Brazil, the world's fifthlargestcountry by area, has 5.3 million squarekilometersofjungle and forests — mostlyinthe Amazonriverbasin — of whichonly 1.7 million are understateprotection.
The Maliau Basin may be one of the most primeval destinations in Sabah: a bowl-shaped jungle depression surrounded by unscalable jungle mountains that was unexplored until World War II, when it was spotted from the air by an Allied pilot.