We found this delightful little dendrobium around our hotel and in Mulu National Park. The plant above was growing on the edge of the Penan Village we stopped off at on our trip up the Melinau Paku River. Plants have terete leaves off a pseudobulb that is a thin stem above a swollen base and, as […]

Todays adventure was by boat up the Melinau Paku River, from our hotel to deep into Mulu National Park. We travelled upstream with our guide Henry and Hazer from the Sarawak orchid Society who helped out with everything. We stopped at Henry’s Penan tribal village to see and buy traditional crafts including these blowpipes made by […]

We are now back in Kuching so here is a little more about our time in Mulu National Park starting with Friday. We travelled north from Kuching to Mulu an area of limestone mountains covered in pristine rainforest and famous for some remarkable caves including the Deer Cave – the largest cave in the world […]

Plocoglottis acuminata is an orchid we first met yesterday in Mulu national park and saw again today outside one of Mulu’s famous caves. The species is a terrestrial of hot lowland forest and we found it growing in shade below the canopy. It has prominent white spots on the leaves and it has been suggested […]

Apologies but we have very limited internet in the rainforest so more photos to follow when we get back to Kuching tomorrow evening. We are now in Mulu National Park surrounded by rich lowland rainforest and surrounded by the dramatic limestone mountains of Mulu. We are back from a day in the forests where we […]