Heavy traffic on Bario's main street
Rice paddies adn the power cables from the failed Hydro scheme
Running through the paddie fields
We rest our feet as our Host prepares dinner
Emily and Sebexamine the coffee choices. Both preferred speaking in French, which was a boon for me.
The next village from Bario where we stayed the night
Guard dog
Local Ronaldinho challenged us.
Zidane he was not
Listening to the Radio, We first spotted marvin walking across the field listening to Linkin Park on his radio. The fly was his jungle substitute
Migrant workers, all women, from Kalimantan, Indonesia, harvest the famous Bario rice in the lashing rain
Harvesting the rice
The end of one of Bario's Longhouses
Poison Darts used by the semi-Nomadic Penan Tribe. The lady seemed happy that I was so interested. She said she makes the poison from the latex tree sap, puts it on one end, and a cork on the other to make it fit the pipes gauge. I asked how strong the poison was, could it knock out a human? “5 minutes” she indicated. “5 minutes and you loose conciousness?” “No, 5 minutes adn your dead.” I decided not to touch the end.
Penan woman with one of her families blowpipes
Weaving a ratan backpack. She said it was about a weeks work so far. The woman on the right was four months pregnant with her first child.
A private 2kw micro-hydor generator. There was supposed to be a 100kw generator powering the whole town, but someone messed up. The flow to the larger generator was greater than that refilling the dam. After 45 minutes the dam's water level dropped below the pipe's entrance, and the system failed. The town's people were upset, to say the least
petrus leads the way to his village, first day of the trek to Indonesia
Bamboo garden
At the top of the hill in Petrus's village.
Megalithic tombs dot the landscape around the Kelabit (People's name) village
The House of Petrus
Stephen making dinner in the jungle shelter. He was guiding Rokiah and Chalres whom we met in the forest
Candle lit discussions
By my “bed”
Petrus and I at the Indonesian Border
Jungle softdrinks. Drinking water from the bamboo layers.
A church in Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo
Petrus crossing one of our many state of the art bridges
“Welcome to Indonesia”
crossing back over the border
The proper demarcation line
Waiting for a plane that could arrive any time that week. Note the low cloud cover
Twin Otter, ready for take off
Flying over Bario, long house below
The Bario school welcomes ITTO
One of the Teachers in traditional Kelabit dress with the Japanese attache to ITTO, at the opening of the school's new building
Bario ladies perform the Kelabit group dance for ITTO
ITTO and locals at the official opening of one of their good will projects, a fish farm
Flying back to Miri from Bario with ITTO and a local woman
