I made a round trip to Tongod and Nabawan with my colleagues on our regular visits to two oil palm development. From KK, we drove to Tongod via Ranau and Telupid. It was about 200km to Telupid (3.5 hours in the very early morning), then the 65km to the project site in Tongod took 2 hours. At this stage in the development, the river crossings were still required ...
... luckily a fine day and low level on the river.
Terracing on the hilly terrain ...
... with oil palm planting started.
How long will this be the view?
In the late afternoon, we drove to Keningau via Ranau to Tambunan, than Apin Apin (also about 200 from Telupid). The next morning, I took this photo of the Keningau Town Mosque; note the land clearing behind the Mosque compared to the photo I took for the
posting in Oct 2010.
That morning we drove from Keningau to Nabawan via Sook (about 90km). Again, we see the terracing on the hills ...
... and an over-enthusiastic excavator operator from one of the contractors.
Roads within the area always need to be connected; ...
... using the hardwood logs felled within the development area to construct the bridges will provide the lowest cost; and will last for many many years.
Of course there are also flat areas; this one now being planted.
This tree is replaced ...
... by this oil palm for the next 25 years. We drove back to KK from Nabawan in the afternoon (about 200 km)
No comments:
Post a Comment