Surviving 5-hours in Malaysia’s Gua Tempurung cave
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- Опубліковано 16 тра 2024
- We just took a 200km train trip from Kuala Lumpur to a Malaysian city that’s known as much for its vibrant food and arts scene as for its rich mining history. But we’re here for a different kind of adventure: we’re about to climb, crawl, and swim deep into one of the country’s hottest caves, in an experience that’s sure to be a physical challenge for the entire fam. Let’s get to it.
Contents:
0:00 Intro
00:29 Arriving in Ipoh
3:21 Heading to adventure
6:39 Entering Gua Tempurung
9:24 Entering pitch dark
16:14 A break outside the cave
18:03 Beginning phase 2
18:41 Getting lost in the cave
19:21 Battling claustrophobia
22:30 Light at the end of the tunnel
23:43 Conclusion
24:33 Behind the scenes
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4 hours in a cave? Oh my goodness. I gotta say, that sounds intense! You really had me on the edge of my seat when you slid down those rocks. I hope everyone's injuries are healed up by now. B&C really did an incredible job. They're so brave! Great job, fam!
So brave! We had a few bumps and bruises but everyone healed up nicely 👍🏻
What Malaysia does best is professional and organized activities all over the country. Thats probably the reason its a travelers magnet.
Makes sense-this adventure was very well run!
Watching from California.. Wow, you guys are amazing!! Thank you for sharing your adventures,
Thanks for watching from Cali! We love CA :)
Malaysia is so underrated. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.
It really is. So many beautiful places and adventures to have.
You should try the Mulu Caves next in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. It has the largest cave opening and the longest cave passageway in the world. Now that is a challenge! 😊
Wow you guys survived!🎉🎉Congrats for conquering another great adventure. Hope y'all well rested now. Looking forward to your next vid.
Thank you!! 🙏🫶
Another amazing video! Looking forward to seeing more of your Malaysian adventures 😀
Thank you! 😃
Kudos for you guys! That was amazing watching on line, but the claustrophobia in me is screaming as you crawl into those tight spaces.
What an adventure, guys! But first of all, Ipoh looks so lush and jungle-like. Such a perfect place for Colt.
It’s beautiful there! Colt was in heaven at our resort. There was a huge monitor that swam in the lake at the same time every day 🫶 🦎
I was born & raised in Ipoh and always find the city boring growing up. However lately it seems like the city is booming. Lots of tourists coming in and there is even going to be a new bigger airport with more direct flights within the next few years. I am excited.
Thank you for sharing us this wonderful adventure!!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 🤗
I think philippines has this adventure as well I saw a vlog. Samaguing cave in sagada
We will look into it. Every new adventure seems to spark ten more 🤩
I went to Ipoh for camp, instead of staying in hotels, as part of the camp experience, stayed in tents. The cave you went in , is the same one that I went into as part of my camp, the awesome thing is that my school, we got to travel to different countries and places.
This really bought back memories of my camp
That is so cool! It sounds like an awesome camp too!
Wow what an awesome experience. Kudos to you guys , amazing job. Take care always. Hello from Sacramento, California.
Thanks! And thanks for watching from Cali 👋
@@AlwaysBeChanging of course I love your vlog, I love the way you guys take care and love one another and willing to explore with your fam. Take care much.
Dang that cave looks prime!!! Awesome vid guys!!
It was beautiful! 🤩 and challenging
Wow You did it guys. Kudos Colt. I am claustrophobic but I heard you saying before you enter the cave "I wanna do it!" I am so proud of you buddy. That's a real wow. Congratulations ABC. Please take care guys. We love you!
Thanks! 🫶 we’re so proud of him too. He’s so brave 🤩
Perseverance, that's what I have tatood on my arm and you guys pushed through it! Thanks for bringing us along.
Yes 🤗perseverance. A great lesson for the kids 🫶
It's monsoon season / rainy
We are lucky to have rain where else in the world is still dry and heat waves
Welcome to Malaysia 🇲🇾
Much love family ❤️
Thank you for welcoming us 🤗
Wat a great adventure for the whole family... I really enjoyed watching u guys hike thru the cave 👍😁
Glad you enjoyed it! It was a great family adventure 🤗
Awesome video! You guys did so well!
Thanks so much!! it was definitely a fun experience 👍🏼
Hey thanks so much for replying! I just went to the cave 3 days ago as my School field trip! Watching your video the day before gave me an overview of the cave and what to expect. I really enjoyed myself there with my friends. Thanks again!
Ps : we went to level/tour 3 too and all of us were soaked but it was a great experience
Gotta mention the coverage is 🔥 Phil really killed it. Don't know how you managed to keep that camera safe though.
He is VERY protective of that camera. He even sleeps with it 😝
That was so cool!!! Loved it❤ I've been following you guys on Instagram so I saw some posts about it❤ God bless you family
Thank you!! 😊 we hope the video did it justice. I wasn’t able to capture as much with my phone as we went through.
@@AlwaysBeChanging ❤️❤️❤️
What a GREAT SCARY adventure. Colt and Brooklyn are WONDERFUL AND DID NOT COMPLAIN. Five hours inside a cave , I don’t know if I will do it . THANK YOU for sharing your EXCITING, SCARY
Adventure!!!!! 😮
👏👏👏👏👏
Glad you enjoyed it! So happy for you to watch us. We’re proud of the kids too. They were amazing 🤩🤗
Wow! That's super intense caves trekking. I love it.
It was a blast!
Loving your videos! Your kids are funny 😂 can I also ask what camera you use to film? Love the quality and sound!
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Watching from dallas..You guys are amazing ..I enjoy watching your adventures...Im originally from the Philippines but I learned a lot about Philippines from your trips...I cant wait to go back home and visit those beautiful places ....
So cool! Thank you for watching us from Dallas 🤗 we hope you get to go back and visit soon.
Got hooked on this episode!
Love hearing that! 👍🏻🫶 thanks for watching!
such a fun experience. your muscles must've been sore afterwards.
i just love brooklyn's sense of humour and both their openness for adventure.
ps. you mentioned you watched something about the thai cave boys and i remember the captain of the team sadly passed away here in england. he was on a football scholarship.
We were so sore and tired the next day!
I hadn’t heard about the team captain. That’s too bad 😞
Love it ❤
Yay! So happy 🤗
Nice experience 😍
Awesome smart kids with amazing parents. Love this vid so much. ❤
Aww thank you so so much 🫶
3:43 Hey Phil you know that's exactly what I thought of first too at the onset of your video. Thirteen Lives was a great movie but nothing we NEVER would wanna experience of course. But sorry I had a laugh at 19:17 - you really had to say that. 😅 Always stay safe in your adventures!
🫶 There won’t be a movie made about us but the good news is we all made it out safely 🤗
Watching from Seattle! Soon we’ll be in the Philippines for Christmas and New Year’s!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉 you guys are super adventurous! Love it!
We can’t wait to get back to PH too 🫶. Thanks for watching us!
My wife and I leave Nov. 13th for our home on Mactan Island, Cebu. We will be there until 11 March 24. Have a Merry Christmas - no snow.
@@janetceniza8091 That’s great to hear! We love Cebu and that’s where we always fly into, then fly to our home in Cagayan De Oro City. Have fun! Advanced Merry Christmas!
Thank You What on earth are you doing in Seattle ? Not the safest place to visit. We live in Everett - 30 miles N. of Seattle. We are in Vistamar Resort, have a 3000 sq ft. home, large lot, 3 doggies and one live in maid who has been with us 7 years. My wife, Eflida, and I are on our 47th year of marriage, pen pals for 5 1/2 years.@@OHANA-Beach-Suites-CDO
Thats definitely a cool adventure.. i love the part when Colt or Brooklyn is freaking out " help us" ha ha. Good adventure guys.
Thanks! It was a great adventure 🤩
That was an amazing experience
So happy you liked it! We had a great time and love that we have that experience 🫶
Wow you guys really got down and dirty for this. Awesomeness at its best!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Anyway after Penang which other states are you visiting here in Malaysia? Do enjoy your remaining days here in Malaysia and do come back here again to visit other places in Malaysia like Melaka, Langkawi, Putrajaya, Sabah, even less famous states like Perlis and the east coast if you ever get the opportunity!🎉🎉🎉Cheers. -A Malaysian subscriber-
Haha we really did. And we have the bruises to prove it 🤩. After Penang we head back to KL. We only had a week for this trip. We look forward to coming back for more 🤗
Huge fan here...hope to meet you guys one day in BGC 🇵🇭...Take care! ☺️
We hope to meet you too! 🤗
They have an upcoming meet, its on one of their videos
What an adventure 😯 Five hours in a cave is terrifying
I wouldn’t even survive that whole cave experience, felt proud for colt and brooklyn, and erin and phil as well❤️
We were so proud of the kids! 🤩 they didn’t just come along they were eager to go from one challenge to another.
❤ amazing ❤
🤗🫶🤩🙏🙏
In langkawi island, it is 500m years old. Our tropical forest is 130 to 200m years old. Older than amazon.
So cool! We’ll have to learn more about that.
Watching support from philippines❤
Thanks for watching us! 🤗
Awesome 💪💪💪😱
🙏🙏🙏🤗👍🏻
Erin you’re so wonderful and delightful to watch. …of course you guys are as a family but no matters what’s circumstances and challenges you faced in. You always find excitement and joy in every adventures you do. Fine character at its best. I love you❤ your family.
Thank you so much! That made my day 🤗 thank you for making me smile 😀
I'm giving you a like. This is not an easy task. Filming a video and doing this. You guys are adventurous.
Thank you so much. We enjoy doing it so it makes the task easier 😊
husband having his tea and taking in your next adventure - 7:45 am on the West Coast - speaking of rain in the PH, My brother came to Cebu to visit
us 2013 - thinking he would have some warm weather - it started raining lightly the day he arrived and every day until he left 15 days later. Never poured hard
so we couldn't do anything, just a damp visit. ( hasn't been back ).
Too bad his visit had bad weather. It's always a gamble and nothing anyone can control.
Ipoh my lovely hometown ❤
So happy to share our adventure there 🫶
Life's an adventurous journey. Our Mother Land is blessed with amazing adventures. Happy life always. May our Mother Earth be blessed with peace snd harmony.
🙏 we love that we are able to experience so many wonderful things in this world.
Wow! Did you do tour 3 or 4?
I can’t remember which was which but we asked for the most adventurous one 👍🏻
Awesome
So happy you liked it!
Thanks Phil! My wife has been trying to get me to buy allbirds! Now I know it works for travel and spelunking haha. Is it the waterproof one? PS, She wears Allbirds I wear ONs. haha :)
Also, Brooklyn and Colt!!! So brave!!!
Edit: oh, never mind I saw the Allbirds link! thank you!
Mine definitely are not waterproof - they're completely mesh, so the water goes and flows back out. Love them!
23:34 BROOKLYN i adore your humor girl !!😂😂😂😂 I would love to be doing outdoor stuff with you and that sick sly humor. 😅😅😅
5 hours in a cave I can't imagine when I only have tried 2 hours in a wet dark cave crawling, bruised like you -- the days of pain and sore that followed plus soiled useless underwear thereafter.. made me say would not do it again i promise....good job Lockwoods. Core memories for the kids esp since Colt is claustrophobic...but nailed it.
Miss Erin ...what kind of weather is it again down there?? Haha I think it was lack of oxygen so loss of words for you eh?😂😂😂 Writer's block 😅😅😅
And Sir Phil....I watched and followed the news on Thai Cave rescue when it happened watched it daily as it unfolded 2 weeks I think. That is sooo awesome, active cave footage.... your camera gear should sponsor you!!!
She has a funny side and a dark side, sometimes they mix 😆 😂. I don’t think Phil or I would have lasted another minute but the kids could have kept going 🤯
🤭🙃 It was hot but Phil vowed to stop complaining it was hot so I wasn’t going to do it for him 😝
They should! Phil does such a great job always improving our equipment.
Someday you can come to Indonesia to get the China made High speed train from Jakarta to Bandung.
Yes! We really want to go back to Jakarta. We also want to do more islands in Indonesia.
If anybody going to the cave, there is also great white water rafting not very far from the cave
That would’ve been a lot of fun too!
Hahaha...good one folks
It was fun 🤗
If you are to recommend the better country for expats to retire into, is it Malaysia or the Philippines?
malaysia haha stay in the center and travel around to Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore occasionally
Since we’re still just visitors to both countries, it’s hard for us to say. We haven’t had to deal with ownership rights, taxes, visas, etc. I do have friends who have moved to 🇵🇭 and it seems to be a great choice 👍🏼
@AlwaysBeChanging that's right, still too early to say. But I might say that condominiums in Malaysia are way better and cheaper than BGC. Infrastructure, especially the traffic is more convenient and more developed. And lastly, less people, less trash.
That part where you have slide down looks really dangerous. Bruised bottom and coccyx, ouch! There’s no other way around it? Be safe!
We really wish we knew to wear pants. But bruises heal. We’re all good 👍🏻
Try spelunking in Sagada at Sumaguing Cave I think it's better❤
We’ve been hearing more about that. We’ll look into it! 🤩
Is malaysia expensive to go for a vacation?
Everything in Malaysia was very affordable compared to the west. It was refreshing to see how far our money could go. 👍🏼
# 2 so obviously this trip is for young-er family's - I have colts problem although I did not see real tight places. When my mind starts to panic is when I
am so tight I can not move my arms or turn around. The cold water could be a problem for some. ( i think the tour operators should at least have some small
reflectors on the cave wall that a person could follow so YOU WILL NOT GET LOST. Maybe get an O - Light, really light up the cave. My boot camp obstacle
course wasn't too bad. A little dirty, wet, tear gas for a few seconds, I lived - .
It was clear how much easier it was for the kids than Phil and I. We were absolutely exhausted by the end and they probably could have gone a few more hours.
You may visit Sagada in the Philippines,
Yes! That's really interesting to us :)
Batu caves is 400m years old
Awesome 👏🏼👍🏻
This is something that I would totally do! I would have never thought. Thank you!
Is it hotter than The Philippines and Thailand? I went to Thailand not to long ago and people have said Malaysia is way hotter than both countries because its closer to the equator.....
Makes sense it would be hotter but it felt the same to us this time of year. The cave was very humid in there though. It was a great adventure!
This is the ninh binh of malaysia.
That was actually a tailless whip scorpion at 12:56. 😊
Yikes, still don' want to go near it :)
@AlwaysBeChanging Haha, I feel ya. I don't like the way it looks either😄.
it's like a treasure hunting in the movie 😄i wonder who's the first person discovered the route in the cave.
We were wondering the same thing… Probably took many people over many years to fully explore. Plus, I’m sure it was a whole different experience before they added all of the stairs and handrails!
My condolences to all the tail bones going down that rock slide. I have a bad back also and I felt that. 😂
Phil is still hurting :(
Yes mitch's on the horizon did it
Yes 😊 his boys are even younger. Brave kids!
Advice to myself if I ever go to cave adventure like this - wear jogger pants, long sleeves 👕, face mask 😷, glasses 🤓, head lamp, nitrile 🧤, water bottle, and plastic bag.
Good call! Maybe also wear a padded seat under your pants -- Phil broke his tailbone on that first rock slide 😬
5 hours? 😮😮
Yes. There were a lot of people in our group. But I still think it typically takes 4 hours. We were a little confused on some communication before we went and thought it was and hour and a half so we didn’t bring any food or snacks. 🫤
wow
I remember the one cave in Thailand were people were rescued few yrs ago@@AlwaysBeChanging
" i see light...."..😂
She’s such a goofball 😆
Brooklyn is such a funny girl.
😂 indeed!
In Negros Oriental has also it takes less than a day. And not touristy like there. And its natural one. Not from mining cave. its located Mabinay Town. NEGROS ORIENTAL. THERE IS REALLY Challenging.
We'd love to explore more caves in Philippines :)
Tempurung= coconut shell.
🤦♀️ didn’t even get it right with two tries. 😊 our guide actually told us it was coconut fruit but maybe there was some confusion over the right word translation.
I hv fear of height and space. Not for me.
We get it. We were so proud Colt tried it eagerly with us even though he was scared.
Gua = cave, tempurung = 🥥 shell. Thank goodness your video is only 25 minutes. If it is 4 hours, i wont watch it 😂
Hope you enjoyed it! Thanks for helping out with the terms 👍🏼
I think you can speak malay😂
Nobody cares
We do so shut up!
We do!!!
We do! Love your videos!
you better binge-watch this Family so you will know what positivity is Marc 😉
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