Malaysian Bat Cave Remains Safe For Now
Come along on a visit to Gua Pinang, a bat cave in the Langkawi region of Malaysia, which sits in the vicinity of a massive quarry.
Malaysia Caving News
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Gunung Mulu National Park’s Fantastical Features
Alan Rogers shares his experiences exploring the caves of what is now Borneo’s Gunung Mulu National Park.
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Flooding Closes Malaysia’s Wind and Fairy Caves
Malaysia’s Wind Cave and Fairy Cave Nature Reserves have been closed to the public following heavy rains that overflowed the Sungai Sarawak Kanan river.
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Spectacular Malaysian Cave in Danger of Being Quarried
Gua Kanthan in Perak, Malaysia, is a spectacular cave, nicknamed Cathedral Cave because of its size. It has a small river flowing through and is home to a variety of …
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Croatian Cave Expedition Visits Merapoh, Malaysia
This past September, nine cavers from Croatia (from SOŽ – Speleološki odsjek HPD Željezničar and SOV – Speleološki odsjek PDS Velebit), plus myself (based in Kuala Lumpur) joined up with …
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Nearby Construction Threatens Malaysia’s Batu Caves
Environmentalists believe that a construction project to build two high-rise buildings near Malaysia’s Batu Caves will have a negative effect on the stability of the cave. The concern is that …
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Students Break Record for Malaysia’s Largest Caving Expedition
A record-breaking caving expedition was recently undertaken in Malaysia’s Fairy Cave. The attempt to get into the Malaysian Book of Records for the ‘Largest Participation in Caving Expedition’ saw a …
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Mulu Caves 2012 Expedition to Gunung Mulu National Park
From April 3rd to 30th members of the 17th Anglo-Sarawak expedition, entitled Mulu Caves 2012, visited Malaysia‘s Gunung Mulu National Park. During the month-long expedition, which based itself at the …
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Malaysia’s Niah Caves Swiftlet Population Declining
In the 1930’s around 1.7 million black-nest swiftlets called the caves of Malaysia’s Niah National Park home. Now only around 100,000 remain. The decrease is being attributed to harvesting the …
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Malaysian Cave Could be 1,500 Million Years Old
New findings by a Chinese geologist suggests that Malaysia’s popular Gua Tempurung show cave is actually much older than previously thought. Although earlier studies had shown that the cave was …
