Harry Potter and the Middle of Nowhere
I was recently looking through some old photos from one of my first trips to Borneo, a couple of years before I moved there full time, which has brought back a lot of memories. I had joined a Raleigh International expedition as project manager, leading groups of 30 or so young adults over a period of three months. The project I was leading with a colleague was to build a Kindergarten in a remote village in the centre of the Malaysian State of Sabah ; mainly an area of subsistence farming communities. Although I have hundreds of photographs from this expedition, I had forgotten about this particular picture which was taken as we were waiting a couple of hours for some local transport to take us from the main road, where we had been deposited by buses from the local town an hour away, to the village, Paus, via some pretty rough terrain, through jungle and mountains. It being Borneo, it was thunderously hot and humid. In t...