<< Our Photo Pages >> Niah Caves - Cave or Rock Shelter in Malaysia
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Natural PlacesSite Name: Niah Caves Alternative Name: Niah Great Cave, Niah Painted CaveCountry: Malaysia
NOTE: This site is 69.258 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Miri Nearest Village: Batu Niah
Latitude: 3.824220N Longitude: 113.762100E
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5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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The site is located in the Niah National Park and involves a walk through the jungle on a long plank walkway. Nowadays there are huge colonies of bats and swallows inhabiting the giant cave.
Excavation sites are located just inside the main overhanging entrance of Niah Great Cave. Here tools, cooking utensils and ornaments were found. Further into the cave are burial sites dating from the Paleolithic to the last millennia.
Nearby is the Niah Painted Cave with rock paintings dated to 600 years ago.
The location coordinates are given for the park headquarters from where a boat and then plank walk lead you to the site.
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