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. History of the Cave 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. Then the ocean floor had to be uplifted from under
the sea by massive movements of the earth's crust. Finally
rainfall and flowing water had to work its magic for the next
250 million years or so, carving sinkholes, chimneys and
galleries from the limestone rock. 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. That's why we humans
have to look after our caves. If we