Anyone didn't fall? -- my 3rd visit to Niah

My 3rd visit. You'd never get bored with repeat-visit to a wonderful place cuz everytime you drop-by, you see new things, you perceive new clinks. Besides, come in with different bunch of friends always make a revisit feel differently.

... and sometimes, you'd never know what kind of surprises you might get during a revisit....

I should put my 3rd visit to Niah Cave as the most unforgettable one, because of the surprise I got. After trailing for about 2km, we were welcome by an under-construction 'walk-way' which was not less than 1.5km long.

Alright maybe I should put a paragraph describing the so-called 'walk-way'. It consisted of three beams, with 6 inches width each. These beams aligned parallel to each other with the separation of about 0.5m, so basically most of us chose to cat-walking on one beam, and trying to keep ourselves balanced before falling into the swamp underneath -- and that is the most proper part of it. The rest of the time, we were struggling, mentally and physically, walking on a bouncing wooden beam, 6 inch width as well, with the surface full of algae, and sometimes we were forced to over cross a fence that supposed to prohibit people to over-crossing it. Well, remember those 'crossing-obstacle-race' in secondary school? It was kinda it.

Well the journey walking on those skinny beams, helping each other up, admiring the freshness and the wonderful of nature, taking pictures of those candid moments yada yada yada.. was pleasant while the row of us setting our pace getting deeper and deeper into the Niah cave... but it was no longer a 'pleasant summer outing' when came to the time to get out from the deepest part of the caves area.

Ironic enough to think that walking on the same path way but with two totally different moods. When most of us were getting dehydrated, exhausted and demotivated, the sky started to turn dark. It was really a mental and physical challenge for some of us -- 9km of walking INTO the forest and into the caves, then another 9km of walking ahead to GET OUT OF the darkening jungle -- some might think that we were just a bunch of nuts. :>

Anyway, we all survived. Just like I said to Dani and Juanne,

"Regard of the huffing and puffing during the 18km journey, yg penting, you've gone through the test, so be proud of yourselves."

... and, regardless of how tough and how hard of the 18km, as I always believe, those tough and hard time happened during a journey will eventually become something sweet and fun to talk about after the journey.

Likewise, right after the journey, we laughed at the scene where three adult men holding hand together, walking on three beams sided by side, like 'orang bercinta (quoted)'; we talked about there's somebody touched an ulat bulu and somebody else actually grabbed an ulat bulu; we agreed that Pn Asiah is the steadiest and toughest lady in our group; we couldn't forget the lad who insisted on wearing safety helmet while jungle trekking; we couldn't forget the time we fell and straight away we laughed; and we started to love Tiger biscuits.

I thought my 3rd visit to Niah cave will be another chance for me to capture more nice pictures, getting close again to the nature and having fun with this new gang of visitors. But there was actually more I got. You'd never get bored with a repeat-visit to a wonderful place, cuz you'd never know what kind of surprises you'd get.

ps.. I know this is long. I need space to put all the pictures into this post, and I need something besides studying, to help me get sleepy.