Danum Valley Canopy Walk

Danum Valley Canopy Hike

07-Jul-00


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The Danum Valley Lodge (located in deepest, darkest, Borneo) is an independently owned conservation area in Sabah - it is the singularly most spectacular place to view wildlife on Borneo - but costs an arm and a leg. It is believed that the forest here has never been logged ever. Not even in prehistoric times. It is one of the last primeval places on earth.

Rolled truck

This guy tried to cross a bridge that was out

Bridge out!

SGK

Welcome to the canopy walkway

The canopy walkway was a series of suspension bridges from tree to tree up in the crown of the forest. The idea was to let you see the different biosphere in the canopy of the forest.

Going up

On the bridge

The longer the bridge, the more likely it was to twist under you as you walked across it (something that we would later remember as we crossed bottomless gorges in Nepal)

What happened to my hair??

Even bald guys get dates

This is my classic "Big Boss" look - the shaved head and goatee on a big white guy caused most Asian's to confuse me with a WWF star called "Big Boss"

Lizard

It reminds me of one that my pledge brother Todd Stately had at the TKE house

Bearded pig

These pig pictures earned a spot in a scientific journal called "Suiform Soundings" - the first time I have ever been published in a scientific journal.

Leach bite!

Looks like I needed to purchase some "Stoking pachats". Literally "leach stockings" in Bahasa, they are special canvas gaiters used to prevent the blood suckers from getting you.