Malaysia Borneo National Parks, Niah
Malaysia
Borneo National Parks, Niah
尼亚国家公园, 砂拉越州属, 马来西亚婆罗洲
Known for the site where a
40,000 year old human remains were discovered, Niah National Park offers jungle
walk, Iban longhouse and cave experiences.
Niah National Park provides
some interesting and impressive sights. The area was a major centre of human
settlement as early as 40,000 years ago, and features one of the world’s
largest cave entrances, Palaeolithic and Neolithic burial sites and iron-age
cave paintings.
The nearby Painted Cave
houses wall-paintings depicting the boat journey of the dead into the
afterlife, along with remnants of “death-ships” on the cave floor – boat-shaped
coffins (its contents have been transferred to the Sarawak Museum).
Visitors leaving its Great
Cave around sunset will see two great black clouds intermingling – the nightly
‘changing of the guard’ as hundreds of thousands of swiftlets return to their
nests, whilst an approximately equal number of bats fly out to forage in the
forest. A variety of luminous fungi can be clearly seen from the plankwalk at
night.
The surrounding area is
covered in dense primary rain forest and is home to many species of plants and
wildlife.Even today, the caves remain important for local communities, with
birds nest and guano collection providing valuable employment and income. The
national park runs a swiflet conservation programme in ‘Gua Perintah’.
Niah Caves is a very
pleasant place to spend a few days, although most of the major attractions are
accessible to the day visitor. An Iban longhouse – Rumah (house) Patrick Libau – homestay experience can be had and it
is accessible through the national park.
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