"Borneo" is stretching it a bit. Eight days in Borneo in March 1989 only allowed time for Mount Kinabalu. But this amazing mountain is a perfect microcosm of the whole island - not the granitic upper slopes perhaps, because there`s nothing else like them in south-east Asia, but certainly the vegetated lower ones. Here`s a fact to surprise you: a recent botanical survey of the mountain estimated a staggering 5,000 to 6,000 plant species. This is more than all of Europe and North America (excluding tropical regions of Mexico) combined! That only one of these is portrayed on this page is an ommision of which I am retrospectively ashamed. Time to go back, this time with a mind freed from summit fever.