Amazing Caves of Gunung Mulu National Park Sarawak Malaysia
Rafflesia – world’s biggest flower is the main attraction of Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak Malaysia. This is Asia’s best park to view this flower.
Rafflesia flower is a rare one with short blooming period. So your luck factor plays a crucial role for your visit to coincide with the blooming period. It is possible to check with park officials to know when a flower is about to bloom.
Other activities in Gunung Mulu National Park are tours to show caves and adventure caves with difficulty levels ranging from low to extreme.
A stretch of 295km of explored caves here are home to thousands of bats. A sand stone pinnacle, Gunung Mulu, 2,377 m high dominates the National Park.
Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak Malaysia (Picture courtesy: Beehive Communications.)
One day won’t suffice to tour the entire stretch. Four to five days will be ideal. There are plenty of hotels.
The walks organized are filled with adventures taking you through various caves like Moonmilk cave, Deer cave, Wind cave.
Try to plan with time enough to explore 3 main Caves of Gunung Mulu National Park: Sarawak Chamber, which is popular as the world’s largest underground chambers, Deer Cave, it is the largest cave passage in the world, and lastly Clearwater Cave, the longest cave system in Southeast Asia.
The show caves are impressive with a number of beautiful stalagmites and stalactites growths. A decent level of fitness would be required to squeeze yourself through some tight spaces, though you don’t have to be an experienced trekker or climber. Besides bats, this National Park is a natural habitat for wide variety of plant and animal species.
This National Park was included in UNESCO World Heritage site in 2000.
Important both for its high biodiversity and for its karst features, Gunung Mulu National Park, is located on the island of Borneo in the State of Sarawak. The Sarawak Chamber measuring 600 m by 415 m and 80 m high is the largest known cave chamber in the world.
(This post is an advertisement feature for Tourism Malaysia Campaign.)
Thank you for sharing such a magnificent photo!
Did they film Avatar here? Just kidding! Wow, amazing, if I had a list of places to go in a lifetime, I'd add it! 🙂 Danica
Glad to learn about this park. The info will come handy while visiting Malaysia next year.
The place looks quite interesting. Nice shot.
http://rajniranjandas.blogspot.in
WOW! Looks like a fairytale. What a beautiful place and photo. Very good work Indrani:-)
Hope you have a happy week ahead
A phenomenal picture and a great write-up!
Surreal!
Wow wow wow wow wow! So gorgeous!
How breathtaking! Very atmospheric with low light and reflections.
Sounds like an amazing park! Thanks for the information.
Great shot out there!!
That is a phenomenal photo! Thanks for the story, too.
what a beautiful reflection.
Lovely and informative post ~ (A Creative Harbor)
Liebe Indrani, dieses Foto ist ein grossartiges kleine Kunstwerk!
Liebe grüsse aus der Schweiz
Hans-Peter
I love this landscape, beautiful and exquisite light reflection. Greetings.
This is one of the most breathtaking captures that I have seen in a while! What a gorgeous place! Incredible light and amazing reflections! Superb, Indrani!!