Sunday borneo forest adventure.

Yesterday i reached home from my long biking adventure at 11.00pm near midnight, i was damn tired, legs felt heavy, my body sweats and sticky all over my skins plus covered with dusts and few muds sticking around my feet. Exhausted i took a quick late dinner, bath and 30 minutes later fell heavily on my bed sleep all the way till moday morning.
So what's the story?...I went out riding with 2 of my buddies at 3pm using MIRI-BINTULU coastal highway towards a remote places called 'SIBUTI' covered with natural forest beauty of Borneo island. It took us 1 hours to travel half way on the road and another 2 hours travel through dense forest up the hills. In the forest we ride on the narrow trails so called "Borneo Head Hunters Trails" which in the old days thousands decades ago local jungle native people use this trails to travel through to hunt for animals and do some other hunting stuff. By the time we speeding through the narrow bumpy trails the sky getting darker by dusk at 6.10pm. Up and down, through open air green hills of paddy fields then dive into inner dark murky forest surrounded by dense trees, plantation patches, cycle over the rotten logs, over the bridges then swiftly surf gently like water around the snakey path like pro rider along the hills ridges....along the way we spots some wild monkeys, armadillos, rare "RAJAH BROOKE" butterfly, a Tamarine look like small monkeys and some tropical fruits like mangoes and Durian. As it getting dark we trun on our Halogen plus LED lightings to lit the dark forest trails as we struggle to find was to get back to coastal highways. 30 minutes later we reaches the main road and made a few pedals towards 'SIBUTI' rural town. We reached there at 7.00pm, tooks a quick rest and munch some foods. I bought to packs of cold sour plum drinks to fill me up...very tasty..local made drinks..yum! After 20 minutes of rest we then head back to MIRI town which took us less than 2 hours at max speed 45KM/H drafting behind each others. Our front front and back lights keep us safe by warn other car from hitting us from behind as we pedals beside the highway. At this speed we can still feel relaxed because the sunset windy breeze pushes us from behind provide us extra free push from behind...made our pedal more easy. It was almost dark, i can see on my left side the orange sun slowly gulp behind the golden sea horizon. It was beautiful sight but i didn't have time to pull out my camera to record those moments because all both hand on handle bars navigating the road. 7.45pm everthing completely dark, were half way home but decided to use the off-road beach trails to avoid nasty high speed car koncking off from behind on highways. It'll take another extra 3 hours because travelling through beach trails is quite bumpy and dark..still very thrilling for us. I can feel the sand just blasting over my face as we cruise and pounce our tires on the sands. At 9.30pm we reached MIRI esplanade costal area where public and local food stalls setup there, we arrive! We stop at nearby hut, unload our bike and gears and grab some refreshment..Coke, coconut drinks, BBQ chickens and seafoods fill us to burst. The night breezy wind from the beach blew our face strongly and the sea wave pounce on the sandy beaches, listening to the sound of wave and the winds make me feels much relaxed and at peace. Me and my buddy chat a lot and share common interest on bikes. We made some good laugh and share good moments travelling inside those jungles especially the monkey attack part where the monkeys more likely to ambush you from the top of the trees. Luckily no harm done and we're back in one piece. At 10.45pm most beach goers and local stall that sells stuff ready to pack their things and leave as it was getting late. Me and my buddy decided to call the day off and ready to pack our things and cycle back home. One of my buddy almost fell asleep and understood that each one of us have to wake up early next morning for work. We cycled out from the Esplanade and we broke away 400 meters ahead on the next junction. Upon reaching there i bid farewell and made a hand sign to indicate that we're going to meet again next Wednesday for another mountain biking ride around the city outskirts. My house located way up the hills so i have to pedal way up use up all the power i had left...tired... my head almost spinning like drunken dude i finally reached the peak, cruise down a bit and finally made a final fast sharp drift turn to reach my house gate. What a day!...great mountain biking life!