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Kelabit Highlands
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The air is clean and cool, the rice fields impossibly green, the local cuisine scrump-
tious, and the trekking - from longhouse to longhouse - some of the best in Borneo, but the
star attraction in the Kelabit Highlands (
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is the people, justifiably famous for
their ready smiles and easy way with visitors. Getting to Sarawak's remote northeastern
corner is half the fun - you can either bust your butt on logging roads for 12 hours or take
an exhilarating flight in a 19-seat Twin Otter turboprop.
Portrait of a Kelabit man
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