It's been 10 years since my first Photographic Expedition into Maliau Basin Conservation area in Sabah, Borneo. Maliau Basin is still so pristine and unspoilt and barely visited by 3000 people since it’s first discovered in 1912. Because of it limited accessibility, I only managed to get in again recently after all these years.

In my 5 days of trekking through about 43 km of rugged terrain, with 3 afternoon trekking through the rain in the tropical heath rainforest where the humidity reaches more than 90% and temperature at 21deg to 23deg, it is no easy feat as a nature photographer's with the equipments to capture the beauty of Maliau Basin. I have ops out of the regular camera bag (Tamrac Expedition) for a regular 42 liter knapsack with raincover which I did without hesitation, this decision I made saved the camera equipments from the element. All my gears are placed inside Sea to Summit waterproof bags to protect from the element.

I carry my camera most of the time hanging over my neck while trekking (Many professional photographers' advised against doing this as you might damaged your camera if you were to fall). There are two reasons I do this; 1) Opportunity might be lost if there are animals that appears within your sight as animals in the rainforest are shy of human. 2) The humidity in the rainforest is very high and keeping your camera and lenses outside balances the temperature thus reduces the condensation problem.

In order to lighten my weight, I carry with me on this trip are my Canon 5DmkII, Canon 17-40mm f:4 L lens, Canon 70-200mm f:4 L lens, Canon 100mm f2.8 macro lens, Canon 580EXII flash and ST-E2 transmitter with Manfrotto Carbon 440 tripod. My back up camera is the Panasonic GF1 with 14-45mm lens and 20mm f1.7 lens.