Niah Caves

One of the places I always like to visit when in Miri are the Niah Caves, a great birding area about an hour's drive from Miri.

The walk to the caves has some good birding, especially along some of the muddy side tracks, but beware of the concrete sections of the path to the caves, as it's damp most of the time and on any small slope it's like trying to walk on ice! I'm sure every day a lot of visitors must end up falling on their bum!









A beautiful carved pole with traditional Sarawaks designs at the start of the walk

You must pay the ferryman! To get into the park, you must get the little boat across the Sungai Niah.

The Sungai Niah is a fairly major river. It was interesting to see a number of Wood Sandpipers feeding along the grassy river edges in the rainforest.

Steve and Liz on the 3km path and boardwalk to the caves.

One of the many small rainforest creeks that cross the path. Excellent spots to spend an hour and see what birds turn up.

An interesting fleshy Jew's Ear fungus.

One of the many rainforest millipede species, a species of Tractor Millipede.

A very colourful species of Assassin Bug. A nice big black proboscis for suck out the body juices of other insects.

A Trilobite Beetle, but this was a black one. Most of the other ones I've seen in Bornean rainforests have been coloured black and orange.

Beautiful big orange millipedes can be found along the walkway to the caves.

While it's still damp in the early morning, a few species of rainforest snails are on the move after last nights feeding.