Ba'Kelalan - Sarawak

Have you ever thought you can find apple farm in Malaysia? Ba' kelalan is the only apple farm you can find in Malaysia which is at Sarawak. You have to take a flight to Miri, then transit with smaller plane to go this place. Ba'kelalan is located in the highlands among the mountain ranges. The weather is cooling and you don't even need air-con or fan at night.

They use the apple to make apple pie, apple strudel, apple tart, apple cake....sound delicious? These are homemade desserts by the local aborigine. It's nice!

This place is not famous with apple only but also salt. They have a salt spring which is the source of the salt they produce and sell to the market. The salt is not like we saw at the market usually, The salt colour is brown and it's more healthier ingredient than the normal sea salt. We have to cross 3 streams, a little jungle walk to reach salt spring. On the way, the organizer has arranged something fun for us such as eating the bamboo vege kind of thing, watching the culture performance at the riverside, tasting those jungle things which I don't even know what it is. Eu....

Other than that, the Bario rice is also famous where most of the Borneo residents will know about that. It is also kind of healthier rice compare to the rest. SO, these are the main income for the locals.

This place is so close to Kalimantan border and we have a walk to the border. It takes almost 2 hours to the place and the walking for me is a long journey but it's fun. After we reached the border, they use the 4 wheel drive send us to the village to have lunch. Those dishes are so special and I really don't know how to name all the dishes. But the fun thing I like is using the bamboo as the spoon, plate and cup. You can feel the actual and real local culture taste where you can't have else way.

Homestay is the choice of stay. I was arranged by the organizer to stay with a family. They will start the electric generator at 5pm and stop around 11pm. As such, you will not have any electric or even light during mid night. So better be prepared with torchlight but I wasn't to have that. :(
The whether there is cold, the water are mountain water which is very cold like ice, and I have to bath with icy cold water everyday. Gosh!!! You know how fast is my speed for a bath that making me jumping in the bathroom. It's cool to wash hand but not that fun to use for bath, isn't it?

Another fun thing was we can walk across the airport runway and the dog can freely enter the runway. I can take picture at the runway! And we need to climb across the fences when were going to the apple farm and salt spring. Na! This is the real "kampung" life that you can really feel the village taste.