Visiting Goa Batu Cermin, Flores, Indonesia
Hello Steemians,
In this post I will talk about the Batu Cermin Cave in Flores, Indonesia.
Batu Cermin means ‘mirror rock’ in Indonesian. The locals gave this name to the cave, because through a hole, sunshine finds its way into the cave’s inside, where it bounces on the stone walls, and reflects in many directions, like a mirror, illuminating the whole area (1).
The cave lies in the middle of a forest, where long-tailed monkeys and wild boars live.
Walking in that forest, towards the entrance of the cave, I got an eerie feeling. Something like watching the Blair Witch Project :D
We climbed a ladder to the entrance of the cave, and after a series of pre-chambers, we entered the actual ‘mirror rock’ site.
Inside the cave, there are many colonies of bats, and loads of spiders. To see the bats, you had to go through a hole in the rock. As I am no Batman, and I am actually a bit claustrophobic, I decided to give it a miss.
The others went in, and they told me afterwards that it was awesome. Tough luck.
Towards the exit, one of the group became excited, and decided to play Tarzan :D
I also found this video on YouTube about the cave. It shows some features of the cave with captions, and ... some bats!
And that's the end of this post. I hope you liked it, and that you will follow me to my next one.
This is the last post I'm doing about mystic Flores, as I've run out of pictures. It could be that I find some more pictures in one of my external hard drives, but that isn't very probable.
Next destination will be beautiful, exotic Bali!
So, have a good day, and we'll speak again soon!
References:
1.Text from http://florestourism.com/districts/batu-cermin-limestone-cave/.
Nice story, interesting place, nice pictures.
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thank you onealfa! i've heard of it, actually.
i'll grab some coffee, and then i'll check it out.
happy new year.
done it!
#photography
there really is also like that in other parts of the world, I was surprised
yes, many such places in the world, nasional. happy new year.
#photography
only this time I was amazed to see it, something really beautiful
thank you!
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Nice trip, feel much more free
pssst .. is that you doing the monkey business ? haha
and who was holding the camera? lol
nah, i am fat and plump