Thirty years ago, Mr. Hedley with his wife and his daughter went from Brunei to Sarawak which is in the East of Malaysia. They traveled by his Nissan-Dotson. However in some places they had to use a ferry, and a small boat.
They started the trip at 9:00 am in the morning, and they arrived there in the early evening. They had to stop in the government rest house and spent the night there. In the government house they shared the cold drinks they had bought with a group of scientists who lived there and who studied the jungle’s life. Unfortunately they had to sleep without an AC. The next morning they walked along the jungle path for half an hour until they reached the Niah caves. They saw inside the cave a group of men who wore lights on their hats and climbed up to the top of bamboo poles. At the top of the poles they scraped off bird’s nests and the men down in the cave packed the nests into sacks. They always do this and sell it for the Chinese to make bird’s nest soup.
They went back to Brunei in the afternoon. This was quite an adventure and one they would never forget, Mr. Hedley said.
