Caving at Gua Tempurung

Started our journey to Gua Tempurung, Perak right after Subuh on Saturday. If nak kena pegi keja liat gile nak bangun pagi, tapi if nak bersuka ria boleh plak kan? Hahaks!

Went to pick up Kirah in PJ before heading to Restoran Jejantas Sg. Buloh to meet the rest of the gang. Siap breakfast KFC lagi tu at 6.30am in the morning. If pikir balik, memang agak nak muntahlah jugak hehe.

Arrived at Gua Tempurung Car Park around 9am and dah start cuak with all the stories heard beforehand. Cannot panggil namalah coz takut "something else" will call you in the cave, cannot show that you're afraid coz "something else" is gonna know and it will follow you in the cave and the worst, there will be cockroaches on the cave floor coz bats' shits are their food, what the hell!

Before entering the cave, our tour guide, Michael, gave us some briefing on the dos and donts while in the cave and provided each of us with a safety helmet with headlamps. I tell you, if not because of those helmets, some of us would probably have some brain damage kot by now sebab terhantuk kat all the stalactites and stalagmites while crawling/swiming our way out of the cave.

The first few hours in the cave were kinda like an easy-ride where we got to walk on build-in platforms, climb up some ladders and just enjoy the view. Michael, being a cave enthusiast, adalaa explain to us about the stone structures and history of the cave. One of the highlights of his stories was this:

Apparently Gua Tempurung was once the hide-out place for the Japanese Communists during the Word War II. If you can see from the blurry picture, there's a clock showing it's 7 o'clock and 3 Rolls Royce cars (the last car tu nampak mcm halfway je dlm gambar ni hehe). This carving was later turned out to be the assassination of Sir Henry Gurney who was the first Inspector General of Police in Malaya. The communists were having their secret meeting to come out with the assassination plan in that exact spot in Gua Tempurung. Kuang hajaqqq punye komunis!

Somehow actually seeing and touching it gave me goosebumps dude. This is where history was made mannn! But still, ada jugak some uneducated people who added their own "history" by carving more Rolls Royce cars on a wall nearby but Michael confirmed that those are just bullshits.

Now, the next part of our adventure memang the moments that I've been waiting for! This is when all of us will get wet and dirty muahaha~


We had to slide down a 5-meter high limestone (berdarah jugaklah siku daku ouch), climbed down a cave hole and swam through the cool but muddy water, with some sharp stalactites pointing down right above our heads. At some point, we even had to do some squat-walk and crawl in the water using our elbows ala2 tentera tu chewahh. Dahlah the ground was full of batu2, sakit gak aa but it's all part of the fun hehe.

By the time we got out, memang everybody was wet and glad to see the light at the end of the tunnel hehe. But the cool water in the cave just made me even more excited to start our next activity - white water rafting at Sungai Kampar wooohooo!

And oh, all those talks about bat shits dropping in your mouth, cockroaches running around and "something else" following you in the cave were either just talks or happened somewhere else. We didn't see a single bat (just their shits with awful smell) or cockroach pun. And there wasn't any 'kejadian mistik' berlaku, Alhamdulillah. So it's all goood bebeh~

More pictures can be viewed here.