You will sleep in dorm-style accommodation and have to hire a ranger guide, with the combined costs coming close to 1, 000 Malaysian ringgit, but that is less than half the cost of arriving via a package tour.

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However, one was a duplication, another was a guide actually cited for failing to comply with a ranger's order, six resulted in convictions, and the others were dismissed, he wrote.

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