Tagged: borneo

sun bursts above peaks on the summit of mount kinabalu, borneo, malaysia

Climbing Mount Kinabalu

Dali would have loved the summit of Mount Kinabalu, the highest peak between the Himalayas and New Guinea. Granite towers, horns and cowslicks protrude improbably...

The flag of Sabah state, with Mount Kinabalu shaded in blue on the top left.

Ulp. It's an Alp.

When a mountain makes it onto the state flag, you know it’s a big old mountain. And Mount Kinabalu, which stands over 4000m above Sabah...

Bright green chameleon perched on a branch amid leaves. Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.

Of Canopies and Caves

This is the view down over the lower storey of the rainforest canopy, in Mulu National Park, Sarawak, from the longest canopy skywalk in the...

View from a low-flying prop plane over Mulu National Park and the Mulu River. Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.

From Hunter-Gatherers to Human Zoo

Leaving Mulu National Park on a little propeller plane, with rivers unspieling below us, a scattered handful of logging tracks carving their way across the...

Stream of bats swirl across the twilit sky. Deer Cave, Mulu National Park, Sarawak, Borneo.

Three Million Bats

Deer Cave, at Mulu National Park, Borneo, is one of the largest cave chambers in the world, and home to as many as three million...

Fiddlehead ferns and shoots of jungle plants laid out on a blue tarpaulin. Kapit, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.

Fighting Cocks and Jungle Ferns

We took three boats to Gunung Mulu, the serene and beautiful national park deep in the forests of Sarawak, with ancient caves carved deep into...

Illuminated fairground entrance with the legend UK Funfair, Bintulu, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.

The Coolest Fairground Worker Ever?

Of all the places in which to find a “UK Funfair”, complete with British registration plates on the lorries, Bintulu, Sarawak, would come pretty low...

Men from the Kayan tribal minority of Borneo carry a 32-man war canoe down to the Balui River.

The Big Race

Watching two women’s eights, one women’s sixteen, and a mighty war canoe paddled by thirty-two men powering their way up the Balui River in the...

Three platforms laden with forest timber plough their way down the Batang Rejang, Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia.

The Vanishing Forest

Some things, simply, look too big, too plentiful to ever be used up. The herds of bison that clouded the American plains; the trees of...