A trip to Mulu Cave (Mohd Zulfadli bin Khalip)

To get yourself to Mulu Cave, a flight from Miri is needed because it’s the only airport that are close to Mulu’s little airport. For your information, only a small-sized plane can land and take off from Mulu Airport, and the airport itself, did not seem to be exactly like an airport. More to a market and some markets, are even bigger than this airport. From Miri, it only take us about 20 minutes flight. But if car is the option you take to get to Mulu, most people would consider it twice since the roads are a little bit extreme.

Now, talking about getting to the cave itself. When I was on the trip to Mulu Cave, me and my family stayed at my father’s quarters house. If my father didn’t work there, we’ll be paying for the chalet provided by the organization that arranged everything for people who want to get to the cave. Either from my father’s place or the chalet, everyone will take a boat, cruising through the clear river water of the Melinau River. It’s a really nice nature view everywhere during the journey with the boat.

When we are about to enter the cave, a guider will guide us because the road to the cave is quite adventurous, tiring, lots of sweat and maybe tears for someone! Imagine that! Mulu cave is divided into sections of caves. For us back then, we’ll only travel to the Wind Cave and the Clearwater Cave. The trip that took us to these two caves demanded a lot of sweat and honestly, it’s really, really, goddamn tired. The most adventurous road between these two is the road to the Clearwater Cave. We need to walk down from a hill because the cave located lower and within it, is a river in the cave! It’s really nice. When you are on the top of the hill, and you are looking down, you might say ‘I’m a dead man if a fall from this height!’. The river was really nice, and for some Penan people, there believe in something about the river because to them, it is rare to see a river flowing inside a cave.

For the Wind Cave, it is named because the windy condition in the cave itself. It is cool, it feels like you are on a highland like Cameron Highland and Kundasang, except for the fact that you are not in an actual highland. Inside the cave, I’ve seen a lot of weird looking stalagmite. Even for some, it looks like a woman wearing a scarf! Some are shaping like the World Cup (I mean the football World Cup). The guider told us to be really silence, so that we can hear the sound of the wind (according to him and that is true). I felt the wind touches me with its cool hands. Some say, the Wind Cave at night is another story. I guess, I won’t be telling the story here. There’s a lot of story about this Mulu Cave, and it is fun to hear them.

Finally, our journey was done. We take some relaxing moments near a little natural swimming pool nearby the cave. The guider told me that the water in the pool, is from the Clearwater Cave’s river. I don’t care about that, as long as it is nice for me to swim, it is considered as okay!

Clearwater Cave, the water makes you wanna jump!

Left or right? Both are awesome!

The majestic scene in Wind Cave

Get to this cave! You’ll see what the nature offers to us. The journey was unforgettable. In the near future, I’ll come again because there are still caves that waiting for my return to Mulu.

Mother nature gave us her bless with this wonderful panorama.