With the sun continuing to descend in the west, I headed back to Laban Rata.
Most of the other hikers were in the resthouse but a few of us hung around outside to watch the sun go down. Today's photo was a view south, over the top of the Park HQ and deeper into Borneo.
I've always found standing on firm ground and looking down on the tops of clouds to be kind of weird. Expected from within an aircraft but weird from terra firma.
The last rays of the sun are picking out the branches of the trees in the foreground while a haze develops over the hills and valleys of the interior of Borneo. In the middle ground it looks as though the air currents are bending the clouds to the shape of the hills and valleys and there's just a hint of green remaining on the west facing hillsides that are still catching the rays from the sun. I recall it was breezy and chilly, standing out there on the mountainside but I found the scene so spectacular and, knowing I'd likely never return, I wanted to savor the experience.
Over the next several days I'll post some of the sunset shots I captured from Laban Rata. My next stop was going to be Hong Kong so I had no worries about having to conserve film. What a difference technology makes. I currently use a 32 Gb card in my 5D Mark II that captures over 1,000 images or the equivalent of over 28 rolls of film!
