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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
