Adventure Caving

Today you will explore one of Borneo’s many caves! Meet at the hotel lobby and depart from Kuching city to Lobang Batu (~1.5 hr. drive) with briefing at the village community center). Here you will be provided with the necessary caving gear as well, such as helmet and basic refreshment. After the equipment and safety briefings are completed, we trek 45 minutes through some of the area’s prettiest farmland to the cave entrance. Then we go deep into the cave. Ceilings in this cave are up to 35 metres high and there are enormous calcite structures to admire as well as a range of cave dwellers. The route takes us 1 km inside the mountain, passing through many chambers, before we retrace our steps. A packed lunch will be provided. 500 meters round the mountain we enter a second cave through a river. Whilst swimming is not required a dryer route is available for the less intrepid. Less than 200 meters into this cave you will find a small but beautiful chamber. From here we return to the entrance. Having changed in the village community center, we will depart and return to your city hotel.

0730: Pick up
0930: Briefings on Caving gear equipment and safety
1000: Depart for the caves. It’s a 30 minutes Trek to the foot of the mountain, and then a 15 minute trek to the entrance of the cave.
1130: Into Cave 1
1330: Out of cave 1 and a 15-minute walk to cave 2
1430: Into cave 2
1530: Trek and transfer back to city hotel