Sarawak trip- Miri & Mulu National Park

Day 5
Another bad experience for us to travel for 8 hours by bus to Miri. There's no highway, so the bus was moving in those bumpy road, some times even the sandy or road with rocks. I don't really remember how many times the bus had stopped for each small town, what my advice to you is that, don't drink too much water before you board the bus! There 's no resthouse along the way, all I could see was the forest, trees , the only place you can get rid of the urine is the small bus station the bus stopped every 2-3 hours.
It was difficult for us to sleep, so we ended up chatting, talking nonsense for the last 3 hours before we could finally reached. In Sarawak, it is dark around 6 something in the evening, so can you imagine all those people kept going down the bus in the middle of the journey, in place i could only see darkness, trees, forests, I wonder where they stayed at ? some where in the middle of the jungle?

We spent our last 3 days in Mulu National Park. We board the Maswing to Mulu since there are only two means to reach there, either by plane or by 10 hours boat.It was the most expensive part of our trip I guess due to the airplane ticket. It just took us 25minutes to the Mulu airport, a very small one without air-conditioner.

Taken at the balcony of our hostel. Since it was really an 'ulu' place, our hostel only had electricity supply from 6.30pm-11.30pm, meaning that we can't have nap during noon time, have to be in bed before 11.30pm.

Here we are at the entrance of the headquarter and the hanging bridge. During the 1st day, we went to the Deer Cave and the Lang Cave. We had to trek around an hour to reach the caves. We saw a lots of creatures and unique plants along the way.

Guess what's this? A ball? It's actually a flat insect which will roll itself when being touched.

Deer Cave is the largest cave in the world- it got it's name as there were lotz deer staying in the cave in the ancient time. There lived by feeding the guano-bat's feces mixed with mineral. It was an amzing cave, so sad that we din have a good camera to capture all the pictures , so the pictures I posted was not really looked like the actual scene

Do you see the Abraham Lincoln in the picture?

This is known as the Garden of Eden

Lang Cave

In the late evening after our visit of both caves, the rain poured down. We didn't get the chance to the bats flying out the caves due to the bad weather, so we had to walked in the heavy rain back to the headquarter. We got totally drenched after an hour walk although we bought along the umbrellas.
At night, our guide Khairul brought us to the opposite Royal Mulu Resort to sing karaoke upon request by us. The sampan was so scary as it seemed it will turn over easily, so we had to walk so carefully and sit in good balance,haha...
The next day, we went to the Penan settlement before headed to the Wind Cave and Clearwater Cave.

The wind cave was really windy, while the clearwater cave is one of the longest underwater tunnel in Asia. We had our picnic lunch after climbing 200 steps to the Clearwater Cave.

We dipped ourselves in the ice-cooled water after the lunch. It was really chilling and I experienced 1st time how difficult it was to swim against the tide!

In the evening, we climbed up one of the small hill opposite our hostel
The next day before we left for Miri in the afternoon, we went kayaking, some of friends even went fishing under the hot sun!We wished to come back here again next year to climb the pinnacle, a nice view to behold =)

Miri

We didn't have much time to spend in Miri, so we just visited the place with the symbol of Miri-the Seahorse and tour around in the car.