Gunung Mulu National Park near Miri, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that encompasses incredible caves and karst formations in a mountainous equatorial rainforest setting. The park is famous for its caves and the expeditions that have been mounted to explore them and their surrounding rainforest, most notably the Royal Geographic Expedition of 1977 - 1978, which saw over...
Thursday, 27 March 2008
Sibu
Sibu is a town, and the capital of Sibu District (2,229.8 square kilometers) in Sibu Division, Sarawak, east Malaysia. It is located at the confluence of the Rajang and Igan Rivers, some 60 kilometers from the ocean. The population is dominated by Chinese especially the Fuzhou as well as indigenous Melanau, Malay, and Iban. The district population (per year 2002 census) is 228,700.There has been a...
Thursday, 13 March 2008
Retro Pictures of Borneo Natives
Shown here are some pictures of retro Borneo natives people,from sea dayak,kayan,penan.. Kayan houses fortified against an attack Stages in the manufacture of Sea Dyak cloth. Spinning the thread ...
The great peace making at marudi
Group portrait showing chiefs sitting on a raised dais between wooden carved images, with tribesmen in the background. The two central figures are Tama Bulan and Tama Kulieng. 'The great peace-making at Marudi, 1899, Baram District, between the Kayan, Kenyah, and Klemantan Tribes of East and West Borneo'....
