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20 March 2018
I went to the Sarawak Cultural Village about 26 years ago. It is a living museum of Sarawak’s tribal cultures. With Jo visiting, I thought it was good to go and show her what makes Sarawak special. The traditional dwellings were interesting for her and we tried the sago pancake, tumpik which turned out to […]
19 March 2018
With Jo still on New Zealand time, it made sense to go to the Semenggoh Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre early in the morning. We got there a little before 0900 and were hurried along by staff as the two animals were already hanging around. We observed them for a while before being led to another […]
18 March 2018
Today Jo arrived from New Zealand after a nightstop in Singapore. With an afternoon arrival, it made sense to pick her up at the airport and continue to the Siniawan Night Market not too far away. It was an interesting introduction to Borneo for her. Old buildings there are a rarity as the wooden structures […]
28 September 2017
We landed in Kuala Lumpur International Airport about 30 minutes late around 2110. I made my way to KLIA2 by train to experience my first capsule hotel stay. Without luggage, I managed to make a reasonably speedy exit. I never expected that my initiation into the capsule hotel experience to be in KL! Necessitated by […]
9 September 2017
Even though we had all been to Semenggoh to see the orang utans, I thought it would be a nice outing combined with Siniawan Night Market (which my guests hadn’t been to). We left around 1330 and got to the park around 1430 for the 1500 feeding session. After a somewhat lengthy introduction and safety briefing, […]
6 September 2017
The facebook page of Gunung Gading National Park indicated that there was a rafflesia in bloom. I decided that I’d take Paul and Steevie (my guests) there and suggested that my brother take his guests too. They are all in town for my mother’s 90th birthday. We set off around 1000 for the 1h50 drive […]
28 August 2017
Above: Our Khao San Road area. We landed at Bangkok’s Survanabhumi Airport at 0830.  This would be my one night here in order to make a safe connection to Kuala Lumpur.  I didn’t want to risk a tight connection nor have a protracted but safe wait after the longhaul night flight. One crew in her […]
13 July 2017
We woke before 0700. None of us were hungry so we skipped the muesli which we had brought. Rosli took us back to the mainland Kuching at 0800. I had a few bites from the night. Some turned into huge hemi-spherical blisters. I never respond well to sandfly bites; my last exposure to them in […]
12 July 2017
 A relative had organised for us to visit one of two turtle hatcheries accessible to Kuching. We are going to Pulau Satang Besar, as opposed to Talang-Talang (which is expensive and available to those doing a 4 day volunteering). We set off at 0830, grabbed some breakfast before driving to Telaga Air to meet […]
9 July 2017
It was a lazy morning with a late breakfast or brunch until our check-out at 1200. We shared transport with a fellow diver from China. The seat-in-coach arrangement was RM20pp and only a fraction of what the hotel charges! We got to the airport about 2h before departure for Kota Kinabalu and killed some time […]