At the entrance

Well the scary lady that we stayed with only got more scary and irritating today but I cannot be bothered to list all the reasons to why today as it would take too long and make for a huge blog entry, but I’m sure I’ll include some of the highlights.

Dreading the 8.2 km walk

We woke up prepared to go on our trip this morning to Niah Caves about a 1 ½ drive away. They found 40,000-year-old human remains and artefacts here that are the oldest found in SE Asia, so quite impressive! We managed to eventually book our tour through ‘scary lady’ and we were really looking forward to going although it would be a lot of trekking, 8.2km to be precise and as my knee isn’t completely healed I was a little worried. Once we got outside we were expecting to see a mini bus to take us considering it was a tour, but no a miserable taxi driver was waiting outside to greet us with a disgusted look on his face and said, ‘You’re late’ and so the drive continued in silence... Thus the tour we had booked was in fact just a taxi ride and with no tour. Anyway, we were determined to not let it dampen our day so found our own way to the caves once we arrived and the driver sat and waited for us in his car.

Us about half way to the caves

Along the side of The Great Cave

The beautiful walkway to the caves

Vines hanging down from the trees

Inside The Great Cave

Me, sweaty and exhausted, yet not even half way!

A pretty bird

An pretty plant

Just inside the entrance of a cave

The entrance to one of the caves

Climbing up a shed load of steps

A bright red centipede hiding

A very spiky plant

Lighting up the way with our head-torches

Finding some light

About to go into pitch black

Inside a cave

Looks like the cave was being held up by just 1 stick!

Me 'wowed' by the tree

Amazing roots from a tree

It was a long trek but most of it was shaded and on a slabbed platform outside the caves but inside it was quite dark and slippy as the ground was just layers upon layers of bird and bat poo. However, we did have a great yet tiring day; as it was so humid, so on the way back after getting some much-needed lunch I just passed out in the back of the car. Chris also was exhausted so decided to find himself a quick beer when we got back and I walked to our room to chill for a while. I unfortunately left the key with him, so had to ring the doorbell to get inside; something ‘scary lady’ was not happy at all with and glared at me in such a way, I’m actually surprised she didn’t punch me before telling me off as if I was 6 years old! By this time I had had enough so made a vow with Chris and Jess that we would be checking out first thing in the morning!

written by  chrischarly on May 24, 2011 from Niah, Malaysia
from the travel blog: Chris and Charly's Passage through SE Asia
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Wow.. Normally i love caves and all.. It looks awesome.. Really impressed me a lot..

written by  505 b 2 on May 27, 2011

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Yeah we had a great time as well thanks, although it was hard work as we don't consider ourselves the fittest people in the world! 505 b 2... What's your real name??

written by  chrischarly on May 27, 2011

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