Jungle Boogie
Dave Says:
We went into the Borneo jungle for a 3 day safari. Normally we don’t do “this is what we did” type postings but it was really cool so we’re going to do one now.
The Kinabatangan river runs through the east of Sabah in the Malaysian Borneo. It represents the lifeline to the rapidly disappearing jungle and rapidly disappearing wildlife. The Malaysians have discovered great money can be made from growing palm trees for palm tree oil and gladly destroy their own jungle to make a quick buck.
We signed on for a 3 day trek by boat into the jungle staying in a basic camp with the excellent Uncle Tan’s tour company. We had great luck spying wildlife. Monkey’s, orang utan, elephants, crocodiles, frog, scorpions….
Hey enough of my blathering, check out the gallery: http://www.davethegrinch.net/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=4069
July 4th, 2007 at 6:20 am
Hey, Borneo, now that’s exotico. Loved the photos.
Chris Rowthorn, who has written many of the Lonely Planet guides for Asia (and lives in my neighborhood in Kyoto) just got back from Borneo…. Yep, the first Lonely Planet guide to Borneo will appear soon! So you were there “BLP.”
He said the heat was intense (June).
Cynthea