While in Sarawak we have Batang Kayan river in Lundu, in North Kalimantan they have their own Kayan river too. North Kalimantan borders the Malaysian states of Sabah to the north and Sarawak to the west, and by the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan to the south. Although they both flow on the same island […]
Long time ago, the Egyptian pyramids were built as tombs for the country’s Pharaohs and their consorts. Here in the central region of Borneo in the Krayan Highlands, the ancient Lundayeh community built perupun to bury their dead. Both ancient burial tombs have one thing in common, nobody really knows how exactly they were built. […]
The Lundayeh people of Indonesia had the same reasons to build crocodile mounds or effigies like the Lun Bawang people in Sarawak; to celebrate successful headhunting trips. In the olden days, it was considered a great achievement for a man to take an enemy’s head. Upon returning home, they would raise a pole (called ulung) […]
When it comes to picking the most ‘health-giving’ mountain salt for your clean diet, forget about Himalayan pink salt. Here in Borneo, we have our very own salt from the central region of the island. While on Sarawak the side of the Bornean border, salt springs are aplenty in the Kelabit Highlands, Kalimantan’s are located […]
