“It’s all Kelabit food. A new cuisine to me and have no idea what to expect. I believe we can’t get Kelabit cuisine outside of the highlands.”
Category Archives: Bario Blog Links
This is a category collection of blogs by travellers from all round the world, and their experiences in Bario and the Kelabit Highland.
If you’ve been to Bario, and if you have a blog about it, do let us know.
Bario, The Kelabit Highlands That Time Forgot
Backpacking Sarawak: Bario, The Kelabit Highlands That Time Forgot
“These moments have become increasingly rare and fleeting, because of my connectedness with technology. The messages are broken up between this “world” and the next where I am always connected, always interjected, always distracted, always inundated with information and requests… and I struggle to find meaning behind it all, but nothing seems to make sense. I’ve always believed that even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence; it’d been a good decision to come back to Bario. Aunty Bulan’s lips curve into a smile, “This place does that to people… even to us who’ve lived here all our lives,”
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Backpacking Sarawak: Bario, The Kelabit Highlands That Time Forgot
Bario and The Edible Jungle
“Here in the Kelabit Highlands of Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, villagers are not just farmers, not just hunter-gatherers. It’s not an either/or. The people do it all. They hunt, fish and forage for their food. They grow rice by hand, in verdant plots fed by mountain waters.”
Back to Borneo, and an Eden at Risk
Back to Borneo, and an Eden at Risk
“We peered across thick stands of trees where Walter had taken us foraging for edible palms and rattans, and bamboos with liquid inside. He said he could live in that forest on the food and drink it provided. It had, after all, sustained centuries of people before him. “That’s why we need to keep our jungle,” he said.”
I WANTED RUGGED. I THINK I FOUND IT IN THE KELABIT HIGHLANDS.
I WANTED RUGGED. I THINK I FOUND IT IN THE KELABIT HIGHLANDS.
“Turns out, it’s actually a bit of an effort to find rugged in Borneo (particularly in the Malaysian bit which is where I am). My first trek into the jungle, though beautiful, was quite commercial and felt a lot like glamping.”
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I Wanted Rugged. I Think I Found It In The Kelabit Highlands (Part 1)
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I Wanted Rugged. I Think I Found It In The Kelabit Highlands (Part 2)