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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 […]
9 April 2019
It was raining when I woke. Better today than yesterday, my sightseeing day! I went downstairs and found that the cook had gone out to buy provisions. He was already due back but was probably stuck somewhere due to the rain. So breakfast wasn’t available in-house. I wandered a couple of doors away and had […]
8 April 2019
Getting ready I woke early due to the previous early mornings I’ve had, and also the one hour time difference. I had suggested an early departure but the petrol station didn’t open till 0800. I killed time with a walk back to the waterfront to catch the view in a different light, before returning for […]
7 April 2019
I woke early again around 0600 and was downstairs at a cafe for breakfast at 0630. I checked out and walked to the nearby Kuching Sentral station after and checked-in for my bus (which really just means having the bus registration place number disclosed to you so you can board). It was a brief wait […]
15 February 2019
My little holiday After four nights but three full days, I’m homeward bound. But because I use to word “home” to both mean Kuching and Auckland, I’d better clarify! Today I leave Bali to fly back to New Zealand. It had been a nice stopover while being the most economical way of getting from Kuching […]