Tagged With "Sarawak"

Seems as if PortMoresby has an affinity for blue boats!

It appears so. But there are worse things one could choose.

You can always get me with a market, but this one was especially interesting because of the display of canned goods. Living in a neighborhood with many Caribbean, Asian and South Asian neighbors, I see some of those brands and products in our local fruit stands and small groceries. Truly "world food!"

Wow!,those views from The Pelagus Resort are incredible

Little by little, you're eating away at my resistance to trans-Pacific flying... You always seem to find the best-arranged markets, and the most enticing views of everything else, everywhere!

Hmm, guess this just isn't a war trophy kind of crowd. Or maybe you had to be there.

In all my travels to SE Asia, I haven't made it to Borneo yet. You describe it just as I imagined it to be.

  After a 3 hour trip by express boat from Sibu up the Batang Rejang, the longest river in Borneo, travel pal Jim and I arrived in Kapit.  I liked the look of the place immediately.  The plan was to spend a few days in this riverside...

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.

To view any society one dimensionally makes no sense, of course, except maybe for the sake of a good headline (pun intended).  The people of Borneo were, however, sometimes prone to settling disputes with warfare that included collecting enemy heads.

Kuching, in Malaysian Borneo, was founded by an adventurous Englishman, Rajah James Brooke, on the Sarawak River that was the only access to the interior of that part of Borneo. 

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. 

The impetus for my trip to Borneo came, as it often does for me, from a casual reference or suggestion, in this case both.  First was a phrase I’d seen in passing, "White Rajas of Borneo".