Bat Cave (လင်းနို့ဂူ) — Attraction in Hpa-An District

While a cave does exist and holds all the bats, you don't see it nor walk in it, you will arrive at a gate where 1000kyat entrance is admitted than walk 50 more meters to the Pagoda platform and stairs where you can either walk up around 20meters for a beautiful view over the river, the mountains to the east and the south and see the big bridge. Sunset is beautiful but you DO NOT see the sun. Inly the reflection on the river and the water. You have the mountains blocking the west. At sunset one of the monks will making sounds that make the bats leave the cave, this goes on for around 20 or more minutes in a constant endless stream of bats, hard to see them at first if you are on the pagoda's top but once they swarm above the river it is a nice sight to behold. If you stay down you will see them real well but have less of the panormaic view of the complete massive swarm, I'd say try both as it goes on for a very long time. Start up for 10 minutes...

"Holy Nightmare, Batman!" You've probably heard by now that there are over 500,000 bats in this cave, but you can't really picture what that looks like until you watch a constant stream of bats fly from a small slit in the rocks. Stay on the lower "terrace" for best views, or climb up the metal stairs to the small stupa and hang out with French backpackers who don't really know what they're doing. Obviously, the sunset time varies upon the time of year, so there's no "set time" to arrive, and you don't have to camp out for an hour to get a "good spot" because there's still plenty of room for everyone; and anyone that tells you otherwise is just trying to over-sensationalize the...

An easy hike up to see a beautiful view of the bridge while the sun sets as well as to see the bats fly out from the cave and fly over the bridge to another cave. It was incredible to see the bat formations as they fly together avoiding the birds that try and hunt them. The sunset itself was beautiful but you couldn’t actually see the sun behind the cave. I am not sure if it was the time we went and the bats were not just leaving before dark but there was someone that was beating what sounded like a drum to get the bats to fly out of the cave. This made it seem a little...