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

Who is the real Victim???

Logging companies have dismantled one Penan road blockade and claim to be mobilizing to break another. Riot police are searching for the activists.

"Please support us and stay strongly behind us. Ask the police not to use force against us on our land. We, the Penan communities, will keep up the struggle for our forest forever."

-Headmen of the Penan communites in the 4th and 5th Division of Sarawak, Malaysia, July 2006, requesting public support for their non-violent defense of their last remaining forest reserves.

In February 2004, the Penan of Long Benali, Sarawak erected a road blockade to mark their territory boundary and prevent logging incursions and road expansion by Samling Plywood (Baramas) Sdn. Bhd. According to community reports sent to the Bruno Manser Foundation of Switzerland (BMF), Malaysian government officers announced that the blockade would be dismantled in July, 2006. As of August, 2006, however, the blockade has been left in peace, perhaps due to thousands of activist emails sent to Malaysian authorities in recent weeks.

According to BMF, the announcement further discredits the Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC), a government initiative which has certified Samling for "sustainable" logging in the area. The certification of Samling has led to many international protests due to MTCC’s blatant disregard for twenty years of continuous local protests, petitions by hundreds of Penan elders, and a pending court case for native customary land rights.

Separately, workers of Interhill Logging Sdn. Bhd., dismantled a Penan road blockade near Ba Abang, Sarawak in July, 2006. The Federal Reserve Unit, a police unit specializing in quelling riots and dispersing “unlawful assemblies", was searching the area for those who had confiscated two company chainsaws and erected the blockade in early June.


Along Sega, a nomadic Penan chief, looks out for logging trucks in the Sungai Nyakit area of the Limbang District, Sarawak, Malaysia. Sega has been blockading a logging road in order to stop the destruction of his rainforest home. 












Early morning fog drapes the forest in the Baram District of Sarawak, Malaysia. Malaysia has lost almost all of it's primary forest outside of national parks due to logging. 
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