Week- 14 (Ulu- ulu Temburong)

About the trekking:

On 15th November 2009, we had our trekking at Temburong and it's our last trekking of the first semester. For this week trekking i choosed to be the trekking organizer, However there were 3 trekking organizer for this week namely Syahir, Ayie and me if im not mistaken.

The excitment started at Kianggeh area, there we waited for our speedboat to bring us to Temburong. I arrived there around 6.15 am and waited for everyone to arrived. About 7.30 am our speedboat arrived and its abit late where we were expected to leave at 7am sharp.

As the journey started by using the speedboat it was something new as this was my first time going to Temburong and my first time getting into the speedboat as a passenger. It was about 40 to 45 minutes journey from Kianggeh to Temburong. In the middle of our journey rains started but luckly we were safe arrived to Temburong around 8.15am.

By the time we arrived there we were waited by one girl i don't remember her name and she will be our tour guide for the whole trip. Firstly, she bring us to have a breakfast at an indian restaurant. All of us had our breakfast of one 'Teh-C special' and one 'roti kosong'. After we had our breakfast then we go to 'Temuai' longboat. This boat can bring 5 to 6 person per boat.

As we arrived to the canopy walk it ws really exiting place. In order to reach to the top we have must to climb up a small steep slope with a slipery condition and stairs. It was really tiring yet still interesting. When we arrived at the top there were a steel structure that rise to 50meter from the forest floor and to the most top layer of the trees. It was really high and i was abit shaky climbing up because i was afraid of height. When i reach the top the view were really different from the bottom view because there were many beautiful view i can see including mt.kinabalu but it was really far.After doing that much activities we stop having our lunch at the waterfall area. There we had our lunch and rest for awhile.

The steel structure up to 50 meters high

The waterfall!! and there was Dr.Irene the first person to dive into the water.

At the end of the trip we visited Iban's longhouse. It was my first time entering this kind of houses. It was really unique which that house there were consist of 16 families member with all the rooms and veranda were connected. At last we headed back to the speedboat area at bangar and ready to be back to Brunei Muara.

Organization of experinces:

1. It was really hard to organize this trip as this were our first time being the organizer however me and Syahir manage to organize the speedboat transportation really well.

2. Overall the organization went really well as everyone giving full support doing their part as a team. As transport organizer Azri's went well where the bus arrived on time to UBD and fetch us up on time aswell at Kianggeh after the trip, the refresment was good that Abg Irwan provided enough refresment with two bottel of water and along with 100plus.

3. Time organizing its not really good, However this is not our fault as the speedboat doesn't arrived right on time we were expected to leave.

The environment and infrastruture:

1. The environment there were really different from we had in Brunei Muara because in Temburong mostly there were forest and only small roads available there,where on the other hand in Brunei Muara mostly there were many big roads and junctions.

2. The houses there are mostly wodden houses and just in small number was a concrete house, there were also many longhouses with different kind of style for example there were wodden kind of longhouse and there were also concrete long houses but only at the veranda were the concrete but back of it were still wood.

Learning aspect:

1. As being the trek organizer this gave me much experince in organizing this such trip. Here i can learnt organizing the transport such as the speedboat where me and Syahir booked for the boat.

2. This was my firs time going to Temburong and its really interesting about this place where went to the canopy walk and its really interesting being on top of the steel structure up to 50 meters. Its my first time aswell being in the 'Temuai' longboat and also first time visiting the iban longhouse, so here i can learnt many new stuff about their culture and style of living which were different from us.