Next caving adventure is the Wind Cave, which is situated within 15 minutes drive away from Fairy Cave. Unlike Fairy Cave where one has to climb the four storey high staircase, we walked on a boardwalk at Wind Cave into the mouth of the cave.
At the entrance, there is information board which generally says, there are three passage way.
Choices of passage at Wind Cave
1) Passage No. 1 – Distance 320 meters with a journey of 25 minutes
Points of interest : Fruit Bat, Sink Hole, Stalagmite and Stalactite, Mix Formation, Cave View, Bell-Hole, Common Swiftlets, Drappery, Honey Comb
2) Passage No. 2 – Distance of 120 meters with a journey of 10minutes
Points of interest : Fossils & Underground Stream
3) Passage No. 3 – Distance 120 meters with a journey of 10 minutes
Points of interest : Insect Bat, Photokarst
I only had time to cover Passage No. 1. So here are the pictorial stories:-
Wind Cave got its name from the cooling breeze blowing continuously through the cave.
The tubular limestone cave was formed during the Jurassic-Cretaceous period, roughly 60 million years ago. Dinosaur age cave, it is. The board walk runs throughout the length of the cave.
Interior of Wind Cave Nature Reserve
The interior of the cave is unlit and therefore a flash light is essential. A small stream curls through the cave and joins Sungai Sarawak Kanan at the northern end.
The stalagmites and stalactites formation definitely impressed Adameben who was pointing towards to formation with Poobritney looking on.
It looks like a frog to Evelyn but it passes to me as a squirrel. At the entrance of Passage No. 1. Not sure what legend is attached to this animal-looking stone.
Don’t get cheated. I used forced flash from my camera. It was really dark inside the cave.
Some of the formations inside Passage No.1, Wind Cave Nature Reserve.
Correct me if I’m wrong. I think that’s the curtain.
The circle formation is known as bell-holes. It is the markings of bats that cling onto the same position on the limestone in which they emit respirations and urine causing the limestones to develop into the bell-holes.
There’s a fruit bat near the bell-holes.
This is avens – the larger version of bell-holes.
Wind Cave is not a show cave. You shall expect nothing but natural lighting, if any. Trying to photograph Wind Cave is in itself an adventure. Many a times, I could not fix a focus. Hence, I walked ahead heart broken.
One hand with smartphone, another with camera.
At the end of the Passage No. 1, I managed to get a heart shape cave opening. Though not a perfect heart shape.
Getting to Wind Cave
The Wind Cave Nature Reserve is 48km from Kuching and 5km from Bau town, or about 45 minutes drive from Kuching City Centre. Sarawak Transport Company bus No. 2 (from the Gambier Road Bus Terminal) travels to Bau hourly from 6am to 6pm. From Bau bus terminal you can board bus No. 3A that plies along Bau–Bidi Road hourly from 6am-6.30pm – ask the driver to let you off at the Wind Cave junction, from where it is 10-15 minutes walk to the Nature Reserve. Alternatively, a number of Kuching tour operators offer tours to the Wind Cave, often combining it with other attractions in the area. (Source : Sarawak Forestry)
The trip to Wind Cave Nature Reserve, Kuching was made possible by Tourism Selangor and Sarawak Tourism Board as part of #tsdayout Special Edition Selangor Meets Sarawak. Airasia flies direct to Kuching from Kuala Lumpur 12 times a day.