Kuching City Hash Harriers

We've enjoyed our time in the Borneo jungle so much that we decided the only appropriate way to spend our last afternoon in the country was to join the Kuching Hash Harriers for a run through the jungle. We were picked up at our hotel in the early afternoon for the journey out to the mountains near the Indonesiam border, for which 4WD was an absolute necessity!! An hour and a half later we arrived slightly bumped and bruised at a tiny village where about 100 crazy people were standing around preparing for the run. We then set off for a 2 hour run/scramble through the jungle, following a paper trail which had been laid earlier in the day by the 'hare'. Navigating lots of slippery steps and muddy slopes was hard enough but then you also have to contend with several false trails leading to big paper crosses, and then time spent running along trails with no paper hoping that you stumble across the correct route, all the time dreading the cries of 'on-on' from people on another trail which means that they have found the correct route! It wasn't all bad though as you could always hang around at the junctions letting other people do the hard work of finding the trail ;-)

We made it back to the village safely but somewhat soggy and muddy. Unfortunately the beer truck hadn't turned up but we headed back to a cafe for some well earned dinner and refreshments. As we were visitors we had to introduce ourselves to the group and were forced to down some beer....then we lost a darts game and were forced to down some beer.....it was quite a merry night and lots of fun. We also managed to turn up on a free t-shirt night so came away with a good souvenir!