Mulu National Park, Sarawak - Deer Cave

We drove 455 Km from home to Miri to attend the IDMC Conference held at the Meritz Hotel. It was my initial plan to drive to Kuching from Miri after the conference with overnight stops at Bintulu and Sibu. But after considering the 825 Km distance, uninteresting landscape coupled with a lack of attractive sites to explore in the towns along the route, we decided to consider exploring Mulu National Park instead. 

After talking to the travel agent, Brighton Travel & Tour introduced by the Hotel, we booked the 3D2N tour and the return plane ticket, Miri-Mulu there and then.

In Mulu National Park, we visited four caves, the one most interesting and memorable would be the Deer Cave. Deer Cave is said to have the largest cave passage in the world.

Deer Cave Opening.

Massive cave passage.

Water seeps through the soil above the cave and finally falls from

cave ceiling creating a sensation of "raining" inside the cave!

The guide was quick to draw our attention to the 
cave mouth which depicts the silhouette of  the 
image of "Abraham Lincoln"

Cave-in that happened long long time ago. 
Had the cave-in not happened, the cave 
passage would have been extended 
to much longer route!

The single most awesome experience would be sitting at the viewing platform to watch the bats flying out from the cave opening in the evening in groups of thousands and thousands. It was estimated that there are 2-3 million bats living in the cave and they consume around 15 tons of flying insects every night!