Mulu Marriott Resort
June 2018
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| Arriving in Mulu |
While planning our wildlife and nature tour of Borneo, I discovered that Marriott had a resort property,
Mulu Marriott, in the isolated rainforest adjacent to
Mulu National Park. I was able to cash in my Marriott points to get six free nights at this amazing resort, accessible only by flying in on a 30-minute flight from Miri on the coast.
This wonderful resort served as our base for the exploration of Mulu Park, another Unesco World Heritage site. The Marriott is located just a five minute shuttle ride from the Park headquarters where we were able to book a variety of guided tours into the park to visit its famous caves, visit local villages and hike through its rainforest.
Each night after our park tour we returned to luxury of the resort enjoying the pool, great meals and our upgraded two-room suite overlooking the river.
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| Marriott Mulu pool |
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| Our suite. |
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| Our balcony. |
The Park
Mulu National Park is famous for its cave system so many of the day tours are focused on visiting various caves. Over our five days of tours we visited five caves and each one was amazing. To get to the caves, we usually boarded a long boat with a guide a a few others and went up river to a point her there was a short hike to the cave entrance. Each cave had easy lighted walkways and the guides were excellent at explaining sights and details along the way.
The highlight of our first tour was Deer cave, where we saw the Abe Lincoln rock formation and a million bats fly out at sunset!
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| Boats at the park HQ awaiting daily tours |
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| On our way to a cave tour! |
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| Amazing cave rock formations. |
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| Entrance to Deer Cave and the exit site for the bats. |
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That's Abe in Borneo a natural rock formation
at the entrance of Deer Cave. |
In addition to cave walks, another highlight of our Mulu Park tours was visiting a local village and hiking through the rainforest in the heat to find a cool waterfall.
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| A local weaving that is now on our living room wall. |
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| The most refreshing swim ever! |
Mulu also gave us our beginning insight and exposure to the plants of the Borneo Rainforest. I was disappointed with the birdwatching and lack of wildlife in this area but the plant life was an experience. We will get more and enough birds and wildlife during our next two weeks. Enjoy a few photos of Mulu and its plants.
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| Tallest trees I've ever seen. |
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| Tall trees are held by a butters at the bottom. |
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| Bobbi reading on the Botany Walk in the park. |
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