Category:Travel

One way of commuting around Gunung Mulu National Park is by longboat. The other way is by foot. Those are your choices. Mulu, 1989
February 9, 2013

Daily Photo – Commuting in Mulu

This is the same boat and same guides that brought me to Mulu from Long Terawan (and that would return me to Long Terawan...

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Three young boys navigate their boat on the Melinau River. Note the boy in the middle bailing out the boat. Gunung Mulu National Park, 1989.
February 7, 2013

Daily Photo – Mulu Boat Boys

I took this photo from the banks of the Melinau River in the Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak, back in 1989.

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On one of my day hikes around Mulu we passed this longhouse or communal dwelling. Raised up off the jungle floor, they would have been roofed with leaves in the days before corrugated iron was invented.
February 6, 2013

Daily Photo – Mulu Longhouse

These buildings are multi-family dwellings with a public space along one side and private divided spaces on the other. The raised floor protects against...

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Three bats cling to the rock ceiling in Clearwater Cave. Mulu, 1989.
February 3, 2013

Daily Photo – Clearwater Cave Bats

Quite why these three bats chose this spot I've no idea. But apparently, every evening they'd head out to feast in the jungle and...

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Another look back to the entrance of Clearwater Cave from deeper inside. Mulu, 1989.
February 2, 2013

Daily Photo – Deeper into Clearwater Cave

In the photo below we'd progressed further into the cave and were about to lose sight of the mighty entrance we'd passed through. You...

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Inside Clearwater Cave, Mulu, looking back to the entrance. The material is the foreground is a heaving pile of bat and swiftlet guano! Mulu, 1989.
February 1, 2013

Daily Photo – Inside Clearwater Cave

It was here that I made a mistake I was to repeat several times in the caves - I stepped off the path. The...

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