Category: Malaysia

Of Canopies and Caves

Of Canopies and Caves

This is the view down over the lower storey of the rainforest canopy, in Mulu National Park, Sarawak, from the longest canopy skywalk in the...

From Hunter-Gatherers to Human Zoo

From Hunter-Gatherers to Human Zoo

Leaving Mulu National Park on a little propeller plane, with rivers unspieling below us, a scattered handful of logging tracks carving their way across the...

Three Million Bats

Three Million Bats

Deer Cave, at Mulu National Park, Borneo, is one of the largest cave chambers in the world, and home to as many as three million...

Fighting Cocks and Jungle Ferns

Fighting Cocks and Jungle Ferns

We took three boats to Gunung Mulu, the serene and beautiful national park deep in the forests of Sarawak, with ancient caves carved deep into...

The Coolest Fairground Worker Ever?

The Coolest Fairground Worker Ever?

Of all the places in which to find a “UK Funfair”, complete with British registration plates on the lorries, Bintulu, Sarawak, would come pretty low...

The Big Race

The Big Race

Watching two women’s eights, one women’s sixteen, and a mighty war canoe paddled by thirty-two men powering their way up the Balui River in the...

The Vanishing Forest

The Vanishing Forest

Some things, simply, look too big, too plentiful to ever be used up. The herds of bison that clouded the American plains; the trees of...

The City Slicker

The City Slicker

Asun and Mimi sit in a cafe off the waterfront in Belaga, a town of 2500 souls and the major trading hub of great swathes...

Women of the Woods

Women of the Woods

The Malay name orang utan means “man of the forest”, and, after a visit to the Semanggoh Orang Utan Centre, it’s easy to see why....