As the sun disappeared below the horizon we turned our eyes back to the hills, watching and waiting. And then we started to see the bats of Mulu take flight.
Waiting for the sun to set and the bats of Mulu to take flight, mother nature treated us to this wonderful rainbow as a shower drifted across the hills.
Quite why these three bats chose this spot I've no idea. But apparently, every evening they'd head out to feast in the jungle and then return here again at dawn. Home, sweet home!
It was here that I made a mistake I was to repeat several times in the caves - I stepped off the path. The material on the floor in front of me is tens of thousands of years accumulation of bat and swiftlet droppings - a big steaming pile of bat shit! I didn't realize that till I stepped off the path and my foot started to sink into this soft, gooey material. As I said, I made that same mistake several times!