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Terwit Tewau
Looking at the map you'll see that we have covered a fair distance since our last blog. In the last few days we have left the sprawling city of Mataram on Lombok and via Java and Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo) ended up in the Malaysian province of Sabah in Eastern Malaysian Borneo. For those of you expecting a few more weeks of Indonesian blogs, I …
Justins Nunukan!
... on the floor for me and I crashed out.
Not a great night's sleep with dogs barking, mosquitoes and prayer calls from the mosque early in the morning. Justin made me breakfast before taking me into town to sort some stuff out, had lunch a local Warung which served Sulawesi food, a sort of beef soup with rice packaged in leaves. My ferry was leaving in the evening and at 5pm Justin took me to the port. I said goodbye to his wife and kids and thanked them for they had done for ...
In Malaysia
no boat again to tawau, so we decide to risk and we sail back to tarakan and go straight to the airtport. we are lucky, there is a flight to tawau and in tawau we buy a new flight to Kuala Lumpur.
the 20 august flight to KL has been missed and lost our money. thanks ramadan
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Bali death #2, finally...
... allows them to practice this interesting form of burial because its scent counter acts the smell of the rotting corpse. Understand, we looked it up and saw some pictures of skulls, but I am thinking it is staged or just an old thing they used to do in the past. We were cornered by the boat hustler to take us over to see this deal prior to heading down to the village. We drove down the delapidated road past people farming and even plowing a field with cows and ...
Visa Day
... atm and then back again in the taxi to the embassy. Ballache. We got back around 8:40 and the booth was open. We filled in various forms and handed over our photos, the bloke said it would take between 1 and 2 hours. No way were we making the boat, the bloke kindly let Charlotte borrow his mobile so we could book another night in the same hotel.
There was nothing around the embassy so we had to sit watching ...