1. Gua Niah,Miri,Sarawak.
- Divided into two sections - The Great Cave and The Painted Cave - both were home to the pre-historic humans and there is nothing better than threading the caverns and chambers here as you see what it was like to live in a subterranean.
2. Wind Cave,Gunung Mulu National Park,Sarawak.
- Wind Cave Nature Reserve (also known as Lubang Angin) provides visitors with an authentic,but relatively safe,caving experience in pitch black , bat-infested tunnels. You can also see some of the 6.16 hectares of forest and rivers in the protected reserve surrounding the cave.
3. Dark Cave,Batu Caves,Selangor.
- Batu Caves not only houses one of the most famous Hindu Temples in the world - The Sri Subramaniam Temple - but it also houses the Dark cave - one of the main caves at the Batu Caves hill.It is home to an ancient animal community of 100 million years old,including the rarest spider in the world,The Trapdoor Spider (Liphistius Batuensis).Dark cave has it's own special features of magnificent cave formation - stalactite,staglagmite,flowstone,cave pearls and cave curtains.
4. Perak Cave,Ipoh,Perak.
- Perak Tong Cave Temple - The Perak Tong - is located just north of Ipoh and is one of the oldest temples and famous for the murals.The walls of the cavern are decorated with colourful murals despiciting characters and events from Chinese mythology and Buddhist scriptures. Chinese calligraphy also adorns the walls some of which was painted by the afore - mentioned Chong Yin Chat.
5. Gua Payong,Kampung Kalai,Kelantan.
- The cave situated inside Gunung Reng, a limestone hill.The cave also has the unique structure of stalactites and stalagmites.The fact is,certain rock formations ,granite/ limestone mountain are the same as found in Gua Niah. Also expect to encounter bats and different species of insects.
By,Dharshini.
Gua Niah
Wind Cave
Dark Cave
Gua Payong
Perak Cave
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