29th December, 2016: Job Done
After we made it into Tayan, we decided to leave our beloved vessel in favour of yomping the final 120k/130k to avoid negotiating the tides in the Kapuas delta, that and the salt water crocodile population was dramatically increasing the farther downstream we got. By this point we had yomped through the heart of Borneo, and travelled nearly 600 [...]
Christmas Day: Down the Sungi we go!
With food in our stomachs and the jungle nightmares behind us we set about our next move. Our aim was to buy a boat and utilise the huge rivers of Western Kalimantan, the Sungai Melawi and the Sungai Kapuas that flow down to Pontianak and out to the South China Sea. We set about the normal routine, Ant went [...]
21 Dec, 2016 – Alone in the Jungle . . .
Alone in the jungle, our morale at its lowest ebb since we embarked on our journey we were faced with a brutal choice. Crack on into one of the last unexplored corners of the planet, knowing we were too short on food to cover the ground, or admit defeat and call it a day. The seriousness of our situation cannot [...]
18 Dec, 2016 – A bridge too far . . .
After a fair well coffee with the legend Misrandi and his team it was once again back to the Ex5 duo. We had our sights firmly set on getting to Timbanganio. A place that had been pivotal in our planning, what we thought to be the last settlement before the heart of Borneo, a vast, rugged area of dense [...]
01 Dec, 2016 – Through the back way . . .
Blog entry number 4. Date: 1st December 2016. Through the back way.... A while had passed since we last had the opportunity to send back a blog, and the adventure is well and truly underway! We have been following the route of a road we believed to penetrate into the heart of Borneo, that came to an abrupt and morale [...]
23 Nov, 2016 – Location: Muarahlawa > Sore feet . . . and the first white faces!
Location: Muarahlawa Its been seven days since we started this expedition, after leaving behind the large built up areas on the east coast it immediately became apparent that the mapping we have is both out of date and extremely inaccurate. On one occasion following a track out of a village we hit a dead end consisting of a large [...]