FASTLANE Cave - Show cave tour at Gunung Mulu National Park

A short boat ride up the Melinau, a 10-20 minute walk through the rainforest and a climb up the steps to the cave entrance brings you to the start of a 1,5km underground adventure.
The tour size is limited to 6 people.
The tour begins by torch light encouraging you to ‘discover’ for yourself. Cave fauna is easily seen at the beginning of this trip: twinkling spider eyes stare back at you, blue Racer snakes sit waiting to catch a bat flying by, white crabs feed blindly in the shallow pools of water and the long antennae of cave crickets pick up your movements as you pass by.
As the cave becomes larger some of the best formations in Mulu are presented to you via stunning lighting. The wide plank walk path allows you to look around you and thoroughly enjoy this amazing experience.
This cave is highly regarded by scientists as it contains huge volumes of pre-historic sediments, including a volcanic ash layer.
Cancellation policy – once you have left the Park Office there will be no refund for the tour not going all the way due to fitness level, water levels, sickness or any other reason. A 50% cancellation fee applies to any tour cancelled by you within 24 hours of the schedule departure time.
Bring your own torchlight. The cave is a combination of show cave and wild, unlit cave

MYR 65.00
*per person includes guide and boat fee.
DURATION: 2 and a half hours
START TIME: 14:00 DAILY

Considering Mulu’s spectacular scenery and its biological significance, it was not surprising that Mulu was successfully listed as a World Heritage site in November 2000. To qualify for world heritage status a property must meet one of the four following criteria:

Be an outstanding example of the world’ geological history (Caves and cave deposits)
Be and outstanding representative example of on-going evolutionary processes (current research programmes)
Be of exceptional beauty!
Contain significant natural habitat for in-situ conservation of biological diversity and the protection of threatened species (wide range of cave and forest habitats).

MULU MEETS ALL FOUR CRITERIA!
World Heritage status has created renewed interest in the park and a genuine desire of the government and the people of Malaysia to ensure it is adequately protected. Accordingly, the Sarawak Government has committed to developing world leading conservation practices and high quality nature-based tourism activities at Mulu and has committed considerable resources to ensure its goals are achieved.

GEO-DIVERSITY
The limestone buttresses of Gunung Api, Gunung Benerat and Gunung Buda hug the steep contours of Gunung (Mt) Mulu – a sandstone matrix mountain that absorbs millions of litres of tropical rainfall to discharge it into/under the limestone lenses.

Combined with the steep relief (Mulu Summit is 2376m above sea level) and superabundance of rain, the quality Melinau limestone is shaped into a subterranean world of abnormally huge chambers, massive underground rivers and amazingly shaped speleothems, unique to tropical areas only.

Sand was the result of a land plate dipping underneath another plate. The sheer pressure of these two grinding land plates that lasted for 20 million years, resulted in an accumulated layer of 5 km thick under the sea. On top of it a 1,5 km band of limestone formed. Both formations were raised 5 million years ago to form the present landscape of Mulu.

The abundant rainwater as well as ground waters combined forces to penetrate the limestone and to start a chemical process of dissolving the rock to form one of the longest cave systems in the world as well as the biggest enclosed space in the world.

BIODIVERSITY
The island of Borneo is considered as one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots and with at least half of Borneo’s known plant, animal and fungi species found in Mulu, the vast expanse of spectacular equatorial rainforest presents visitors to Gunung Mulu World Heritage Area with an outstanding diversity of flora and fauna.

Mulu’s limestone karst and isolated mountain peaks are home to numerous rare and endemic plants and animals. Notable examples of plants include the one-leaf plant Monophyllaea pendula, which can be seen clinging to the rock face at the entrance to Clearwater Cave, Salacca rupicola, an endemic palm that grows on the cliff outside Deer Cave and the pitcher plant, Nepenthes muluensis, which can be seen near the top of Gunung Mulu. The park is particularly rich in amphibians, so far not found outside the area. Frogs or toads you may be lucky enough to encounter, include the Api Dwarf Toad, found only on limestone rock in the lowlands and the Mulu Horned Frog found near the peak of Gunung Mulu.
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