Gua Niah - Birds Nest Collectors Climbing Poles in Natural Cave (Borneo)

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Gua Niah - Birds Nest Collectors Climbing Poles in Natural Cave (Borneo)

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Wooden pole hanging from the roof of a natural cave (Borneo).

Those poles are (or were) used by birds-nest collectors to climb and harvest the birds-nests. The poles are formed of several segments , connected together by wood plugs.

Date & GPS location
Photo taken on August 8, 2011
Taman Merbau, Bahagian Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia
GPS coordinates: 3.814316,113.782664 - Download KML file for Google Earth (and other mapping apps)
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