I first came to Mulu in 2010 and I was so amazed by the caves. Mulu is probably the only place in Malaysia that fascinates me more than Mount Kinabalu and both of them are on the UNESCO Sites list. Mount Kinabalu for me is too showy. It stands tall for everybody to see. Mulu on the other hand prefers to stay humble and mysterious, and it requires people to go underground to explore what it has to offer. I…
So, I went to Bario recently. It has always been in my bucketlist for so long. I mean, I’ve always wanted to go there ever since I was still at the university when I first heard about a highland area near the Indonesian border on the Kalimantan side – about its high quality rice and pine apples and the Kelabit people with their unique cultures and traditions. When my job required me to return to Kapit for a few days…
I first heard about a place called Belaga in Sarawak when I was still at the university. I happened to have quite a number of friends from Sarawak and some of them were from this little town in the far corner of the biggest state in Malaysia. I’d listen to them talking about their life, particularly while they were at a boarding school called SMK Belaga where they met up with other students that hailed from all corners of this very…