Situated at the far end of the Borneo island (left), its the smallest and the most beautiful national park in Sarawak. I visited this national park on year 2015, you can read the story here.  

My packing list for this trip

We depart from Sematan long jetty at about 6am, our boatman is waiting for us there early morning. Very reliable and punctual guy.

It took us about 40 mins of boat ride to reach the HQ of Tanjung Datu national park. Our speedboat have duo engine, it can cruise very fast.

The starting point will be the Belian Trail, as this trail will lead us all the way up to Mount Melano (542m ASL). 

There is a wide and flat space near the peak, suspect this might be a resting point for the park ranger. 

Border stones can be found along the mountain range to indicate that we are at the border. 

Reached the peak of Mount Melano, and one big border stone there. 

So far I'm quite satisfy with this trail, it has very clear trail marks, and trail is well maintain. Not much falling branch blocking the way. And every now and then, we are welcome with stunning scenic view of our neighboring country, Kalimantan, Indonesia. 

There is a trail road on Kalimatan side, its looks very easy to trek on, so we decided to go over and use that trail. 

This is the road used by the soliders of Kalimantan for patrolling the border. 

I estimate its about 1km long, how I wsh it will lead strait to the lighthouse, but no. Eventually, we still need to go back to our jungle trail. 

There are two peak within the mountain range, which is Mount Melano (567m ASL) and Mount Batu Datu (540m ASL), after that its just a slow descending slope going all the way to the tip of Borneo. So the trail is relaxing and fun to hike. 

Also there are many of these huge rocks along the range, some of them are stack together, and form a shelter in between. Its a good place to camp, the downside is no water source available. 

And I counted there are around 15 border stone along the range. Saw one of this signboard with some wording on it. Not so sure what it means, but when you see this, you are very close to the lighthouse of both Sarawak, and Indonesia.

We visited both Sarawak and Kalimatan lighthouse, the lighthohuse at Sarawak is smaller and no  lighthouse keeper. Where at Kalimantan side, its very big and there are 3 lighthouse keepers. They are all very friendly, they invited us to take a rest there, offer us drink, and let us visit the lighthouse.

This is the lighthouse for Sarawak. 

A birdeyes view of the lighthouse for Sarawak and Kalimatan, the tall one belongs to Kalimantan, where the short one belongs to Sarawak. And the mountain range that we had trek so far, all the way from the park HQ.

We continue with our journey to the tip of Borneo. No proper trail after the lighthouse, dense vegetation, better watch out here because there are many plants with thorns.

We finally made it to the very tip of Borneo, check out the bird eyes view bellow. The stone with border marking on it (white box)

Can you recognize which rock it is with the border marking on it?

The tip of Borneo (refer to the first image in this post)

One interesting its this rock, I believe its must have been very long time here, and that its been carve by nature, and turn into a smooth round ball shape rock. 

The sunset view on the tip of Borneo

We camp at a small beach called pantai Pasir Berumput, the beach there are all made up by broken shells mix with rough sand. There is a small creek just beside our campsite, so we use the water for drink, cook, and bath.

There is this triangle platform, my friend told me that this is use as a machine gun platform. The machine gun will be lock by bolt and nut to make it stable. 

8am, of we go on our journey back to the park HQ, our boatman will come pick us at 5pm.

My bagpack is a bit heavy for me, mainly because of my drone, hammock and water. Its a  challenging for me to jump from one rock to another, when land on the rock, my knee can feel the pressure. I will try my best not to injured myself.

I found it very difficult for me to go on the coastal, navigating between rocks with a heavy backpack its difficult. I then told my team leader that I will use the jungle trail to get to park HQ. So I started by own journey back, at first it was still smooth, but the vegetation get dense, very dense. 

Until I'm not sure how to move forward, so I check on my GPS, and decide to route to the coastal again. After I slowly move to the coastal, I saw my friends are there, slowly moving from rock to rock. 

Unfortunately one of my friend accidentally twisted her leg, her leg starts to get swollen, and unable to move forward. So she and another team member stay back, to wait for the boat to pick them after 5pm later. For the rest of us, continue on. 

Most of us had finish our drinking water, and no place for us to refill. Can I eat this fruit to stay hydrate?

The scene are beautiful, but challenging to navigate through.

Plastic waste being wash on shore. 

We almost reach pasir Antu Laut beach, just a few meter away. We encountered a problem, there was a beehive in front of us, and we already have two friends got stung by bees. I was at the back with 4 more person, plan to cross by going to the sea, but its too deep. In the end, I told my friends that lets just go for it, just let the bees stunk us. So 1, 2, 3.... off we go, and a ouch that hurts. 

After all the jumping from rock to rock, finally reach this place (pasir Antu Laut) after this its just smooth trail which nicely maintain by park ranger for us to trek back to the park HQ.

Reached the park HQ at about 4pm, and we still have an hour to rest and cleanup before the boat pickup.

After the boat pickup at 5pm, not to forget to pickup my friend who injured her leg, and another team member who volunteer to stay back and company her. 

Day 1 - 8am - 5pm, easy route, with scenic view and beautiful rocks formation along the trail.

Day 2 - 8am - 4pm, very painful to navigate from rock to rock with heavy backpack. Need to wear shoes with good grip. 

A panoramic view of the Tanjung Datu moutain range