Dark Cave of Batu Cave

The Dark Cave is just situated beside Batu Cave of Kuala Lumpur. It was a restricted area for the past. A few years ago it has been open to public. Before entering the cave ones must apply the permit and ask for at least a guide. If not mistaken one guide is allowed to take only ten visitors. Once you enter the cave, the thing that welcome you are the smell of the bat's shit. It is not surprising as the habitat of bats are dark places. You can see one or few bats but hundreds or thousands of bat here.

The cave is really dark so the visitors must bring a torch so that you are not lost. We can see many insects in the cave such as cockroaches. They are a bit different from what we see in our house. The cave was the place that the communist stayed before, so we can also see many Chinese words that written by them. Unfortunately I can't really understand what the words mean because they are a bit different.

The most interesting things to see in the cave sure are the stalactites and the stalagmites. They look more beautiful under the light. They are believed to form a few million years ago. We are not allowed to touch them as they will lost their shine. There is a place that very changing for the visitors because you have to crawl through a very narrow path. No other choice it is the only way.

Baling Hill

Baling Hill is a limestone hill which located just in the town of Baling. It is not very high and not difficult to climb it but there are a few part are quite dangerous. The climber must be very careful because the path is only enough for one people and both side are very steep slope and sharp rock. The difficulty is we have to jump from the rock to the path. At the bottom of the hill is actually a durian plantation and you can find the Malays selling durians there. It likes other hill full with all types of palnts. When you are going to reach the summit the palnts become less because there are many rocks. From the summit ones can view the scenery of Baling. Five of us went for the hike but only four of us reached the summit because one of the members Jungle Leong was too tired to reach the summit. According to him he is too old to do the dangerous thing. Actually he is only about sixty.

Chiang Dao, Thailand

Chiang Dao was part of our backpack trip to Thailand last year. We just stayed there for one night so can't tell you more about it.
I don't think many of you know Chiang Dao. It is actually a very small town to the east between Chiang Mai and Chiang Rai.
I think it is as small as Lunas in Kulim. We went there just because wanted to explore the Chiang Dao Cave the only tourist attraction there. What you can find in Chiang Dao is only a middle size market, two rows of shops along the main road and a small hotel.

Although we took few hours to reach there but for me it is worth it as the cave is really wonderful compare to all that I have visited in Malaysia. After visting the cave we proceeded to Tha Tong (3 hours distanct by van). Tha Thong is also a small town but I can introduced anything to you because after reaching there, we didn't have any spare time and took boat to Chiang Rai straight away.







Canopy above the Kok River

Grocery shop operate by hilltribe

Children wear nothing

small pier

souvenier sold by local

Boiling eggs(Hot spring)

Fountain(Hot spring)

A shop owner in Chiang Dao

Spider found in the cave

Wash away the unfortune

Whose hand

Buddha statue on the floor

Hot spring

notice

Our guide (speak in Thai)

Boat ride to Chiang Rai

small pier

A medical hall

dare to go in

our transport to Tha Tong

Fountain(Hot spring)

another small pier

small huts build by hilltribe

Is this ok in Malaysia

handsome man with four ladies