water world. riverine settlements such as this in Baram in interior northern Sarawak becoming inundated by severe floods over the past few days. pic by villager.
MIRI: Travelling by land into ulu Sarawak has become fraught with dangers, with daily risks of landslides, erosion of timber roads, and flash floods that can cut off entire stretches of roads and turn them into rivers of mud after just a short downpour.
The bad weather in the interior of the state now poses many risks when travelling but still rural folk commuting between their interior settlements and urban centres have no choice but to face such dangers as land transport is the only means of getting to the outside world.
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