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rest of the journey is a pleasant cruise through the jungle until Putussibau. If you make
this journey in the opposite direction, it takes twice as long due to the current, and costs
twice as much.
BOBO
About three hours walk from Tanjung Lokan is an astonishing vertical shaft of rock thrusting skyward out of the
jungle for hundreds of metres. Known as Bobo, it has never been climbed, locals say. A recent
National Geographic
expedition, the first to investigate the area, discovered the remains of a 5000-year-old settlement strewn with arte-
facts nearby. A good circuit and investigation would probably require a day, and can be combined with the Muller
trek, which passes nearby. This is raw exploration, of a kind increasingly difficult to find.
