Welcome To Borneo
It's a jungle out there! Borneo is one of Southeast Asia's
premier adventure-sports destinations, with a spectacular mix of jungle,
water and thrills that will amaze both nature lovers and adrenaline
junkies. If you like to experience a place by trekking it, climbing it,
crawling through it or floating on it, you'll love Borneo. Borneo boasts
some of the world's most species-rich equatorial rainforests - prime
patches are easily accessible from multi-ethnic cities with great food.
Borneo Ancient Rainforests
If you love tropical greenhouses and can't wait to be enveloped by the humid fecundity of a real equatorial Borneo rainforest, we will help you to fulfil your wildest dreams. The island's jungles conjure up remoteness and peril, bringing to mind impenetrable foliage and river trips into the heart of darkness. The vegetation changes just as radically as you sail through the mangroves along the South China Sea. Deforestation makes for depressing headlines, but significant areas of the Borneo rainforest among the most ancient ecosystems on earth, remain intact, protected by national parks and conservation projects whose viability depends in part on income from tourism.
Borneo Culture Riches
Borneo brings together an astonishing array of cultures, religions, languages and cuisines, and thanks to the age-old traditions of hospitality in the island communities, all these are easy to approach. The city of Sarawak has significant Chinese communities, while the picturesque coastal villages are populated mainly by Malay, but head inland and the dominant culture is indigenous. Borneo's Dayak groups stopped nabbing noggins long ago, but many other ancient customs and ceremonies live on in harmony with mod-cons in longhouse communities. There's no better way to experience a slice of the Dayak way of life than drop by for a visit which is easy to arrange with a local tour guide.
Borneo Orangutans
Watching Homo sapiens encounter orangutans for the first time is almost an entertaining as watching our shaggy jungle cousins stuff half a dozen bananas into their mouths, grab a coconut and scramble back up into the jungle canopy. Both primate encounters are twice-daily feature at Semenggoh Nature reserve near Kuching in Sarawak. It is one of the best places in the world to see semi-wild orangutans swing from tree to tree, dangle nonchalantly from vines and take care of their adorable and very curious infants. The term 'orangutan' literally means 'man of the wild', or 'jungle man', a testament to the local reverence for these great ginger apes. Traditionally, orangutans were never hunted like other creatures in the rainforest; in fact Borneo indigenous people used to worship their skulls in the same fashion as they did the heads taken from enemy tribes-men.
Borneo Ancient Rainforests
If you love tropical greenhouses and can't wait to be enveloped by the humid fecundity of a real equatorial Borneo rainforest, we will help you to fulfil your wildest dreams. The island's jungles conjure up remoteness and peril, bringing to mind impenetrable foliage and river trips into the heart of darkness. The vegetation changes just as radically as you sail through the mangroves along the South China Sea. Deforestation makes for depressing headlines, but significant areas of the Borneo rainforest among the most ancient ecosystems on earth, remain intact, protected by national parks and conservation projects whose viability depends in part on income from tourism.
Borneo Culture Riches
Borneo brings together an astonishing array of cultures, religions, languages and cuisines, and thanks to the age-old traditions of hospitality in the island communities, all these are easy to approach. The city of Sarawak has significant Chinese communities, while the picturesque coastal villages are populated mainly by Malay, but head inland and the dominant culture is indigenous. Borneo's Dayak groups stopped nabbing noggins long ago, but many other ancient customs and ceremonies live on in harmony with mod-cons in longhouse communities. There's no better way to experience a slice of the Dayak way of life than drop by for a visit which is easy to arrange with a local tour guide.
Borneo Orangutans
Watching Homo sapiens encounter orangutans for the first time is almost an entertaining as watching our shaggy jungle cousins stuff half a dozen bananas into their mouths, grab a coconut and scramble back up into the jungle canopy. Both primate encounters are twice-daily feature at Semenggoh Nature reserve near Kuching in Sarawak. It is one of the best places in the world to see semi-wild orangutans swing from tree to tree, dangle nonchalantly from vines and take care of their adorable and very curious infants. The term 'orangutan' literally means 'man of the wild', or 'jungle man', a testament to the local reverence for these great ginger apes. Traditionally, orangutans were never hunted like other creatures in the rainforest; in fact Borneo indigenous people used to worship their skulls in the same fashion as they did the heads taken from enemy tribes-men.
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