Mulu - Deer and Langs Caves

During the walk to the caves we saw our first insects and lots of trees. Rain forest is impressive. I have never seen so much vegetation in one place.
PS: as I am not an expert in bugs nor plants, I will show you my pictures but won't be able to tell you what they are. I hope you will understand.

The wooden path through the rain forest (the ground is usually soaked wet as it rains everyday, therefore it's easier to walk on the path).

First trees and rain forest impression... Beautiful, amazing, breath taking!

Bugs:

Frustration of the day: no macro lens to shoot decent photos of insects. Where is Wolfram with all the lenses when I need him?

Entrance of the Langs Cave:

Langs cave is the smallest of the 4 caves in Mulu park. Now when you see the size of it, you wonder how big are the others?
What is there to see? the usual for a cave: stalactites, stalagmites, helictites, shawls and rimstone pools... This cave was not impressive by its content as I've seen more beautiful one (not to mention in Lebanon), but by its size and how far in we could walk.
I couldn't take much photos in the caves as it was too dark but here are my best shots.

Once done with the Langs cave we walked the 150m to the Deer cave, which is the biggest cave in Mulu (and used to be the biggest in the world but they found one in Vietnam. Now it's the 2nd biggest or the biggest you can visit).

Given bats still live there was not much light inside, which means no photos for me.

And please keep quiet... bats are asleep..

PS: This visit to the caves also confirmed that the flashlight application on cell phones is not strong enough to help you in a real cave. Next time, we should bring a real flashlight with us to allow us to see all the details on the walls and roof :)

Normally after visiting the cave, you wait at the entrance for the Bat exodus. At the end of the day, vats wake up and exit the caves for food. Given how many they are, it creates a cloud of bats. Unfortunately for us, it started to rain. Bats are like humans, they stay inside when it rains.

No Bat exodus for us, but 3.6km walk back under the rain. Once more we ended up soaked wet. It's becoming a habit :(