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| DISCOVER
MALAYSIA |
| Gunung
Mulu National
Park
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This
fascinating parks lush jungle terrain is home to one of the worlds
longest and most majestic cave networks (some 130 miles of passages
surveyed to date). Its outstanding features of its breathtaking environment
(reached by longboat and walkway from Miri) are Wind Cave with its
amazing stalagmites and stalactites, the passages of Clearwater Cave,
Deer Cave claimed to be the worlds largest cave passage, and Langs
Cave, from which the daily exodus at sunset of thousands of bats is
a never-to-be-forgotten sight.
The park contains 8 different types of forest with 4000 species of
fungi, 1500 species of flowering plants. 1700 species of moses &
liverworts and estimated 3500 species of plants.
Mulu's wildlife is equally impressive and includes 75 species of mammals,
262 species of birds (including the eight species of hornbill found
in Sarawak), 74 species of frogs, 47 species of fish, 281 species
of butterflies, 52 species of reptiles, 458 species of ants and 20000
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The
Mulu Canopy Skywalk, at 480 metres long is the longest tree-based
walkway in the world. |
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Deer
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Wind
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| Entrance
of Wind Cave |
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Pitcher
Plant |
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Kayaking
at Melinau River |
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Limestone
Pinnacles |
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Clearwater
cave |
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Jungle
Plankwalk |
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| "Eden
Shower" at Deer cave |
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Overlooking
Royal Mulu Resort |
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