A trip up the Rejang River is just another journey … or is it? Rivers are still the highways of Sarawak’s heartlands. The river banks are rich in foliage and longhouses are spaced along them. The wooden forts, built by the White Rajas when they ‘pacified’ the inland tribes, have been turned into museums. Tall durian trees and painted burial boxes look down on the passing speed boats. Our adventure began the day after the Rain Forest Festival of World Music finished for 2005. Four of us (Robert, Dave, Sarah and me) left Kuching and went by large ferry down the Sarawak River, across Sarawak bay, into one of the distributaries of another delta, and finally into the Sungai Rejang proper. It was a longish trip, with no food provided. We spent Night One in a
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