Hi,
I’m Bima Prasena, a traveler who recently made an adventure to our most remote district in North Kalimantan (Borneo Island) called Krayan Highland.
Not an easy task to get there, since there are no road connected to this place from nearest city in North Kalimantan. We must fly by small airplane from Nunukan which is nearly 100 km from small airport of Long Bawan, Krayan Highland. Yet, it is only 10 km away from Malaysia, which you can drive with a 4-wheeled car there, sad but true! So, if you look at the few km aspalt of small city of Long Bawan, you will only see Malaysian plate cars everywhere.
This place is so special, here is why:
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It is a border pass between Indonesia-Malaysia
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Rich of war histories, both traditional war and post-Indonesia Independence war. You can still witness a lot of bomb-crater in an grassy airfields in some village.
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Dayak Lundayeh is the biggest and oldest Dayak tribe to dwell this area, connected to Brunei Darussalam which believed that the Sultan was from this highland.
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The nature represent old Borneo as the tip of Asia Peninsula in ancient time. Old mountains and big trees everywhere.
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Connection of the man (Dayak) to the nature has going for hundreds of years and mutual, they do not use chemical fertilizer for agriculture, that is why their traditional food are organic, healthy and demanded by surrounding neighbour countries (Malaysia & Brunei)
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TO MUCH MORE THAT I Can’t share here but maybe these video might help
Yet, this place seems like it was unconnected to the world due its limited resources on internet connectivity.
Last year despite those challenges I try to put a lot of places, mostly the great points for tourism in Krayan Highland into Google Maps. I tried from only 2 possible points of internet connectivity in the whole area, but the connection not that good, but I did eventually.
I believe that more people know this place, more chances we have to preserve this great old place.
