Day Trips from Tinangol - Borneo

Kesvi Mistry
Nov 1, 2014
2 min read

Tip of Borneo

The walk from the car par to the tip

So close, but no quite there - the walk felt quite far!

Finally arrived! We all took a lot of photos!

The actual tip and not just the plaque.

Our mode of transport to and from the tip - it wasn't a short journey either! My back was definitely hurting after this!

I think this trip is worth doing if you are already in the area, but I wouldn't go all the way there JUST to see the tip of Borneo.

Cove Beach and BBQ

The beach - it was not a long ride from the camp to the beach, it was definitely worth it!

The Camp staff setting up the BBQ

Going out to explore the cave near by! They were actually close enough for us to swim there, but the further you go out the stronger the current, so they decided to take a boat instead.

Fresh crab on the BBQ!

One of the best BBQ's I have ever and honestly one of the funniest days we had in Borneo!

Mangroves

Mangroves are forests of a specific type of tree (mangrove), they usually grow around wetlands/marshes. The one we went to was in a marsh, so the mud would go put your ankles! Safe to say I wasn't wearing the correct shoes for it. The difference with these trees and others is that their roots grow above ground.

Kenny giving a us a history on the mangroves in Borneo while standing on the tree roots

Exploring the forest.

Me climbing a mangrove tree - my feet were freezing by the end of the walk. Luckily it was hot so they had dried by the time we were back at camp.

Machete Making

This was not what I was expecting when we were told we were going to see some men making machetes. I honestly thought there would be some sort of factory/tourist attraction. But I was wrong, this was a very authentic experience. We went to a village where this man made machetes underneath his house, from scratch.

Setting up to make our machetes

Molding the metal in the right shape for the machete.

Gong Village

Again I thought this was going to be another touristic ploy, but this is a genuine village in which the people live. They're trade is making gongs. I was not expecting to see people's homes behind their gong shops. Of course their main source of income is tourism but it wasn't created specifically for that reason, it is their home first and then a tourist attraction.