2nd FPMPAM Sabah Medical Camp.

2. 2nd FPMPAM SABAH MEDICAL TEAM
Medics and Impian Volunteers
Just as we prepare to leave Asiana Hotel ( KK ) for Pensiangan.
( 6-7 hours journey, last 2 hours through logging roads )

3. To Keningau / Pensiangan via the Tambunan Road across the
Crocker Range

4. Across rolling hills and winding roads, beautiful day

5. A pit stop,
for relaxation, natures call and also car tyres to cool down

6. Beautiful scenery up the Crocker Range

7. Lunch break at Sook, a few doors from Sook DAP Office

8. Once off the Sapulut , the journey gets tough as we engage
logging roads

9. This is a transit stop. We have to change from our
11 seater van, to these tougher 4x4, signaling that
the way ahead is no joke. Getting ready for real off
road conditions, as we will soon find out.

10. Here we go. Narrow mud tracks, winding up hill and downhills
My driver was very skillful just to stay on the road.

11. A brief stop to cool down the engine. The roads were tough

12. Across shallow river

13. Mud tracks. Slippery and skillful driving. The journey was
incident free.

14. After about 7 hours on the road, our first view of Pensiangan

15. Mahkamah Mukim Pensiangan –still in operations

16. The School in Pensiangan. A lovely view.
Pensiangan is in two parts separated by the Sg Salut

17. Cardboard advertisement
for the Camp tomorrow. I
was surprised. Usually
there is are banners.
This notice was placed
outside a sundry shop
belonging to one Mr Goh.
The Chinese were here
since the colonial days
History records that they
started as traders in good
quality natural Birds Nest
which they harvest from
the caves around
Pensiangan

18. We droved to the north part of the town and our sleeping
quarters were at the south part, so we have to use this single
span suspension bridge to cross back and forth. Let me assure
you, it is a nervy experience.

19. Water buffalos bath in the rivers

20. I managed to convince a boy to take me up and down river for
a brief boat ride.

21. Our living quarters. Females in rooms and males in the hall, all
upstairs

22. Our bathroom and toilet.
Water was cold and torch light power

23. A night scene from across the river. I am not at the south part,
looking across the river. Time to sleep. A long day tomorrow.