Monday, January 9, 2012

PLACES TO VISIT … GUNUNG MULU NATIONAL PARK

 

Gunung Mulu National Park

GUNUNG MULU NATIONAL PARK

Gunung Mulu National Park in Borneo contains the most extensive and spectacular cave system in the world. Many of the caves are illuminated, and visitors can marvel at 600-foot indoor waterfalls.  Every evening, when more than a million bats stream from the caves like a dense black cloud, creating an awesome view.

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Gunung Mulu National Park near Miri, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that encompasses incredible caves and karst formations in a mountainous equatorial rainforest setting. The park is famous for its caves and the expeditions that have been mounted to explore them and their surrounding rainforest, most notably the Royal Geographical Society Expedition of 1977–1978, which saw over 100 scientists in the field for 15 months. This initiated a series of over 20 expeditions now drawn together as the Mulu Caves Project.

The national park is named after Mount Mulu, the second highest mountain in Sarawak.

 

The Sarawak Chamber in the Gunung Mulu National Park

The Mulu Caves

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