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13 September 2019
Proboscis Monkeys Breakfast at the Gajah Mada was pretty good local food with two generous big fish (two share) and lots of meaty chicken curry. I left the hotel around 0800 for the Mangrove and Proboscis Conservation Area about 5+ minutes away by foot. The weather was still pleasant and not too hot. Speaking in […]
12 September 2019
Breakfast at the Lucky Hotel was simple with soup, fried small fish and rice. It’s not very often I get a smiley fish for breakfast with chilli. It was actually delicious and I had two, almost went for a third. As I relaxed in my room offered to take me out for coffee, to which […]
11 September 2019
Kuching to Tawau by flight I left home by Grab car at 0830. The driver took an unusually long route directed by Google Maps getting me to the airport around 15min later than I had expected at 0915. I had breakfast at the lounge before settling in to do some last minute work on the […]
1 September 2019
It had been kinda depressing being with aunt. Few years ago, she was still swimming 20 laps in an Olympic-sized pool but now she is barely walking. I try to put it into perspective with the fact that she is 90 years old. Fortunately, my uncle (and aunt) from Christchurch dropped in and we went […]
16 June 2019
Escaping the Kiwi winter in 2020 I woke earlier than I needed to. AirAsia had a sale but I hadn’t prepared myself for it. But I had this rough idea of using my free Air New Zealand ticket from Auckland to Seoul, then Buenos Aires to Auckland. The idea was that from Seoul I can […]
15 June 2019
I woke several times through the night and but I cope quite well with little or interrupted sleep. We set off for the our return journey after breakfast. Our itinerary says that we just go straight to port in the morning but Ita said we had a village visit. Not long after we started, we […]
14 June 2019
Feeding at Pondok Tanggui We set off at 0830 after breakfast for the 0900 feeding session at Pondok Tanggui. It took about 45 mins before a mum and a baby orang utan showed up. She was rather shy, taking some food and then retreating up to the branches above. Back on the klotok, we started […]
13 June 2019
All aboard! Last night, en route, I had messaged our boat organiser Dian to delay our pickup from 0900 to 1000. He messaged us to say that he would be at our hotel at 0930 but there would be no rush. We had breakfast at the hotel before readying ourselves for our 3d/2n klotok adventure […]
12 June 2019
Today we have a very long road trip by truffle from Pontianak to Pangkalan Bun, instead of two easy flights or a bus, both of which were cancelled. With the truffle, we had an 0900 departure which allowed a leisurely buffet breakfast at Ibis. According to Google Maps, the road trip should take about 12h […]
11 June 2019
Flying to Kalimantan Natalia and I had an 1145 flight from Kuching to Pontianak. The international side of Kuching airport doesn’t have many facilities to hang out in, so there’s no point to get to the airport too early. But with post-Raya congestion a possibility we decided to allow ourselves 2 hours plus plenty of […]