We still can’t believe that we actually in Borneo, it’s one of those places you hear of and see so many times on the tv that you never think that you will actually visit, we’re both a bit awestruck by the place it really is quite something. Enough waffle here’s some pics of the 4 hour boat journey.
At one stage we noticed a man fiddling with his boxes, eventually he pulls out a cockerel and starts showing it to another man, who pokes it about a bit, then puts it back and pulls out another one from another box, after quite some time he purchases one, we later realise that they were fighting birds which would explain the 120rm he paid for it.
Here’s a photo of the goings on I’m not sure if it’s legal to be photographing another mans cockerel or indeed whether he should have even got it out on the boat in public but here goes.
As we work our way upstream we notice more and more logging boats and sawmills until they completely take over being the only industry on the river.
After a few stops we arrive in Sibu,
not very touristy just a stop-off point on the river and a trading post with a very colourful market.
Selling more cockerels this time wrapped in newspaper with a handy carrying handle made out of string, only 10rm each.
The view of the river from our hotel window is superb.
And when people say where they were when William and Kate got married we can say we were on the banks of the Rejang river in Borneo.
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