Of course the reason I came to Brunei was not to admire the mosques but to head into some more primary rainforest of Temburong.
The speed boat ride in was amazing, carving through narrow ribbons of the brown Sungsai Brunei to Bangar and from there a short drive to Ulu Temburong National Park.
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| Geko at night |
I was staying in a tent on the waters edge with a night walk first on the agenda. This was cut short slightly by a run for the shelter of the longhouse as the heavens opened, but not before there was time to spot a few stick insects and gekos.
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| Observation tower |
Inside the rainforest and having climbed 1,000 steps there was an observation tower reached by climbing scaffolding.
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| Ulu Temburong NP |
We also visited a waterfall which included a free foot spa with the fish ticking your feet as they eat the dead skin - people pay good money for this!
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| Feeding the fish |
2013 started with a jungle trek in secondary rainforest, myself, the village head, a guide to translate, a trainee guide (her younger sister) and a 'protector' - the guy with the parang. It's incredible that if I'd done the walk on my own I'd have stopped a couple of times to take photos of insects & the foliage but here every couple of minutes we were stopping to learn about the medicinal properties of a plant, eat a fruit or make a hat from a leaf.
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| tree vine in the rainforest |
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