My Expedition Trip To Gunung Mulu National Park (Day 1)

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It was a fresh midnight of 19th March 2010. We departed from school to LCCT for our flight check-in. It was a double flight from LCCT to Miri Airport and from Miri Airport to Mulu Airport.

the team have safely landed!! Woohoo!!

entrance into the check-in counter.. pretty...

Mulu Airport is a well tradition-preserved place to be. Mostly everything there are hand crafted, including the eaves and entrance gate!

hand crafted eaves... a true masterpiece...

There we meet our tour guides for the whole expedition trip, Richardson and Rizal. They transfer us to our first two nights accommodation, Benarat Lodge located along Sungai Pala (Pala River). After we've settled the luggage, we've changed into shorts and hiked Sungai Pala Hill for a sunset view of the mountains and terrains we will conquer in the next 5 days.

it's just an easy 15 minutes walk from Benarat Lodge to the hill top...

did I mentioned that we are also a bunch of silly monkeys? Haha!!

nothing like a warm sunset to kick start the expedition..

The walk back to Benarat Lodge was a race against the rain. Richard gave us some preparation briefing after dinner that night and we're asked to be in bed by 11pm because the power system there will be cut off at 12am sharp.



by Maqueradez... 14th May 2010...