Caving at Dark Cave @ Batu Cave

Things to learn today :
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1. Dark caves / Caving
2. Eco-tourism
3. Dark , how dark? cannot see your 5 fingers
4. Homo sapiens
5. Primate
6. Anjhing or kuching
7. Buaya Darat
8. Ular
9. Chaching
10. White snake
11. White spider
12. Bats & Bats crap !
13. Kat Chat or Siew Kiong or
14. Stalactite
15. Stalagmites
16. Rimstone
17. Cave Pearls

Today we will learn about Dark Cave or Gua Gelap, which is located besides Batu Caves, 12 KM from Kuala Lumpur city centre.

Ranger question :" Why is this place called Dark Cave?"
Johntim :" Sir !! because this place is dark sir !!"
Ranger answer : " the more important is that because this is a
cave ! "
Johntim bang head on the cave wall....

What a wonderful way to melt the ice and relax ourself before we begin a trip 2 km into the throat or dubur of Dark Cave, depends how you look at it .

There were 12 person of us, Johntim's office people plus our house people. Gathered at Batu Caves at 2:00 pm and
bada bing... bada bam ...bada booom !!
raining heavily and I began to curse..... wtf raining before the trip !! I did not know that the rain has actually saved my life, why? how? read on and you will know.... muah ha hah a...

Time was about 2:15 when we were doing the climbing of the 272 steps of stair case toward the top of batu caves,
the first 100 steps was go go go go go !! like counter strike.
5 minutes later and from staircase 100 and onwards. ..... it was
go....
huhhh...
huhhh...
huhhh...
go .....
huh....
huh.... maciam sudah mahu mati itu maciam ...

It was raining really hard and we were all wet already before we could come to the entrance of the Dark Cave, the entrance is normally looked and no admitance to public. By the time we reached the Dark Cave entrance we were really panting so hard and some got their legs shaking and twisting and goyanging..... alamak...

And from there, we tested our fire power ( of torch light ) and have some drinks before we go into the cave with :

1. Jaya ( ranger team pioneer )
2. Suja ( a nice 1/2 Malaysian and 1/2 sweden ) Amir Yussoff anyone?
3. Mark ( handsome like Keanu Reeves, also 1/2 malaysian )

And the question was : " Why is this place called dark cave?".......
from there the journey began

( IE illegal operation again! Thanks Mr. Gates !! )

And then Suja lead us into the cave and he guided us and explained
the story, history and the formations of the limestone cave....
3 hours with these 3 person is like a 1 year course in some places
if you know what i mean.

So Suja gave us a lot of informations and knowledge while we proceed and
walk into the deeper part of the cave. I had no idea what was waiting for
me infront, not a chance in a life time :)

There was a point where we stopped and all of us swith off the torch light
and everything. Wow ! This is what I call Absolute Dark !!

It was so dark that it is even darker then when you close your eyes.... imagine.
You put your finger infront of your eyes and you can't see a thing, you can't
feel a thing.

Suja then said that in this kind of absolutely dark environment, the creatures
like bats, ants, bugs, snakes and everything here uses their sense of
hearing ( radar system ), tongue ( snakes ) , vibrations ( ants & bugs )
to detect what is infront of them and what is around them.

Suja then said, for a bunch of people like us to come in here , it is like
Godzilla coming to KL city and giving Boom ! boom ! boom !! everyday
and killing a lot of our people and destroying a lot of building.....
he then add on :" this is not precisely what eco-tourism about ..."
I agreed with him :)

After that while we proceed another 100 metre or so, we noticed a
white coloured snake, yeah it was a long snake, about 2 meters
to 2.5 meters, probably was enjoying his/ her hi tea when we came
it. The snake looked quite unhappy cause I think we have disturbed
the hi tea.... oppps ! sorry mate !!!

Suja and then said, no worry, cause Suja meet this snake 5 or 6 years
back and it's ok. We then just passed by the snake and left it to continue
it's hi tea.

We then came to a chamber and from there, you would not believe what
kind of cave ( i mean mini cave, nope I mean micro cave ) that we have
to squize ourselve through... you look at the size of the hole ( i mean micro
cave ) and you will not believe that I could pass through.

The rest of the story? Read on Cave 2 :)
11:44 am
13 Dec 2004