet and peaceful place, good to rest from everyday rush in a big city.