Malaysia over the past years have acquired a few
natural environment to become national heritage. Apart from that, UNESCO also
have recognized two of Malaysia's natural wonders as world heritage.
Malaysia now has five World
Heritage Sites recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organisation's (Unesco) World Heritage List, the latest being the
Archaelogical Heritage of the Lenggong Valley (AHLV) in Perak.The others are the
historic cities of Melaka and George Town along the Straits of Melaka, Gunung
Mulu National Park in Sarawak and Kinabalu Park in Sabah.
The Caverns of Gunung Mulu
After the independence of Malaya from the
British empire, two of Malaysia's natural environment has become a world
heritage recognized by the United Nation Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organisation (UNESCO). One of them is Gunung Mulu National Park located in
Sarawak.Gunung Mulu encompasses caves and karst formations in
a mountainous equatorial rainforest setting. The park is
famous for its caves and the expeditions that have been mounted to explore them
and their surrounding rainforest, most notably theRoyal Geographical
Society Expedition of 1977–1978, which saw over 100 scientists in the
field for 15 months. This initiated a series of over 20 expeditions now drawn
together as the Mulu Caves Project.
Another world heritage site in Malaysia is
Gunung Kinabalu State park. situated in the State Sabah the land beneath the
wind, it is the summit of Southeast-Asia the mighty Kinabalu mountain.Kinabalu
Park was gazetted as the first State Park in Sabah in 1964 and declared
Malaysia’s first World Heritage Site by UNESCO in the year 2000 for its
outstanding biological attributes. A sprawling 75, 400 hectares, this melting
pot of natural wonders is larger than Singapore.
Mighty Kinabalu Mountain
Reference: www.sabahtourism.com/sabah-malaysian.../en/.../124-kinabalu-park/
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