Dawn to Dusk

A 24 hour visual journey in Malaysian Borneo: captured by Southeast Asia specialist Veronica

By Audley Travel

May 8^th, 2019

Travel is the act of leaving familiarity behind. We strive to feel far removed from both our routines and our beliefs when we travel. We want to be transported in order to feel distant from what we consider normal.

Borneo, for me, has always been an exciting unknown — a place so unfamiliar that almost all of my preconceived notions are blown away with the wind upon arrival.

Borneo is a place that delights with mystical sightings of orangutans, is infinitely rewarding in its atmospheric beauty, is blessed with kind hardy people, and provides a generous offering of rainforest permanently trapped in mystical clouds.

Please join me on an enchanting journey from dawn to dusk through Borneo as captured on my last research trip with Audley.

Dawn

"The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn."

-H.G. Wells

Dugout boats used by the Iban tribe on the Lemenak River

Morning

“Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields... Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.”

-Mary Oliver

Proboscis Monkey jumping through the trees along the Kinabatangan River

Fish Market Vendor at Serian Market between Kuching and Batang Ai

Family of long-tailed macaques on the Kinabatangan River

Mid-Day

"The mid-day sun is too much for most eyes; one is dazzled even with its reflection."

-Learned Hand

Boats in the waters along Bako National Park

Afternoon

"If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live."

-Lin Yutang

Egret taking flight on the Kinabatangan River

Twilight

"Twilight, the only time of the day when the light and dark meet and become one. The bright powerful light of the day, calmly surrenders before the engulfing duskiness of the night. And the dense whelming darkness of the night yields before the surreal dawning saffron of the morning."

-Neena Verma

Sharing rice wine in the longhouse home of an Iban tribe

Bats leaving the caves in Mulu National Park

Relaxing in a longhouse on the Lemenak River

Newly-hatched turtle heading to sea on Lankayan Island

Night

"Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress"