Today I went somewhere very exciting and amaaazing! I went on a short 30 minute flight to Deer Cave, which was a lot faster than getting there by a 6 hour boat ride! Deer Cave is in Gunung Mulu National Park in Malaysia on the island of Borne. Apparently it's called Deer Cave because of all the deer that lick salt off the rocks in the entrance!
The cave is a whopping 174m wide, 122m high and has two extremely large entrances that create a 100m long path through the limestone mountain. Scientists even say that you could fly a jumbo jet through it (although no-one has tried it because it's too dangerous).
Now here's the wildlife part: Deer Cave has an enormous amount of bats, an estimated 5 million, that have created a gigantic mound of guano and covered the surface of the cave in guano (bat droppings). Millions of cockroaches and other bugs feed off this constant supply of food and also eat anything that fall into it. Yuck! That was my least favourite part about the trip. All the creepy crawlies freaked me out and gave me the shivers, Brrrr!
I did an activity called caving whilst I was in the cave. Caving is climbing the walls of the massive mountain of limestone. It was really fun and exhilarating!
The view was breathtaking, especially outside one of the entrances where there was a mass of luscious green rainforest spreading over thousands of metres.
It was a trip I will never forget and I will recommend it to as many people as possible!
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