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Kiulu Valley : Valley in the Mist Earthquake Hit Ranau, Sabah ISSUE #57 : JUNE—JULY 2015 KIULU VALLEY : VALLEY IN THE MIST EARTHQUAKE HIT RANAU, SABAH LEMAING IS CLOSED FEATURED UNIQUE LODGE : THREE CAMEL LODGE Borneo EZone is Borneo Eco Tours monthly newsletter regarding our product updates, WHAT’S INSIDE ongoing and upcoming community and environmental projects, and NEWS AND HAPPENINGS recent happenings. 3 Sabah Earthquake 4 Closure of Lemaing CONTRIBUTORS: 4 A Helping Hand Albert Teo, Belinda Too, Dwana 5 Featured Tour Package Andrew, Rosalind J. Kantis, Riog 6 Product Updates Yanarch, Nancy Lamau 7 Kiulu Valley – Valley in the Mist ADVISORS: SUKAU RAINFOREST LODGE CORNER Albert Teo, Baton Bijamin, 9 SRL Recieves 3 Star Rating Timothy Teo, Susan Soong NATGEO UNIQUE LODGES CORNER PHOTOS BY: 10 Featured Lodge : The Three Camel Lodge Albert Teo, Nancy Lamau, 10 14 New Lodges Joins NatGeo Unique Lodges Rahman, Dwana Andrew, BEST SOCIETY CORNER Pius Joimin, Suhailie, Riog Yanarch 13 Volunteering for Habitat for Humanity 14 How Guest of BET/ SRL contributes to BEST Society’s projects PAGE 3 14 Volunteering and Internship 15 Signal Hill Eco Farm STAFF NEWS 17 Internship review 18 Carrot Award 18 RECWEL – A Weekend of Compassion 19 RECWEL—Hari Raya Celebration PAGE 4 BEYOND MEMORIES 21 Photo Album 22 Guest Feedback PAGE 7 PAGE 13 PAGE 15 Cover photo by Gordon Charles Whittleston—Feb 2015 Next Page Image : Kiulu Valley at Kiulu-Mantob. Read on page 7. MD SAYS Welcome to our June-July 2015 57th issue – our 10th year anniversary of Borneo Ezone. This is a roller coaster year of ups and downs. The year started with Sukau Rainforest Lodge becoming a charter member of National Geographic Unique Lodges of the world on our 20th anniversary celebration followed by the lodge getting a three star rating as a jungle lodge-the highest rating possible. On June 5, a 6.0 Richter scale earthquake struck Mt Kinabalu and took away 18 lives. The two subsequent mudfloods also destroyed our newly opened 16 bed Lemaing Camp, a RM300,000.00 community based ecotourism CBET project in Kiau village. In July, BEST Society and Borneo Eco Tours were blessed with another new opportunity to develop a new community based project, Kiulu Farmstay in Kiulu by a group of 12 volunteer architects from the Malaysia, UK and Australia. This is part of our integrated approach to CBET to work with a cluster of three villages in Kiulu consisting of Mantob, Mumpiring and Pinagon Baru centred around homestay program. The project is expected to complete in end of August 2015. Meanwhile, BEST Society will be busy implementing some community projects including Bengkoka Living water project, Sikuati organic farming project and Kiau earthquake recovery projects. Enjoy, Bsc.Econ.(Hons.) / London University, FHCIMA, CHA, ADK. Fellow, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Australia. Advisor, Camp Lemaing, Kg. Kiau, Sabah, Malaysia. www.lemaing.com Managing Director/Chairman, Borneo Eco Tours, Malaysia. www.borneoecotours.com Managing Director/Chairman, Sukau Rainforest Lodge, Malaysia. www.sukau.com Director, Borneo Ecotourism Solutions and Technologies (BEST). Society, Malaysia. www.bestsociety.org Member, Marketing committee, Sabah Tourism Board. Member, Rural Tourism Product Development committee, Sabah Tourism Board (2013-16), Member, Tourism Product Development Committee, Sabah Tourism Board (2013-16) 3 NEWS AND HAPPENINGS NEWS SABAH EARTHQUAKE SABAH EARTHQUAKE On 5th June 2015 at 7.15am, an earthquake hit Ranau, Sabah with a magnitude of 6.0. It lasted for 30 seconds and was the strongest to affect Malaysia since 1976. Areas in the east coast of Sabah also felt the tremors, as far as Labuan, Miri, Sarawak and Brunei. The earthquake affected 187 climbers of 21 nationalities. 137 were stranded and rescued but 18 lives were perished, 4 of whom were local mountain guides. Their courage and heroism have become the talk of the town, as some eyewitnesses saw them protecting the climbers. The four guides were Robbi Sapinggi, Valerian Joannes, Ricky Masirin and Joseph Solungin. The epicentre of the earthquake was very near to Mount Kinabalu and had caused major destructions to the surroundings. One of the peaks on Mount Kinabalu, the iconic Donkey's Ears was broken and main routes to the summit were also damaged and impassable to the stranded climbers. There were over 90 aftershocks reported ranging in magnitudes from 1.6 to 5.2. As a result, from the earthquake, most areas in the Kinabalu Park have been closed temporarily for repairs and rehabilitation. ROBBI SAPINGGI VALERIAN JOANNES RICKY MASIRIN JOSEPH SALINGIN CLOSURE OF CAMP LEMAING A series of tremors and added by tropical storm following the 6.0 Richter scale earthquake on 5th June had caused major landslides, followed by the flood of rock debris loosened by the earthquake, wrecked the lives of the inhabitants of the villagers including Kiau. Two mudfloods that hit Kiau including the latest on 4th July, caused severe damage to Lemaing, a community based ecotourism lodge, an hour trek above Kadamaian river from Kiau. The mudslides irreversibly changed the landscape of the area and permanently raised the river level by more than 10 metres. On July 6th, Dr Ravi Mandalam and Dr Heng Aik Cheng (President of Sabah Society) and wife, Ian Hall of Arkitrek, Baton Bijamin (General Manager), Leslie (Operation Manager), Pius (Adventure and Community Specialist) of Borneo Eco Tours, Albert Teo of BEST Society and staff of Lemaing went A HELPING HAND to assess the damage and the real cause and consider various options for The employees of Borneo Eco Tours and Sukau Rainforest the reconstruction of Lemaing. Lodge have collectively pledged a donation in aid for the As such, Lemaing will be rebuilt on a Persatuan Malim Gunung Kinabalu (Mountain Guides different site in the area. Until a Association) for a total of RM 4836 which was organised by suitable site is found and the rebuilding process commenced, Lemaing MATTA. The management of Borneo Eco Tours also operation will be unable to provide matched the same amount to be handed to BEST Society for any advice as to the timeframe of how Kiau 5-year recovery plan. long this process will take. With the turn of event, Lemaing is CLOSED until further notice. Borneo Eco Tours' guests who have booked Lemaing tours will be offered an alternative tour with the same value OR a full refund. 5 FEATURED TOUR PACKAGE TOUR FEATURED BB2E MALIAU NATURE TREK We have updated our nature tours to Maliau Basin. For those who want to spend more time to experience the wonders of Borneo’s primary tropical forest but had a limited time to do the full tour trekking at the heart of Borneo, this is the opportunity to take a glimpse of the lost world of Borneo. ITINERARY: Day 1 : Depart for MBCA. Overnight at Studies Centre Rest House Day 2 : Trek through the rainforest near Agathis Camp. Overnight at Studies Centre Rest House Day 3 : Visit nature Gallery. Overnight at Studies Centre Rest House Day 4 : Depart for Maliau Studies Centre READ MORE 6 To complement UPDATES PRODUCT with this tour, we are featuring this book for guest who are interested to learn more about the mystical Maliau Basin - one of Malaysia's finest remaining wilderness areas. For those who had booked the tours with us, you are our valued guests and we are giving you discounts for every book you purchase. So don’t miss out the good bargain! SECRETS OF THE LOST WORLD : BR20 : MALIAU BASIN : SABAH'S MALIAU BASIN SABAH'S LOST WORLD MYR 18.75 RM 25.00 DISCOUNT 25 % MYR 100.80 RM 168.00 DISCOUNT 40 % Visit www.borneoecotours.com/resources to see more books with discounted prices. Discover Borneo’s nature, culture and wildlife with the opportunity to stay at 5-star hotels, Pacific Sutera Hotel, Magellan Sutera Resort and National Geographic Unique Lodge of the World - Sukau Rainforest Lodge. This offer is valid for traveling till 30 September 2015. PR01 : BORNEO SAFARI PACKAGE Experience the highlights of Borneo in comfort. Sun at the island, cool breeze of the mountain, a glimpse of local culture, taste of the jungle and the cities. Stay at 5-star hotels, Pacific Sutera Hotel, Magellan Sutera Resort and National Geographic Unique Lodge of the World - Sukau Rainforest Lodge. MYR 4088/ PAX PR02 FAMILY VOYAGE Discover the rainforest, the island, the culture, the jungle, the wildlife all in one itinerary of 10 spectacular days with your pack. Stay comfortably at 5 star resorts and National Geographic Unique Lodge of the World - Sukau Rainforest Lodge. MYR 4242/ PAX 7 PRODUCT UPDATES PRODUCT KIULU VALLEY VALLEY IN THE MIST 1 Imagine the silence of pristine fields, a silence broken only by the calls of the native animals and the soothing sounds of water flowing over rocks. This is just one of the many delights awaiting you at Kiulu Valley. Located 60 kilometres from Kota Kinabalu, this beautiful valley offers you an experience of a lifetime by taking you through one of the most beautiful and unspoilt parts of Sabah A year ago, Albert Teo and team envisioned a new Community Based Ecotourism project in Kiulu, with the aim of transforming it into an integrated ecotourism destination that includes farmstead, homestays and outdoor adventure 2 activities. The principal objective behind this project is to alleviate poverty among the local community by creating new income and job opportunities – a social entrepreneurship approach that acts as a catalyst for community development and capacity building. Our community based ecotourism project in Kiulu has begun on July 4th 2015, as we collaborated with Arkitrek and volunteer architects from the United Kingdom (UK) to build a farmstay by the Kiulu River. Set to be completed by September, the farmstay will be the perfect place for visitors to cool down from the heat of the day, as they dip in the sensationally cool Kiulu River.
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