I AM THE BORNEO EXPLORER 婆罗洲探险者

Trail Details:

Distance: 3.1km

Moving Time: 4 hours

On day 4 of my Ulu Baram exploration trip, that morning we trek along the Selaan river, one big loop. It consist of my, Ian, and Wee Ming, the 3 of us.

Not sure what will we encounter, on the river bank, I hope we can find a suitable place for picnic and a swim.

Nah.... I'm just kidding. As the water on the Selaan river are yellowish, so I think maybe its not a good idea to swim inside.

The vegetation consist of mixed dipterocarp forest, there are spike plant here and there, which I hate the most.

The elevation its around 300 above sea level, but the elevation we gain maximum its only 64 meter. The ridge along the river bank are mostly steep edge all the way down the river.

I saw rotten durian, how good it will be if now its the durian season, then we can have free durian while trekking.

Very peaceful along the river bank, every now and then I can listen/see small motor boat cursing by. Therefore this river must have a certain depth in order for the boat to pass.

Some part of the trail, well there is no actual trail, just some part there will be a big drop, so we will need to either ascending or descending to move forward.

There is also a part where there are just rocks at the bank. Need to move forward by going on the slope of the rock. This makes me think back of my adventure while climbing the highest mount at Batang Ai, after we descent, we also need to walk on rocks at the river bank.

We encounter some rapids here, this also means that the water might be shallow here, so it will be a good spot for us to cross the river

The water lever its at knee level, we cross the river carefully, the current are strong enough to swipe us down if we are not careful enough.

After crossing the river, we reach a farm, which has some plantation like chill, yam, and bananas.

We decided to hike to a higher area, in hope that we can have a clearer view on the whole area.

But no avail, as there are just too many vegetation, and we don't have knife to clear our way up. I remember around this area, we pass by a bee hive, and I got stung on my chin, Ian was in front of me, I quickly call out "BEE!!! RUN" so the two of us move very quickly, while Wee Ming move further up. Now thinking back, its was kinda hilarious.

So going up its not an option, then we head further down, hope it will be easier to get back to the trail head.

Oh my godness, the bridge where we start this trek its just a few meter away from us, but we are being block by this endless vegetation.

After much struggle, we finally reach the trail head, so now its time to go back and clean ourselves.

What an adventure ✌😀

To read the complete post, click on the link bellow.

Day 1 : Miri to Segah Selaan Homestay

Day 2 : The 100 Meter Single Drop Selaan Tekiwit Waterfall

Day 4 : The Keluan Waterfall a Triple Mega Direct Drop Waterfalls

Day 5 : Long Selaan River Trekking

Day 5: Batu Siman and Batu Tujuh

Today I'm going to explore the Long Keluan area, its basically had a few big basin, and one of the basin has this triple mega direct drop waterfall. I'm very eager to go and see it with my own eyes.

We start our journey at about 7.15am, from the Segah Selaan Homestay to Long Selaan its around 50km, will take us about 2 hours of 4WD ride.

The Long San bridge, and Baram river

Reach the junction of Long Keluan

Some part of the road is extremely bad, we are very fortunate to have a skillful 4WD driver to drive us to our destination safe.

The very peaceful village of Long Keluan, this place its fortunate to have electric supply

Its a rural electric supply project run by the Kementerian Pembangunan Luar Bandar (Ministry of Rural Development) and colaborate with Sarawak Energy.

Another interesting thing its this place, its a place where the village people use to forge parang (knife).

To respect the local community, we hired a local guide from the village here to hike together with us, so that he knows where are we going, and will act accordingly in case something bad happen.

09:25am, we had reach the trail head, and are looking for the correct entrance to the waterfall

Because very few people visited this place, so it took sometime for our guide to look for the correct starting point

09:40am, we start our trekking by descending down to a valley

There are many loose rocks, and fallen trees trunk. Carrying a heavy backpack makes our hike harder. To hike slowly to avoid any injury.

10:10am, our first glimpse on the Keluan waterfall

Our plan was to camp on the upper part of the Keluan waterfall, so we left our heavy pack on the junction, and hike to the base of the waterfall to explore first, after that we will come back again, get our backpack, hike to the upper fall, and camp there for a night.

10:20am not long after our descent, we had reach a stream, and the water are from the Keluan waterfall. Pity that the water turns our to be yellowish color, this is due to the fact that the yellow soil around the whole basin area.

Here I am, the first ever triple mega direct drop waterfall that I've ever witness in Sarawak.

The waterfall wall are surround by multiple layers of earth crust, and the surface are being wash away by the water for a very long period of time which eventually form this big basin.

If the water are clear it will be a perfect scenery, but pity some part of the water are yellowish. Almost flawless.....

I'm very curious on how deep its that hole there?

Our exploration did not just stop at the triple mega fall, we continue to venture to other part of the area, to explore more basin.

Another big basin are just few mins hike away from Keluan waterfall, again the water is yellowish. If its clear, I would have jump into the water and swim.

Just look at the size of that basin

After that we continue to ascend, this time its to our purpose camp site for that night.

12noon, We finally made it, this is the upper part of the Keluan waterfall. After we reach, we plan to camp here, but our guide told us that its not a good place to camp, because he is worry about falling tree branch, and flash floods.

A bit disappointed as after we found out we can't camp here, for us this will be the perfect place to set up our base camp, and go and explore.

We trek further up, and found another big basin

If you look carefully, you will notice my friend Ian it's at the middle right, from that you can roughly scale the size of this place.

We hike to the place where the water drop, and plan to go further up, but the entrance is so small, and strong current are flowing on us, so its barely impossible to go further up, I manage to look what's up there, and to my surprise its another big basin like this one here.

The guide had recommend us to camp where the 4WD is parked, since that we can't camp here, so after discussion, we had decided to went back to the homestay, instead of camping on a place that we don't like.

So that conclude my Keluan waterfall exploration, one thing I notice very interesting was one of my guide are using this ordinary flip flop to hike with us throughout this whole day 😅 now that's some very impressive skill there.