| Kids getting ferried across the river after school. |
| Sunset through the mangroves at Bako National Park. |
| Sunset over the South China Sea. |
| View out of the Twin Otter on the way to Bario. |
| A picture of our camp in the jungle. Andrew (on the left with the american flag bandana) is stoking the fire and Timo is on the right making us bamboo spoons. There's a large river about fifteen feet behind the camp but you could never tell from this picture. |
| A couple days after the trek we were at Timo's house sitting around playing music. Timo was finishing up a couple blowpipes that he was giving to us. Unfortunately we lost them a few days later - ugh! But that just gives me another reason to go back someday. |
| Jenn giving the thumbs up with Andrew and Timo. |
| Perry, Andrew and Timo showing off the soon to be lost blowpipes. |
| Later that night they invited us to play music at church. Little did I know they were going to put me in the church band with no clue of what the hell was going on. This picture is from the end of the evening when they raise money for the church. What you do is you offer up a few ringitt to sponsor someone to go up and sing or dance or something. We don't have any pictures of us up there singing "Monkey and the Engineer" which was the only non-religous song of the evening! ;) |
| This is the only road through Bario. Everything is pretty spread out as it usually is in farm country. . |
| This is a longhouse. Many generations of one family all live under the same roof with separate sleeping and eating quarters - well seperate in the sense that they each have their own but there are no walls between the various kitchens. There are walls between the bedrooms. |
| This is the inside of the longhouse we stayed in on the last night. This is the central corrider where they will hold big functions like weddings. You can see pictures hanging on the left wall. These are the immediate members of the family of that section of the longhouse. |
| This is the kitchen side of the longhouse we stayed in. You can see the wood pile on the shelf and the fire pit used for cooking. Traditionally there are no chimneys, so the smoke just kind of finds its way out through the roof. This has a positive effect on the wood structure of the house because it basically preserves all the wood - it actually looks like it's been varnished. |
| A rice padi with the natural, organic, fertilizing machine at work. |
| A couple kids we saw. They spoke perfect English so we asked if we could take their picture. The boy immediately stood up straight and posed, the girl was more interested in chewing on a plastic bag. |