Day 106 to Mulu

A new record I think for us today, 4 airports in less than 12 hours. At 4:30am when we arrived at Kuching airport we were given a breakfast voucher and a 3 hour delayed departure. On our way to Miri airport what we thought was our only stop was a short stop at another airport where all the passengers changed except us and another girl. In Miri we had a few hours before the half hour flight to Mulu. There are no roads to Mulu national park the only way is by plane or boat up a long river. While coming in to land we took photos of a thunder/rain cloud then got pretty wet in the 50metre dash from the plane to the building.
5 minutes in a truck later and we were at the park checking in for 4 nights & booking all our guided walks.
Knowing the rain effects whether 3 million bats come streaming out of Deer cave each evening or not, we thought it best to try today since it cleared up a bit. An easy 45 min plank walk got us there in time to relax then see 3 Hornbills fly over before the bats started coming out. They came out in flocks of a few hundred at a time, some of the unlucky ones got picked off by bat-hawks. Cool to see them come out of the massive cave twisting & turning as a group.
The park hostel was a 20 bed room but by some stroke of luck the only two beds available were in a room of 3 beds not out in the main room, score!
Also added a couple of bug picks one of darth vader the moth and the other of your typical garden snail but 3 times bigger than the biggest one you can remember seeing.