KUCHING: The Wind Cave Nature Reserve near here, which was temporarily closed last month due to serious flooding, is now reopened to the public.
Repair work on the damage caused by the flooding has been carried out and the cave is now ready to receive visitors again, Sarawak Forestry Corporation said in a statement yesterday.
Located about 50km from here, the Wind Cave is a popular tourist attraction.
It is surrounded by villages, rubber estates, pepper gardens, cocoa plantations and rainforest.
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Natural treasure: The Wind Cave has interesting limestone features
which were formed thousands of years ago. |
There is a stream running through the cave, which also has diverse flora and fauna.
The Wind Cave has conservation significance due to its extraordinary limestone formations which are thousands of years old.
Some of the rock formations resemble figures and animals, making them a point of religious interest for some locals.
The Wind Cave was formed during the Jurassic-Cretaceous period.
Excavations by early explorers such as Beccari in 1865 showed that people inhabited the cave until recent times.
Earthenware vessels, charcoal and pieces of marine and freshwater shells have been found, making the cave an important archaelogical site
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