Its Me...

Its Me...
I laugh, I love, I hope, I try I hurt, I need, I fear, I cry. And I know you do the same things too, So we're really not that different, me and you.

Largest Cave in the WORLD is in Malaysia...WOW!!!!

Sarawak Chamber (Advanced)

  World Heritage 
  Guide

  RM500 for 1 - 5 persons extra person RM100,
  maximum of 8.

(Advanced – requires Park Manager approval) 
Sarawak Chamber is a tour for visitors that

  • Can demonstrate current membership of an internationally recognized speleological society or caving group, or
  • Can provide details of* previous caving experience or
  • have completed one of the easier tours at Mulu first.


Sarawak Chamber is a challenging trek even for fit and experienced cavers. Taking one very full day, beginning at 6.30 am at the Park HQ office you will follow the Summit Trail for about 3 hours. Access to the chamber is via Gua Nasib Bagus (Good Luck Cave) taking about 3 hours along a 800 metre river channel with sheer rock faces rising to about 50 metres on either side. 

After a 200 metre traverse and a steep boulder slope you come face to face with the inky blackness of earth’s largest chamber. Enjoy a short rest at the mouth of the chamber, before the return trip.

You will need to have good hiking boots, a day pack, raincoat, lunch, water, personal first aid kit and a back up torch. You will be provided with a caving helmet, head lamp and ropes as required.


If the water levels are too high, the tour must be cancelled and the group returns to Park headquarters.


CANCELLATION BY THE PARK STAFF

  • If the trek is cancelled before leaving the Park office then there will be a full refund.
  • Once you have left the Park Office there will be no refund whatever the reason for the tour not going all the way to Sarawak Chamber eg, fitness levels, water levels or sickness.
  • If during the trek to the cave entrance the guide believes that water levels will be too high in Sarawak Chamber but still suitable at Drunken Forest then the tour will be changed at no extra charge.

Wednesday, May 6, 2009

Court upholds right to blockade

Court upholds right to blockade

December 9th, 2008

Good news from Nicholas Mujah, leader of SADIA (Sarawak Dayak Iban Association) in Kuching, on 9 December, 2008!

 

Kuching High Court judge David Wong delivered a pre-Christmas gift to Iban villages Sungai Raya, Temiang, Keniong, and Tibun Simunjan, near Kota Samaran,Sarawak.

 

In his Chamber Judge Wong informed native rights attorney for the villages, Dominique Ng, and the lawyer for Rejang Heigh sdn bhd, a sister company of logging and oil palm conglomerate Rimbunan Hijau, that he will reject a request for an injunction against Native blockades to stop work on Native customary rights land by plantation company.

 

The Iban villagers are determined to fight to defend their ancestral land, even at risk of arrest, “if they have to sleep days in the police lock up”. (Indeed, four leaders were arrested on 24 October 2008).

 

Lawyer Dominique Ng explained to community members, supporters, and the press that the judge had thrown out the company's application for injunction against the Iban natives from Simunjan.  The judge had also told the lawyers that the Iban natives had shown legal proof of native customary rights over land.  Judge Wong’s written decision will be delivered after 9 January next year.

 

On hearing this news from Dominique Ng, the waiting Ibans shouted in happiness, and sang Christmas songs, led by village head Ajen anak Wen.
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