Long Bedian - Part 2

Finally, time for the long awaited update of part 2 (IF you waited, haha). Was a bit busy and knocked off track by the recent turns of events and activities.... so well, here it is.

Part II

(This is continued from part one, if you haven't read part I, I suggest you do so HERE)

Day 2 came around..... at 6:30 in the morning.

After having a heartfelt breakfast with our foster families.... chit chatting about who we are, where we're from, what we do..... (which reminds me of a song....), we finally took off for our next stop, which was the Kayan people's very own Sungai Tenyok Resort.

Then, we took something like the 'First Generation' Old-skool Land Cruiser.....

Figure 1. Our ride to Sungai Tenyok.

It was basically a three seater.... so we had to hitch onto the back of it, giving ourselves a chance to experience the fresh air which could only be found miles away from the city.

Figure 2. This..... is the old-skool refueling method.....

Since the day before when I arrived here, everything seemed so..... "amazing" to me. It was a wonder how the whole kampung managed its water supply: which was taken from a self built dam nearby; it was another wonder how they managed to wire their houses to their generators: where they used at night and turned off during the day; and the picture above again....... I wonder whether I would've thought of such a method to pour the fuel into the tank........ ingenious, I have to say....

And after the refueling.... we set off.... for yet another mind jolting ride.... but this time, with fresh air blowing into our nostrils.....

Figure 3, 4. More roads....

The sceneries were nice....... even better than the day before's.... but then again, all the bumping and "massage" made all the views kinda lopsided in my mind...... I could never get the time to remember a straight scenery....

After about 30 minutes of humping in the rear of the pickup...... we arrived......

Figure 5. The suspension bridge near the entrance....

Indeed, this place..... since the first day till today.... everything I saw.... never ceased to amaze me.

Figure 6. The river..... (duh)

(I guess it doesn't look so nice on picture again..... well, cameraphone, what to expect.... you have to see the real thing to appreciate it)

Oh the scenery of nature..... something so rarely are we able to see nowadays..... like right now, what I see when I look outside my window..... is my neighbour's window... but overthere.... everything was perfect. So natural, so peaceful, so beautiful.


We spent the morning.... helping.... wait..... helping? Lol.... I guess not, all we did was attach a few pipes together, that's all. We were supposed to help out the villagers with their plans in affixing a hydroelectric generator and some pipelines for their eletricity and water source..... but turned out that..... they had a change in plans, and asked us to go swimming.


So.... we spent our morning swimming in the icy cold (maybe not icy cold) river..... which was something new to most of us..... swim swimming swim.... until lunch.....

After lunch.... I was already tired from being in the water for the past few hours...... but more was awaiting us. What we had in queue was a visit to their waterfalls..... And so..... half reluctantly (cause I was sleepy and tired), I got into the back of the pickup again...... and jolted my way awake to the waterfall site......

By the time I reached there, I was already fully awake, with my eyes watching my feet and the ground in case any pink-purplish squishy creatures adhered themselves to my feet (leeches). 5 minutes walking distance from the road........ and behold:

Figure 7, 8. The ________ waterfall (fill in the blank, I forgot the name)

My eyes were like "wow......". This was really the first time I actually saw a waterfall...... THIS big..... (though it wasn't really THAT big, but...... yea.....), and this wonderful...... Around it were rays of light that came down from heaven, like those light rays you see from movies and animes..... "So, there really ARE such scenes in real life........"

The one in the pictures was the smaller waterfall, there was another, much HIGHER waterfall..... maybe 3 or 4 stories high, which we could only see from the top since there was no way of getting to the bottom (imagine standing on the 4th floor of TTSS's CCA building and looking down, that's about how it looked like from standing above the waterfall)

The pictures I took didn't turn out nice....... so no pics on the 2nd waterfall.


After the 1st two waterfalls and some swimming below them, we went to yet another one....... but this time.........

Figure 9. Errr...... "Widescreen" (The pic is a bit small because it's wider than taller, click on it if you wanna see properly)

The water fall was BIG....... not high, not much water...... but the rocky part where we could stand on was wide and cool, "cool?..... whatever.... it looked cool I guess.... kids these days seem to use 'cool' to express everything"

And here, we did........

Figure 9. Waaaah.....


Figure 10. Weeeeee........!!!!


Figure 11. Buuuuussshhh!!!............

Before we realised, it was time to be bumping another 5 hours back home..... Four 4-Wheelers.... once again, 5 hours.... of bone jolting butt flattening ride..... shaking us back to reality.


The rest of the trip was basically time we spent together with each other and the villagers..... getting to know each other, learning about the culture and so on.....

All in all, this was really an experience to remember.... all of it. From the free "massage" sessions to the drowning feeling after jumping from waterfalls........ it's all worth it.....

It was actually like watching the dawn of modern mankind..... seeing how they improved, seeing how they maintained their lives.... learning, improvising, improving, it was what brought humans to be who we are today. It was truly a trip that changed my perspective of life.


So long.