点评:Thanks to Tom and the AAB (Adventure Alternative Borneo) team, the Maliau Basin Trek was an experience of a lifetime ! Our guides Don and Chun made the experience extra special - they were so knowledgable and so lovely ! And the facilties were simple but comfortable - the cooks at each camp served us the most wholesome and delicious food. I was so worried about my fitness before the trek but with average fitness and despite the humid conditions, every day was full of wonder and amazement!
And Maliau Basin, pristine and protected, is simply a magical place. I don’t think our brains and eyes can conceive of the extent of biodiversity that one experiences in such a place! Every step you take, between tree roots and carpets of leaves, a zillion living organisms buzz and hum and just be. Frogs of a myriad colours and hues and some that sounded like birds, orchids hiding their grace amidst ferns and mosses of infinite kinds, cicadas that filled the forest with haunting sounds, fungi that infected giant forest ants and made them into “zombie ants” that did their bidding, climbed up and died at the edge of a leaf so that the fungus could disperse its spores, worms that secreted gastric juices to dissolve and consume a moth 3 times bigger than itself! And hundreds and hundreds of pitcher plants patiently waiting for their prey! Highly reccomend the full trek - you won't regret it !
翻译:感谢 Tom 和 AAB(Adventure Alternative Borneo)团队的帮助,马廖盆地徒步旅行成为了一生难忘的经历!我们的导游 Don 和 Chun 让这次体验变得格外特别 - 他们知识渊博,非常可爱!设施简单但舒适——每个营地的厨师都为我们提供最健康、最美味的食物。徒步前我非常担心自己的身体状况,但由于身体状况一般,尽管天气潮湿,每一天都充满了惊奇和惊奇!
而马廖盆地,原始且受到保护,简直就是一个神奇的地方。我认为我们的大脑和眼睛无法想象在这样一个地方经历的生物多样性的程度!你迈出的每一步,在树根和树叶之间,无数的生物体嗡嗡作响,就这样存在着。各种颜色和色调的青蛙,有些听起来像鸟儿,兰花在无数种类的蕨类植物和苔藓中隐藏着自己的优雅,蝉让森林充满了令人难以忘怀的声音,真菌感染了巨大的森林蚂蚁,使它们变成了“僵尸蚂蚁”听从他们的吩咐,爬到叶子边缘死掉,这样真菌就可以散布它的孢子,这些蠕虫会分泌胃液来溶解并吃掉比自己大三倍的飞蛾!还有成百上千的猪笼草耐心地等待着它们的猎物!强烈推荐完整的徒步旅行 - 你不会后悔的!