Project: River-Taxi Project_Part 3_Personal visit to Sri Aman

It's an advantage for me when I first knew about this River-Taxi project. Yala, Sri Aman is my mum's hometown so I can reach quite a number of people for information. It's even better since my mum's longhouse is along one of the tributaries (Undop, Lemanak, Skrang and Batang Ai) of Batang Lupar. So during the Raya holidays, I went off to Undop to interview a few locals.


Sungai Undop is further upriver of Batang Undop. The river is quite shallow but quite wide. The flow is quite fast (rapid) and there are a lot of dead tree trunks here and there. In addition to that, the river is nothing like Batang Lupar. Undop have clear water (in the picture it's not so clear because every time it rains, muddy water from logging will pollute the river) and it's with rocks rather than mud.


Thus, it is quite hard for one to use power boats but some do use small boats to fish and travel by short distance to their orchard. However, the scenery of flora and fauna along the river is breathtaking. It's no surprise that tourist do come over to the longhouse to stay for a night (home-stay).


Boats for locals to town is not necessary because it's a lot easier to go by road but if we view it in terms for tourism, then it's worth a shot. However, it's not that easy to do due to the depth of the river...How now???? Byah!!!