Patah Balik Belakang

19/06/2009- LAWAS

Hari ni bermula pada pukul 7.05 pagi dari Hotel Shangsan Lawas. First thing first, look for heavy breakfast somewhere in the vicinity of the hotel. Dah lupa nama restoran pagi tadi, but the best part when I asked for roti canai the lady told me that " roti ndak ada lagi....tukang buat roti hantar anak sekolah" hah what? kalau kat KL pukul 5 pagi dah tabur roti dah...that live in Lawas just need to follow the flow.

Habis breakfast terus bergerak ke arah Long Samado nak carik beberapa sunai kat sana...first destination Sungai Pa Bekulu. Masuk jalan balak, first time bawak 4 wheel jalan macam ni.. interesting but I know it is dengerous, actually I worried but I keep to myself without telling the others. We arrived Pa Bekulu dalam pukul 8.30 pagi park kereta dan our destination is off by 1000 metres. Cantik bukan sungai pun ini jeram dengan batu-batu. Kami turun ke Sungai dan jalan terus atas batu sampai lebih kurang 800 meter dari destinasi yang kami nak pegi. terus selesaikan kerja dan bergerak balik. Masa ni kami dapat pengalaman baru...tengok macam mana lori balak bergerak guna jalan ni...memang laju gilerrr....bila lepas je lori balak ni dari kami penuh habuk naik jalan..memeng bahaya tak nampak depan....

Bila sampai ke kereta kami terus set GPS untuk ke Sungai Briwan dalam 6 km dari Pa Bekulu. Jalan masih okay tapi kami selisih dengan lori balak dan 4 wd...laju betul diaorang bawak kereta kat jalan balak ni...masa ni kami sedar yang tayar kami ni tak sesuaio untuk pakai offroad jalan macam ni...tapi kami samapi jugak la ke Sungai Briwan...Sungai Briwan pun sebenarnya jeram tapi besar sikit dari Pa Bekulu. Interesting...

Dah selasai kerja dan tengok jalan kat depan kena naik bukit tinggi kami pun ambil keputusan tak nak terus ke depan...patah balik dan terus buat sungai yang patut kami buat semalam...

Keluar simpang Long Semado kami terus kearah KK untuk ke Sungai Limpaki...Sungai Limpaki terletak dalam kampung kaum Lembawang..sempat sembang dengan seorang pakcik dari situ...kata nye untuk projek ni tanah dia kena ambik la sikit dapat la duit dalam 20 ribu tak cukup kata nye..aku pun sibuk mengapikan dia kata betul la sikit sangat...tapi ye la kalau jadi jutawan pun aku tak rasa pakcik ni tau macam mana nak handle..

Sungai Limpaki memang cantik....jeram kecik macam kat janda baik...air bawah lutut..sebab musim kemarau..kalau tak mungkin tinggi jugak kot. aku bukak kasut dan rendam kaki dalam air..sejuk nyaman sungguh kata orang kat sini...we spend about few hours at this location just to relex for awhile.

Selesai sungai ni kam terus balik ke arah pekan Lawas untuk carik bot nak ke destinasi berikutnya. Mid point we realised our GPS showed a direction to our next destination...earlier we do not aspect that our next destination is accesible by road...we are lucky...we managed to be at a position 100 meters off our final point. While the others are busy taking photos and carry out video shoot, I went to a nearby house and introduce myself to the keeper. He told me that he was engaged by a tug/barge owner as watchmen to look after the vessels owned by a plantation company based in Miri. I interviewed him and managed to get good information about the river. It seem that the river is an important means for transporting logs from nearby log pond upstream which the old man willingly to volenterr himself to showed it to us. He did that hoping that I can introduce him to my client for him to secure a job with them. I promised him to do so which I did not till now.

Around 1500 hours we are back at Lawas town for lunch before visiting night market which already started from noon I think. Our day finish with meeting with our client to discuss about tomorrow journey which I will not join. It is a pity that I will miss this trip which I consider a trip in a lifetime..I dont think I ever get a chance to travel to the interior near Sarawak / Indonesia border. I need to go back to KL to do other things which is equally important for my business. Hope I will able to see good photos from my team when they are back in KL. Good night.....