Special arrangements can be made to take the North Borneo Railway further afield, as far as Beaufort and even on the spectacular run over the Padas River to Tenom.
Even the rivers of the Kola peninsula, so heavily promoted by American and British travel companies, now seem under threat, with biologists estimating that poachers kill up to 50% of the salmon run on the Kola River and as much as a third on the Umba, Kharlovka and Rynda.