The Batang Ai National Park jetty, the only was to go to either the longhouse, the Park HQ, or the mountains nearby is by boat.
A group photo at the Batang Ai Dam. this dam was completed in 1985
Sun Halo on our hiking day to Bukit Sium, Batang Ai National Park.
Clinic inside the Batang Ai National Park conservation area
A part of our journey was being blocked by logs many rotten logs, and we have to slowly push away the logs to navigate our way over.
Upon reaching the upriver area, rapid current can be seen, and some swirls also.
Along the trail up the Bukit Sium, we saw some branches are carefully place on the ground, but we are not sure what is it use for.
Many mushroom grows on the tree trunk
Very small spiders a lot of them
Huge mushroom which is bigger than my 5" smart phone
Iban burial ground. The burial jars has names being carve on the wood respectively. Mambang Dauk (who die in 1951), Merayang Matu (in 1950), and Malong Dauk (in 1947).
We manage to reach the summit with about 4 hours, at 710 m ASL. Next to us is one of the Iban burial jar. As advice by our local guide we did not camp at the burial site, but descent a few meter down for camp in order to pay respect to the dead.
Its very heavy to carry our hammock, and water. So we have limited water to use, we carefully calculate the water that we can use for cooking, drinking, and for descend the next day.
We are all Hennessy Hammock users, the expedition edition!
The day when we ascent to the mountain, it was a hot day, and the waterfall has not much water.
The day we descent back to the base again, and heavy downpour the whole day, water starts to flow to the Ai river (Batang Ai)
The small waterfall on the base of the mountain
Stop by at the Park HQ to take a group photo with the signboard.
About Bukit Sium Ukap
715 Meter Above Sea Level
Highest Mount in Batang Ai National Park
The staring hike is a steep climb on the sium ridge, and then continues along the undulating ridge through good forest for a further few kilometer then to a high point of the ridge, Bukit Ngalan kempas. Then lastly to the highest point of Bukit Sium Ukap. Several steep hills in the area are called Bukit Sium and the exct name of this particular hill is Bukit Sium Ukap. Sium in Iban word means to sniff. At the summit there is a old survey beacon ground being cleared long time ago, and is now being taken back by nature, therefore not much view can be seen on the summit.
The red line is our trail, its about 45.4km from the Jetty to the Longhouse and to Bukit Sium trail head.
Its only about 715m high, the hard part is our heavy backpack about 15kg each. With our standard gear, hammock, water, food, and clothes.
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