Gua Tempurung, Gopeng

Gua Tempurung, located 25km south of Ipoh near Gopeng, is probably the largest cave in Peninsula Malaysia and has plenty to attract the serious caving enthusiast, the adventure seeker or just the casual visitor. A lot of work went into creating this massive cave. First of all this entire area, known as the Kinta Valley, needed to be covered by sea. Billions of microscopic marine organisms had to die and fall to the ocean floor where their tiny shells were compressed into limestone. Meanwhile millions of specs of calcium carbonate contained in drops of dissolved limestone coagulated together at an infinitesimally slow rate to create the wonders of stalagmites and stalactites. #awesomepic#naturalwonders#culturalattractions#nationalpark