Archive for January, 2009

Up a Lazy River - Dayak - Kalimantan - Borneo

Up A Lazy River
The name Borneo has resonated since Victorian times with images of Dayak headhunters, poisonous blowpipes and the White Raj. Fortunately, the place is more hospitable these days. Kalimantan,the name derives from Malay words meaning “river of diamonds”, is the Indonesian part of Borneo.
The vast majority of Kalimantan’s five million inhabitants live in [...]