Bat Cave Bats Cave is located on the banks of the Kilim River in the northeastern part of Langkawi Island.
You can only enter the Cave of the Bats by boat. Having moored to the shore, you pass along a wooden platform through mangrove swamps and get directly into the cave. But before you enter it you have to go through the local law enforcement officers - the ubiquitous monkeys, who sit on the handrails and tree branches, like real sentinels.
After passing through a narrow grotto, you find yourself in a huge hall, where giant stalactites hang from the walls, and stalagmites stretch towards them from below from the bottom of the cave. In some places, having reached each other, they merge together, forming strange numbers and resembling unearthly creatures. Directly opposite the exit you will find ornate formations of greenish limestone that look like a portrait of an ancient man accompanied by a dog (or young deer). In this regard, this cave is also called Family Cave. A wooden walkway leads directly through the cave and exits on the other side around the base of the limestone hill directly to the marina.
The Bat Cave includes two cave systems with an area of about 270 square meters. On the walls and arch of the cave you can see interspersed with very old shells. This serves as evidence that this area was a sandy seabed millions of years ago, and sea level about 5,000 years ago was two meters higher than today. The strata of the earth were pushed upward by powerful tectonic movements.
If you look up, you will see under the arches of the cave a huge number of bats that settled here.