High on a plateau near the Kalimantan border, around a thousand metres above the lowland heat, Bario is the heart of the Kelabit Highlands — a patchwork of rice paddies, buffalo pastures and villages that produces the famously fragrant Bario rice and impossibly sweet Bario pineapples.
The highlands are laced with trails linking Kelabit villages, ancient salt springs still worked by hand, and mysterious megaliths left by earlier generations. Cool air, slow days and legendary hospitality make Bario unlike anywhere else in Sarawak.