Borneo Bash
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Trip Highlights
• Volunteering alongside a longhouse community
• Hike up Mt Kinabalu (optional)
• Mulu National Park and the largest cave system in the world
• Longboat rides
• Pinnacles of Mt Api (optional climb)
• The infamous Headhunter trail
• Longhouse stay
• Colonial Kuching
• Orang Utan rehabilitation centre
Your "Taste of Volunteering" Project
Repairs and renovations of a school or longhouse or collecting and categorising medicinal plants (depending on the needs at the time of your trip).
Trip Summary
This trip starts in Kota Kinabalu the Northern state of Sabah, where you spend your first day at leisure.
The following day, we head to Mt Kinabalu National Park where we explore the park and visit the botanical gardens. The park headquarters offer spectacular views of surrounding mountains and a botanical garden and walking tracks.
The next day, you can chose to stay at base camp and go on local short bird watching walks, or hike to the first hut at 1,558m or take part in the total climb of Mt Kinabalu.
On Day 4, aftyer an exciting climb to the summit in time for sunrise, we walk back downhill to the park headquarters and to Miri in Sarawak.
The following day, you have a free day to explore Miri.
We transfer to the airport for our flight to Mulu National Park the next day.
On Day 7, we have a restful morning to explore the park. In the afternoon, we visit the Deer and Lang Caves, which is a 3-km comfortable plank walk to the caves. After visiting the caves those who wish may wait for the bat exodus from the observation point outside the cave and return to the cabin late evening.
The following day, we depart by longboat, visit the Penan settlement, Long Aman, where the semi nomadic Penan display and sell their unique crafts. We continue to the Cave of the Winds and the Clearwater Cave where we have a picnic lunch and swim before proceeding to Kuala Lutut (or Berar depending on the water level). We then do a three hour flat trek to our camp.
The next day, there is an option for those who wish to climb the Pinnacles of Mount Api. Those who prefer can spend the day resting and enjoying the magnificent Melinau gorge, bird and wildlife watching.
On Day 10, we depart for a four hour flat trek to the river and our longboat pickup. We continue by longboat to Menatwai at the edge of the park and continue down the Head Hunter’s trail. Your volunteering takes place here starting on Day 10 when you make it to the village and until Day 13. Your activities will vary depending on the needs of the community at the time, but can include repairs and renovations of a school or longhouse or collecting and categorising medicinal plants.
On Day 14, we continue by longboat to Medamit Jetty and by road to Limbang airport for our flight to Kuching. In Kuching, your guide takes you on a walking orientation of the Riverside promenade, China Town and the merchant shops nearby.
The following day, we transfer to the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre in time for the morning feeding. This centre works in the return of orang utan to the wild. In the afternoon, we have a city tour of this most British of Asian Cities.
On your final day, we transfer you to the airport for your outbound flight.
Note: Accommodation is in 4* hotels in Kota Kinabalu, Miri and Kuching (5 nights), National Park ensuite chalets (2 nights), and a simple jungle bunk camp (4 nights) and longhouse with foam mats on the floor (4 nights) during volunteering.
For a full trip description in PDF format, click here (you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader).
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