Old posts from my very first travel website and my first backpacking trip (a year in 2000-2001)! We’re enjoying Malaysia more now that we are on Borneo instead of the peninsula. Malaysia is much more advanced than Indonesia and not as friendly. One cool thing on the peninsula was the oldest forest in the world where we saw giant monitor lizards and leaches (on our ankles!).
Saw wild orangutans the other day and they bit the leg of one of the other tourists! We’ll never make it as journalists - we did not get a photo. No injuries, though. We have also had to keep our drug trafficing to a minimum (just a joke in case any govt officials are reading this!) since it holds a mandatory death sentence in Malaysia.The jungles here are amazing. We’ve seen a lot of the national parks which have great hikes, huge caves, lots of monkeys & butterflies, and bizarre bugs! We also stayed in an Iban longhouse, and visited a couple of other longhouses. One of them still had skulls hanging from the headhunting days! We have met some really nice people and have become somewhat fond of the locally distilled rice wine - Tuak.
We have seen a lot of logging here which is depressing, but you can’t really blame the Malaysians when it’s the other countries buying all the wood from them. We also celebrated Steve’s bday in Mulu National Park with about a million bats.
Borneo Better than Mainland
Jungles and headhunters! That's the theme in Borneo.
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