Mount Api is a limestone peak situated in Sarawak Malaysia’s Gunung Mulu National Park is a veritable wonderland with an abundance of remarkable biodiversity and unusual geodiversity. The nearby Mount Benarat and Mount Buda belong to the same formation, and Mount Api is well-known for its remarkable limestone karst formations, which are colloquially referred to as “the pinnacles.” These limestone pinnacles of the National Park are also a breathtaking sight to see. The region’s richness in tropical rainforest allows sandstone pinnacles and limestones to grow through the network of caves and mountains, which includes the magnificent Mount Mulu, Mount Api, and Mount Benarat.
Numerous caves can be found on the mountain, and there are connections to the extensive Clearwater Cave system. During the Benarat 2005 Caving Expedition, the second-largest chamber in Malaysia, Api Chamber, was found on Mount Api. At least eight species of pitcher plants (bell-shaped), including Nepenthes campanulata, Nepenthes faizaliana, Nepenthes hurrelliana, Nepenthes lowii, Nepenthes muluensis, Nepenthes tentaculata, Nepenthes veitchii, and Nepenthes vogelii, may be found on Mount Api. The Pinnacles, a collection of tall, razor-sharp limestone spikes that rise miraculously out of the earth into the sky and reach halfway up the slopes of Gunung Api, is a work of Mother Nature’s art.
Backdropped against the soft green of Gunung Benarat, the cold, grey spikes rise peacefully but angrily look almost alien. Another breathtaking sight is the Garden of Eden at Mount Api, which showcases one of the finest karst collapses in the world with its sharp, blade-like pinnacles of limestone. A popular site in the park is the Melinau Limestone Formation, which depicts a remarkable concentration of caves, a subterranean of enormous chambers, and massive flowing underground rivers. Mount Api elevation is 1,710 meters (5610) above sea level.
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