“A huge bowl of pristine forests described as one of the few remaining relatively untouched wilderness areas in the world.” -@maliaubasin
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📍 Maliau Basin
Maliau Basin, “Sabah’s Lost World” is one of Borneo’s least travelled gems. It is a bowl of pristine forest encircled by insurmountable cliffs and steep slopes up to 1,500m in height. The whole basin is a single water catchment drained by numerous tributaries of the Maliau River. While the local Murut people have known about the area, it has remained relatively untouched by the Western world for centuries. It was not until 1988 that a major scientific expedition explored this virtually self-contained ecosystem. Filled with plentiful waterfalls and an abundance of wildlife - over 2,000 recorded types of fauna and flora - Maliau Basin Conservation Area is one of the few remaining relatively untouched wilderness areas in the world.
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