| By June Ong in Mulu
Tourists and tour guides of Freme Travel at Royal Mulu Resort.
Photo: June Ong
Thirty-eight passengers,
including two tour guides from Freme Travel, went on a three
days/ two nights trip to Mulu recently. They went on a chartered
flight that flew directly to and from Mulu in the neighbouring
Malaysian state of Sarawak. The flight took only took about 35
minutes.
In the Dornier aircraft, the
tourists had a breathtaking bird’s eye view of Mulu’s
attractions such as the dramatic towering Pinnacles and
jungle-shrouded waterways.
At Mulu airport, two vans were
ready to transfer the visitors to the Royal Mulu Resort. After
lunch, local tour guides escorted the passengers to two of
Mulu’s magnificent caves.
The 45 minutes to one hour
journey to the two caves was made on foot through the jungle
from the headquarters of Mulu National Park. After visiting the
two beautiful “show” caves, the tourists waited at an open
space for around three million bats to fly out in search of food
just as the sun began to set.
The next day, the trip covered
the Clearwater and Wind caves, the other two of Mulu’s world
renowned show caves. The caves were reached by taking a longboat
ride up the Melinau river.
On the way to the caves, a
variety of handicrafts made by Penan, a semi-nomadic tribe were
for sale.
From Wind Cave, the visitors
proceeded to Clearwater Cave, Asia’s longest cave. At the
cave, clear water tempted the tourists to a take a dip in the
refreshing water surrounded by limestone.
After lunch at the Clearwater
Rest House, the visitors had ample time to either swim, rest or
do some outdoor activity.
The next day was another day of
leisure until time for departure back to Brunei.
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