A birds eye view

Mount Kinabalu from the plane

Back to KK, long enough to get a hair cut, and then onto Tawau on the eastern side of Sabah and the gateway to the islands of Sipidan, Mabul and Kapalai, for more diving. The flight takes you over Sabah, and after a fabulous view of the top of mount Kinabalu above the cloud the view turns into a rather sadder sight. There was far more evidence of the logging industry flying over Sabah than I had seen in Sarawak. Huge areas of rainforest had been cleared and all that was left to see was networks and veins of logging tracks. Just when I thought the destruction wasn't as bad as I had first thought, as I was starting to see more areas of green I realised that the green I was seeing was a little to regimented and a little too uniformly green. What I had taken for rainforest was enormous plantations of palm trees, palm trees being grown for palm oil. Rainforest destruction is most definitely a reality.