Telang Usan

Are you ready for Baram regatta 2011?

2011-09-02T19:04:00.005+09:00

The next Baram regatta will be hold at Marudi from Sep 30th to Oct 2nd.

Making a new boat for the reggata (Aug 2011)

Marudi, March 2011

2011-03-21T01:09:00.016+09:00

In these days, I visited Marudi to meet an old friend.

The Miri-Marudi road was opened a few years ago. The lands along the road has been converted in oil palm plantations at high speed.

The Baram river, near Marudi.

Now is a harvesting season.

We went an oxbow lake near Marudi to find fishes.

An oil palm plantation is already opened 1km far from the lakeside.

Now is a rubber boom also.

A new business, swiftlet farming. They just started to try.

Harvesting season

2010-02-03T23:44:00.005+09:00

I shortly visited Ulu Baram in these days.

Now is the end of harvesting ("majau") season of hill padi in this area.

Jan. 2010

A place for tourists

2009-11-21T12:37:00.027+09:00

I am thanks to so many people from Baram especially staying in KL or Kuching checking this blog. Some people commented me that they doubt the tourism potential of Telang Usan because there are no resorts and no tourism attractions .

These are photos when I visited Uncle Tan Wildlife Adventure (http://www.uncletan.com/index.html) near Kuala Lokan, Sg. Kinabatangan last time. Everyday 10-20 tourists mostly from West visit this camp from Sandakan, stay for two nights.

Do Telang Usan have no tourist attractions like here?

Their constructions are too hard to build for villagers along Telang Usan?

Jetty near Kuala Lokan. About 3 hours by car from Sandakan.

Even though the camp can be reached directly by car, using boat is more attractive.

Their "camp" along Sg Kinabatangan. Only 15 minutes from the jetty. The land is borrowed from Kg Kuala Lokan.

The restaurant.

"Lodge"

The staffs bring the visitors to see the "wildlife".

Because hunting is inhibited by Kg Kuala Lokan, there are so many kara along the Sg Lokan.

We could also see Proboscis monkey, Orangutan, Common Palm Civet.

Trekking in a swamp forest near the camp. We saw a snake.

Night trekking near the camp. Tourists are very interested to see frogs.

The location of the camp is not ideal place. The forest is small, surrounded by oil palm plantation.

Tourists also can enjoy fishing.

That's true. The frogs were so diverse and cute, can be tourism attractions.

Proposed Baram Dam 3

2009-10-19T16:04:00.009+09:00

Detail map near Long Na'ah and Long San

Blue: Submerged area by dam

Red: Grassland and other secondary growth in the landuse map 1968 (=NCR)

http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/esdb_archive/EuDASM/Asia/lists/k7_all.htm

Anybody can use this map also.

I myself do not know the dam is "a blessing from God" or "a curse from Hell".

http://www.malaysianmirror.com/homedetail/45-home/12112-dams-a-curse-from-hell-say-orang-ulu

Proposed Baram Dam 2

2009-10-19T00:59:00.018+09:00

Because I could not find any detail map about the proposed Baram hydroelectric dam, I made by myself using ArcGIS and Google Earth.

The location of dam site was referred to http://news.mongabay.com/2009/0903-moses_sarawak_dams.html

The water level was set at 178 a.s.l. referred to http://dayaknation.com/blog/?p=2460

All the villages from Lg Na'ah to Lg Bela'ong will be submerged under the dam. For example, the present place of Lg San will be 100m under the water surface.

Anybody can use this map. But please understand this map is not formal one.

There may be a little more villages in the effected are. For example, I do not know well inside Sg Patah and Sg Akah.

http://www.borneoproject.org/img/original/Dam%20map%20Aug%202009.jpg

Memo

2009-08-24T18:02:00.003+09:00

One of my freinds told me some interesting activities in Baram by foreigners.

http://www.medicforce.org/emedic.html

http://www.picnicwiththepenan.com/

For honor's sake of Sarawak state government, they build many government clinics around the Baram and the cost is quite cheap. But the equipments are sometimes not enough, they have to use car or helicopter to bring the urgent patients.

Several years ago, I also met Rotary Club of Miri doing same kind of voluntary activity at Bario.

Baram River Cruises

2009-05-16T04:04:00.009+09:00

I found some news about River Cruises started in Rajang, the largest river in Sarawak, in this year and other people are interested to start in Baram also.

http://www.pandaw.com/borneo-c-118.html

http://www.theborneopost.com/?p=50245

These news sounds good.

The Baram river has great tourism potential as the Rajang river.

For example, from Kuala Baram to Long Lama or Long Terawan.

There are many great longhouses such as,

Kuala Tutoh http://telangusan.blogspot.com/2007/08/kuala-tutoh-lower-baram.html

Long Ikang http://telangusan.blogspot.com/2007/08/long-ikan-lower-baram.html

Long Banyoh http://telangusan.blogspot.com/2007/08/long-banyoh-lower-baram.html

Long Palai http://telangusan.blogspot.com/2007/08/long-panai-lower-tutoh.html

Long Terawan http://telangusan.blogspot.com/2007/08/long-terawan-lower-tutoh.html

From the end points, tourists can move to Mulu.

I believe this business can contribute local economy and support to keep the beauty of the Lower Baram.

Express Ferry

2009-05-15T20:56:00.009+09:00

Dec/2002, Long Ikang (Long Lama -> Marudi)

There are public ferries, "Express" in Lower Baram

http://telangusan.blogspot.com/2007/08/trafic-network-of-baram.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7jmjpmEno0&hl=ja

Kuala Baram -> Marudi (RM20)

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Marudi -> Kuala Baram (2h30m/RM20)

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There are taxis from Kuala Baram -> Miri

Marudi -> Long Lama (RM20)

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There are transport from Long Lama to Lapok, Miri and Long Bedian

Long Lama -> Marudi (2h30m/RM20)

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