Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
( 7.30am-9pm)
Offers a fine introduction to the park as a 'biodiversity hotspot' and to
its extraordinary geology. Situated in the new HQ building, between the park office and
Café Mulu.
BIRDWATCHING
Tree Top Tower
(admission free, key deposit RM50)
Basically a 30m-high bird hide. The best time to spot
our feathered friends is early in the morning (5am to 9am) or in the late afternoon and
early evening (4pm to 8pm). Reserve a time slot and pick up the key at park HQ or, after
4.30pm, from Park Security (across the boardwalk from the park office). Situated about
500m from park HQ.
Guided Forest Walks
Nightwalk
(Night Shift; per person RM10; 7pm except if raining)
The ideal first-night introduc-
tion to the park's nocturnal fauna, this 1½- to two-hour walk (the route varies) wends its
way through alluvial forest. Creatures you're very likely to see - but only after the guide
points them out - include tree frogs just 1cm long, enormous spiders, vine snakes that are
a dead ringer for a vine wrapped around a branch, and stick insects (phasmids), ex-
traordinary creatures up to 30cm long that look like they've been assembled from pencils
and toothpicks. If you put your torch (bring one!) up to eye level and shine it into the fo-
liage, the eyes of spiders and other creatures will reflect brightly back.
Don't wear insect repellent or you risk repelling some of the insects you're trying to
see. Mosquitoes are not a problem.
If you order dinner at the Wild Mulu Café before heading out, you can pick it up when
you return (make sure you're back before 9.30pm). Eateries outside the park stay open
later.
You can take the nightwalk trail on your own, without a guide, either before 5pm (so
that your scent, which scares away the wildlife, dissipates before the guided group comes
through) or after 8pm. Make sure you inform either the park office or, when it's closed,
someone in the Park Security pavilion. Between 5pm and 8pm, you can design your own
nightwalk by taking trails the guided group isn't using.
WALKING
Mulu Canopy Skywalk
(per person RM35; departures every 1 or 2 hrs 7am-2pm)
Climbing up into the rain-
forest canopy is the only way to see what a tropical rainforest is all about because most of
WALKING
