After an introduction evening the tour officially went going today. We left Miri in taxis to make it to the river boat port to board the first boat of a series of three – for our 12 hours epic river journey downstream to Mulu NP. While there is a flight available from Miri to Mulu, it was well worth it doing the boat trip … a small adventure in itself.

After arrival at the river boat port we had breakfast in a small restaurant nearby – before we finally boarded our aeroplane shapped boat (no wings of course) for the first three hours up to Marudi.

We made it into Marudi after around 3 hours – here we got our seats reserved for the onward journes … then we were of for a well deserved toilet break, limited shopping, some sightseeing and lunch.

After lunch the next express boat was waiting for us – and taking us from Marudi to Long Terawan – another journey of four to five hours.

On arrival in Long Terawan we changed to a longboat for the last bit of the journey (around 2 hours). In the last bit we were hit by a torrential – yet refreshing – tropical rain shower (look for the photo with the wall of water below … the rain, we were heading into). We made in into Mulu NP just in time for a late dinner.