Day 108 Mulu Deer & Lang cave

Up early this morning for our canopy walk tour at 7am. This canopy walk is the longest in the world at 480metres & varying in height from 20-35 metres above the forest floor. It was high and taking the first few steps out on to the wooden planks was a little scary! Tim was fine with it though.
We saw a pygmy squirrel, some birds flying above the canopy catching flies and some others in the trees. Nothing that hung around long enough to get photos of unfortunately but the walkway was a great way to get a different perspective of the forest. On the walk to the start of the canopy walkway we saw a hammerhead worm and a type of bamboo which is filled with ants and if you touch the branch the ants make a rattle sound to warn you. We returned to camp and relaxed before our next cave tour at 2pm to Deer & Lang cave. We saw a green tree lizard which was super cool & a few birds around park HQ.
Our guide for the caves was amazing she was so interested in everything and pointed out lots of insects seeing/finding them in an instant. Our first cave stop was Lang cave which was the smallest of the show caves at only a few hundred metres long, cool formations with limestone & the odd bat hanging from the ceiling.
Next to Lang cave was Deer cave, This one is enormous, The biggest in the world! It was quite smelly in parts due to tonnes of bat excrement all over the floor, red in colour giving a Mars landscape effect. The 3 million bats hung from the ceiling making it black and their chatter could be heard. We saw a mangrove snake black with yellow stripes which the guide said must have followed something in, since they aren't usually found in there. It was lashing rain outside which created two 'showers' made of stone from the ceiling they were awesome & must have taken so long to form. We went straight back to camp HQ once the tour finished since the bats wouldn't be coming out to feed with the heavy rain.