Day 5- The world's largest bat population!

Early in the morning, we had breakfast, pack our bags, and ready to walk back with our jelly legs (from the pinnacles climb!) to catch the long boat from Kuala Berar back to Gunung Mulu National Park headquarters - good bye Camp 5!

|After we check into our accommodation, we have a few hours rest & lunch at Mulu Cafe before heading to the Deer Cave & Lang Cave.We meet up with our guide John at 2:30pm, about 3.8KM to see the Deer Cave &Lang Cave. Along the way, we were quite lucky to see few insects. We saw green lizard, caterpillar, lantern bugs, pygmy squirrel ("size like a finger thumb!") climbing up the trees.

Caterpillar

Green lizard

Lantern bugs hanging on the tree.From a far distance look like a tiny leaf

The first cave we visited is the Deer Cave, it was the largest in the world but apparently they have found one in Vietnam slightly bigger. But it is still the biggest cave bats population in the world! It's huge and could have been bigger if not because of the ceiling collapse at the back of the cave. As we walk in, the smell of the ammonia and mounds of guano is incredible. The guide John, he shows us a glow in- the- dark millipede - we were very impressed. There is water in the cave too and we saw small fishes. There is a shadow Abraham Lincoln's profile, you can see from the inside of the cave toward the entrance. Who name it? Not too sure.... might be American travelers who named it!

Entrance of the Deer Cave. 

Shadow of Abraham Lincoln profile

Deer Cave

Lang Cave is the smallest of the four major caves that are open to tourists. It features some of the most impressive rock forms. Countless jagged stalactites are hanging from ceiling and also stalactites rising from the ground.

Entrance of Lang Cave

After seeing both caves, we went the bat observatory building to witness the bats coming out from the Deer Cave entrance. We waited for about 45 minutes and the dark clouds was coming! But we were lucky that the bats came out from the cave just before the rain started. A few random swarms of black specks came out from the cave, then the bats start to form swirling big donuts to confuse the predators. Once the bat captain of the swarms think it's safe, they then will start to fly like a swarm of bees into the jungle for food.

View of the Deer Cave from the bat observatory building

Swarms of bats

Because of the rain is coming, we quickly walk back to park headquarters and have dinner together...