This is Meg and it's my first blogging attempt. There's nothing like a few adventures to shake the travel homesickness out of me. We have had a couple of amazing days.
Yesterday we went to an oragutan rehab wildlife center where they live in a protected wild area and saw four Orangutans. They are amazing-- the way they swing through the tree tops. And then we went Kayaking through gorgeous rainforest. It rained and rained and rained so hard for the last two hours on the river, but it was beautiful and warm. We swam in waterfalls, kayaked under fresh rain water running over rock ledges into the river, saw all kinds of flora and fuana, and mountains in steamy mist from the cool rain hitting the hot forest. At one point Emily with big eyes said "This is the best day of my life!" I have to put it in the top ten as well. ;-)
Then today the wonderful owner of the guest house we are staying at in Kuching (Fairview guest house) drove us out to see some caves. The aptly named Fairy Cave defies explanation. It is entirely other worldly-- light streaming in feeding ferns and rhododendron-looking plants growing on the rocks, highlighting the staglamites and diamond shiney drops of water streaming in. It's an enormous cavern-- time and space change perspective while in there. The air hangs thick and cool and impossibly still. Looking across the cave Em looked entirely too small for how close she was. I had vertigo several times climbing up the steps or looking up at the rounded, twisting rock formations hanging from the top. The air is mystical-- one can imagine fairies or hobbits actually live there. It is out of an animation type movie like Lord of the Rings. And we were the ONLY people there! It is maintainted (we are not about to go spulunking!)-- there were flights and flights of wet slimy cement steps, and evidence of incense offerings made by the locals. There is myth that it is home to a fairy that makes wishes come true, started by a woman who prayed to there for a baby and then got pregnant. I got a few pictures, but my battery died once we got into the main part. Which actually fit how unimaginable the place is-- you can't capture it in words or pictures. Em said it perfectly once we emerged back from the cave: "A place like this rearranges your insides."
We have just seen a tiny speck of Borneo-- and all of it very accesable, and it is amazing. This line keeps popping into my head after seeing yet another amazing sight here: The Gods really cut loose in Borneo.
I feel so lucky to be able to see even this small part of it.
This is Emily, Meg did the best we could at describing this place, to be in Borneo for me is to repeat a few times a day "i've never seen anything like that!" Accentuated by the evening prayer floating down the river from the mosques at sunset, and the warmth of the locals, this is a real treat.
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