Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 14, 2014: River Boats, Sarawak
These graceful boats are tied up at a dock in Kapit, up the Batang Rejang, the Rejang River, 3 hours or so in an express boat from the South China Sea.
These graceful boats are tied up at a dock in Kapit, up the Batang Rejang, the Rejang River, 3 hours or so in an express boat from the South China Sea.
I flew from Kota Kinabalu, KK in local parlance, northern Borneo in the State of Sabah, Malaysia, to Sibu in Sarawak, for the sole purpose of traveling by public express boat up the Batang Rajang, the river that serves as the primary highway into the fabled rain forest of Borneo.
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