oh my! i went to borneo on a month long world challenge expedition. borneo is the most amazing place, and bario really is so beautiful! this makes me so sad, but as for those planes... BEWARE. our engine cut out and we nearly crashed, a man went behind me to start praying. oh borneo 09, we miss you!! xx
It is so familiar I was in Cambodia in 2006 in the provinces with a small group of Methdoist Short Term Missionaries from Sarawak. So your account refreshes my memories of my time there. We brought underwear for the children and when the parents came again for the next visit they showed us their children's new underwear!! And while we were having activities - many of the parents too
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Wuzhou railway station If I may update the above information for other travellers. I returned from a visit to Wuzhou yesterday (Sept 11th 2009 and can tell you that Wuzhou railway station is now open. at present there is only one train per day between Nanning and Wuzhou which stops frequently and takes over 7 hours but is much cheaper than the bus. I didn't use the train because of time constraints.
The project is still unfinished. The station concourse is still a building site and the access roads are unpaved so there are no buses to town. Be careful it is over amile on dirt roads and taxis are reluctant to do the trip. However this is a high level project with funding and politicla backing from the highest levels and in these circumstances things get done fast in China so I would expect the station to be fully operational with trains running east and west within a few months.
Kapit Dear Gillian
Thank you for your remarkable writeup on the Rejang (You have spelt it Renjang) . I am looking forward to my own group trip to the longhouses of Kapit this Friday.
My friend Daniel Yiek told me about your blog. It is indeed heartwarming to know that you have written about it and I am about to write about it too. You have a different perspective as a traveller and I will see what I am going to write. My previous 5 trips were made more than 40 years ago. So I am going back an an "elder". But Kapit may still be just the same giving me all the pleasures of someone going back to the forest!! Perhaps only the river is brown.
But I may be totally wrong.
Hoping to hear from you too.
Sarawak Forts Great post. I'm the author of Sarikei Time Capsule blog and someone left a comment on my blog re the condition of Fort Alice ...
If you can, pls correct the typo (spelling) of Betong and Sarikei in your posts so that it's searchable by others.
There are more forts. Search "fort" at this great blog http://sarawakiana.blogspot.com/
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Having seen the festival 2 years ago I feel the festival lacked the same lustre this year. The toilets, while still functional,were too few and not nearly as well set out.This last point resulted in the odour being somewhat less than desirable. The most noticeable difference was the change from a pine sawdust used 2 years ago, to breakdown waste and suppress odour, to this year using a regular garden mulch which was not nearly as effective.For some time there were not even any scoops provided to transfer the mulch, forcing some to use their hands while others just didn't bother. While we are aware that there were problems with volunteer numbers its hard to understand the change in infrastructure. The problems faced by various acts with the sound on some major stages were not lost on much of the audience and it looked like at lest one international act won't be keen again after walking off stage. The people definitely made the festival and a good time was had.We hope the above mentioned issues can be resolved.
Re: Composting toilets They supplied large wheelie bins and substituted new ones as they filled. There must have been a huge pit behind the next hill!!! (It all worked rather well.)
Composting toilets I'm aware of composting toilets, Polly, but how well do you think they did at coping with the number of people there over the festival? I'd worry that they wouldn't be up to the task.
The grandkids would have enjoyed the restrooms, especially with the bear and elephant...maybe not quite so much the snake though...lol I'll be sure to show them this weekend.
Buddha The "lady" is Buddha -- this is a famous scene from the life of Buddha. Cutting his hair was symbolic of severing his ties with royalty, as long hair was a status symbol, and entering the life of an ascetic.
See similar art, for example, here:
http://www.dhammathai.org/e/life_buddha/lbeng_page7.php
The elder Kelabit in the Otter is, Ribuh Balang, he is the local parang maker. He had been a border scout during our time there in 1964.
His daughter Rose runs the centre cafe, aside the E BARIO office.
Regarding the sledges, the locals refer to them as highland lorries.
I would have liked to have visited the now uninhabited Pa Main, as that was where I was based. Circumstances prohibited this wee trip, so it will have to be next time.
Our Bario stay was in the home of Ngimat Ayu and his wife, Sinah Ngimat Ayu. while in Pa Lungan we stayed overnight in the home stay of Sipang Galih and her husband.
Bario 2008 My self and 2 pals visited Bario in July 2008 a nostalgic trip as we were there in 1964 it had not changed that much ,We walked to a village that I had been in Pa Lungan It had not changed at all the people are lovely and we were made very wellcome ,one difference I noticed was the village hunter had a shotgun instead of a blow pipe which they had in 1964 ah memories
Fascinating. This was a fascinating blow by blow of the typhoon. I wonder how a typhoon compares to a huricane....and why in the US the empty out the cities.....
We have recently been through our own hurricane. All we got was wind, but enough to knock our power out for as long as ten days in some places.
What a wonderful trip. Thanks for taking me along!
Selamat Hari Raya Hi Gillian! Selamat hari raya! Raya is on Thursday in Brunei, so yes, we'll catch up here over raya. How do i contact u in Brunei? Kim's planning to visit with you like u did last year. see you soon! take care
"No more boats" ....seems to be a reoccurring theme... You definitely needed to be creative in your thinking!
Even without speaking the language, I would recognize that Coca Cola can anywhere.
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GWD.... all these web sites... I can't keep up... Phew Frederick