Apollo Hotel Miri
4 South Yu Seng Rd. Miri, Sarawak, Malaysia
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Miri Miri In Sarawak, Not The Fairest of Them All
Up early for the 9:00am bus to Miri. Checked out of the hotel, bought some breakfast for the journey, purchased our ticket and we were away. The journey was passable. Long and boring and the suspension on the bus was ****** so it was a pretty bumpy ride, but I read abit and slept abit and we watched the end of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Alan stressed about his laptop having a virus and the time passed somehow.
When we arrived in Miri ...
Joys of Travel: Getting stuck in the wrong place
... br>
I mention all this because there are hundreds, thousands of
folks trying to get out of Bangkok right now. The main int'l a/p
is still open, but things are going south fast. 500+ dead now,
nationwide.
What to do if you get stuck in a deteriorating situation?
Some Austin Airwaves Advice:
Stay in contact with your people. Mobile/text, email, phone.
Sat phones are nice, and the price has been coming down...
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Biggest sweat
... a little, get an excellent ice cream and end up having a drink in some nice place. We decide to test a place for dinner specialized in Satays. The place is full, packed...good sign!! No more table for us! We forgot it's Ramadan and as soon as the sun sets everybody is out for dinner. We finally get a table but on the side of the road...actually it's more like in the middle of the road, on a concrete island between the 4 mains lanes!!!! It's a bit like having dinner in the middle of ...
Lambir Hills national Park
... won’t care what the view looks like as you will be so tired! Plus the little triangle on the map maybe should have indicated to us that the walk was up a mountain? So we naively went along the "superb view walk". It was extremely difficult many many root step hills and lots of old rotting wooden steps to climb. We saw some funny termites on the way, millions of them eating this poor tree. At the 400 metre sign we couldn’t believe there was still 1.2km to go! But we persisted ...
Lambir Hills National Park
... From here we set off on the second trail, the main one to Bukit Pantu, the nearest peak to the Park HQ and some one and a half hours in length, from the waterfall.
Having gone some distance, just under 2.7 km to be precise, the sky darkened and the heavens opened, making sure-footing very tricky indeed.
Fortunately we had invested in new waterproof capes, costing less than a pound each – but we might as well have not ...


