EG's Travelogue

Bario "the land of a hundred handshakes" is a community of villages located on the Kelabit Highlands deep within Sarawak's interior, close to the Sarawak-Indonesia border. Bario is home of the Kelabit tribe and is known for its welcoming scenery, cool climate, and the hospitality of the local people. While remoteness gave Bario its beauty and pristine environment, it also made accessing the town very difficult as there are no proper, paved access roads to the town from the outside. The only road connecting Bario to the district capital, Miri, is a rugged logging trail which is navigable using a four-wheel drive vehicle only. The journey from Miri to Bario by 4WD can take anywhere between 10 and 30 hours depending on the weather and road conditions. Despite its remoteness and isolation from the outside world, Bario does have a small airport with regular scheduled commercial flights that bring both people and goods into or out of the town. This travelogue detai...

Sabah State Railway is a railway system in Sabah. The system runs 134 kilometres between Kota Kinabalu and Tenom and is currently the only railway system in the island of Borneo. Constructed in the late 19th/early 20th century to facilitate the transport of tobacco from the interior to the coast, the line once consisted of three lines (Jesselton - Beaufort, Beaufort - Melalap, Beaufort - Weston) covering a distance of 193 kilometres. Between the '60s and '70s, however, the system was shortened to its present day route between Tanjung Aru and Tenom. The railway line is operated by Sabah State Railway or Jabatan Keretapi Negeri Sabah  (JKNS), a statutory body under the purview of Sabah's Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure. At present, the system is split into two operating sectors: Tanjung Aru - Beaufort and Beaufort - Tenom with no through ticketing between the sectors. This split (of operating sectors) is necessary due to weight restrictions on the B...