“….Robin, To the BatCave!!”

Ever went caving before? Well, I did. In fact, it was just last Sunday I went for a caving trip to Dark Cave, situated at Batu Caves just below the Temple Cave.
Together with NSA(my fellow group of explorers), we were led by the guides from MNS (Malaysian Nautre Society) into the cave. We gathered up at 9am in front of Batu Caves..not wanting to miss out anyone behind. It was an experience not to be missed out after all.
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"Gadgets!…Check!"

And of cause..there was a warm-up session before it actually begins - "The 272 Steps Rock Stairs". I started counting the steps "1,2,3…..10…..*wheezing…*wheezing…..11..10..4..29…!@#$%#$%!@#"

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"I’m the one behind the camera…steady hands eh!"

Just before we reach the end of the stairs, we made a left turn to the route towards the Dark Cave. There was a reason it’s named Dark Cave…Yea, simply because it’s DARK.

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"There were few groups of cavers on that day, inclusive of little Caver-lets as well"

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"That’s Colin from MNS (Malaysian Nautre Society) in full gear…solid pro-caver and that’s me not solid pro-caver "

We entered the cave with a brief introductory given by our guide, Colin. The cave are devided and named into different Chambers: Chamber A, B, C and D. O..yea, and if you’re wondering what are some of them looking at on the ground(in the picture), they’re looking at a whole vilage of little roaches. so…BEWARE ROACH HATERS!!

We went further in from A to B
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"no kidding..they don’t name it Dark Cave for nothing"

As we eplore the cave, we were fed with mouth-watering roaches detailed facts of the caves - "the formation of many-aged-old stalactite, stalacmite, structure formation,etcs", about the natural life-forms within the cave - "bats, cave-raiser(white snake), cave centipede" yea..we actually met them and even greeted "Hi!"

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"I can’t upload anymore pictures. It seems that friendster only limit me to upload 50 pictures a month. So i guess there is a part 2 to my Caving Post after all. Next week…I promise"

..to be continue

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