a-syahirah:

BAKAS project, near Bintulu.

The hike was a disaster.

We hiked up barefoot, wadding upstream, climbing over trees that were cut down and through muddy and rocky areas for almost two hours until we reached the dam.  This wasn’t like the fun hikes in national parks with at least a dirt trail if not a footpath. We had to follow the river and the pipes leading down from the dam and make our own path. This was a jungle that no one has gone up except for the workers/armed forces/locals to build the small dam. 

No one got bitten by leeches, but our feet were bleeding by the time we finished the hike. The guy wearing the slippers is the contractor, he suggested we take off our shoes/boots so that it won’t get ruined. I’d rather my shoes ruined than my feet bleeding. A little too late for that.