The Cave Was Hot
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Nick Tay
The Labour day weekend just passed, and I spent it going caving. I was really looking forward to this trip, and the day was not dissapointing. We drove down to Gopeng on Sunday, and spent the night a Adeline’s Guest House (Address bellow). Woke up next morning, had breakfast and by 7:30 we were on our way to the cave, all of us, about 30 people, got on the back of a 2 ton lorry, and were driven through kampung roads, having to duck the incoming leaves and branches. I was glad I wore my helmet as it saved me more than 2 times from branches.
We reached, took a group picture, and we were off into the caves. It was dark, dusty and very hot. I always thought caves were suppose to be cooling, I guess not in Malaysia. When I told my friend I was going caving, her first responce was “Don’t get stuck!”, I see what she meant now. Some of the turnings were narrow, and I bumped my head a few times (helmet handy), but I think since we were all amatures, the guide took us on the easy paths. There were some caverns that were too hard for our skill sets, and we avoided those. The brought us into a great hall in the cave and asked us to turn off all our lights. Pitch Darkness. Somebody kept shouting “Who let the dogs out”, and after 2 minutes the guide said ,”If your lucky you can hear the wind blow, but I guess not today.” Haha. I guess it would have helped if he kept quiet eh?
Up and down a few steep climbs, using a rope at one point, and after about 1 1/2 hours we were out the cave. We entered the cave at ground level, but came up at the top of the mountian, requiring us to make a decent back to the road where the lorry was. It didn’t seem that we climbed that high while in the cave, but once we got out of the cave, boy, it looked different. The climb down the hill was very sliperry, and I fell on my but twice, first time quite gently, the second very hard.
The rest of the day was spent jungle tracking and then a waterfall. No pictures or videos of that, sorry. The water at the waterfall splashing everywhere and didn’t wanna get my camera wet. Somebody had a waterproof one, and once I get them, I’ll post those. Here is a video of our adventure. All pictures available :- here.
Address for Rumah Rehat Adeline :-
Lot 13302, Mukim Teja,
31600 Gopeng, Perak.
H/P : 0190556 1113
Fax : 05-313 9097
