Gunung Mulu, a UNESCO World Heritage site of outstanding Nature Beauty, has everything to offer for both leisure and adventurous visitors. It has the world's most extensive cave system, jungle trekking, river rapids and fascinating people, including Sarawak's last nomadic tribe, the Penans.

Its limestones mountain range is honeycombed with underground caverns and rivers giving rise to one of the world's most extensive cave system. This includes: the world's largest natural chamber, the Sarawak Chamber; the world's largest cave passage, Deer Cave, capable of holding London's St. Paul's Cathedral; and the Clearwater Cave System at 215 km as of 2015, the eight longest cave in the world.

At dusk, on a fine day, visitors are thrilled as they watch a black river exodus of two million bats pouring out of the Deer Cave on their nightly forage for insects.

Above ground, the park is just as fascinating. Its 15 different types of forest contain a wealth of wildlife and thousands of species of ferns, fungi, mosses and flowering plants. There are 170 species of wild orchids and10 species of the carnivorous pitcher plants with species still waiting to be discovered.

The best was to experience this amazing nature and variety of life is from jungle and mountain treks that require guides and a certain level of fitness, especially the Pinnacles on Gunung Api, with its razor sharp limestone peaks soaring above the surrounding jungle.

 

Locality of Mulu National Park : Miri Division, Sarawak

Area of National Park : 85,651 ha

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