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21 November 2016
Above: Catering for my Christmas Island stay. I woke with some priorities in my mind. Accommodation on Christmas Island’s township was nearly booked out. I did one final check of the Virgin’s flight availability and decided that I should get on, on standby. With that, I rang the last remaining place in the township, the […]
20 November 2016
Above: Meals were included in my fare for less than what I would have paid on a budget airline. Leaving Kuching I didn’t want to bother my brother for a ride to the airport today. Being Sunday, it was his only day for a ride into the countryside with his mates. I had planned on […]
9 November 2016
Arriving and transit in Perth I was out of the secure area at Perth airport about 0010. The early arrival and quick processing meant I had more time to kill for my red-eye layover. I had worked it out that it would have been pointless going to a hotel and over-nighting and trying to catch […]
8 November 2016
Killing time From Cocos (Keeling) Islands to my hometown Kuching, it is 2126 km. That’s only a little more than the longest domestic flight in Malaysia. But unfortunately no non-stop connection exists, It’s gonna be two long days losing a night sleep flying CCK-PER-KUL-KCH 8031 km (nearly 4 times the distance). My flight to Perth […]
7 November 2016
Again, the forecast was for rain. It looked OK around 0700 so I progressed with my plan to take the 0710 bus to the jetty for the ferry to Home Island. In general Malays live on Home Island while white people on West Island. This was my chance to see how Cocos Malays live. Both […]
6 November 2016
The forecast was for rain today. It didn’t look promising when I woke up very early. But by around 0700 things cheered up; I gotta remember that I am waking up very early and the clouds can burn off. I cycled south this time to Scout Park which came highly recommended. The headwind was awfully […]
5 November 2016
Leaving Perth I woke at 0300, before my 0315 alarm. I had not allowed myself to adopt to local time yesterday because of this ghastly wake-up required for today. The taxi arrived at 0345 as booked and dropped me at the airport more than 2h before the flight at a cost of AUD42 (including some surcharge […]
4 November 2016
Today was a lazy day around town. Perth is a lovely city but it wasn’t my first time. I went to the supermarket to buy some muesli to bring along to Cocos but ended up with some canned food (beans, tomatoes, tuna) to make up lunch there plus my muesli and milk. I decided that […]
3 November 2016
The 7h30 flight went pretty quickly with a great meal, some comedies, reading and pre-landing supper. As it turned out, we arrived 30 minutes early. Disembarking, I looked out for an international transfer desk which I could utilise when I fly CCK-PER-KUL and XCH-PER-AKL later in the trip. Worse than that, there wasn’t even a […]
3 November 2016
This trip aims to explore parts of the Malay Archipelago that are now also part of Australia, namely Cocos (Keeling) and Christmas Islands. Despite their proximity to each other, I have to visit them separately from Perth, one on the way to Malaysia and the other on the way back. This is due to cutback […]