Telang Usan Hotel
Travel Blogs from Miri
Noodle Madness
... ins Zelt. Es ist allerdings recht heiß und dadurch wachen wir auch schon früh wieder auf. Der Tag besteht aus warten. Zunächst auf den Bus vom Nationalpark in die Stadt, dann auf ein Taxi. So bringen wir den halben Tag rum. Danach kaufen wir uns eine Stirnlampe und Christoph trinkt eine Kokosnuss, die größer als sein Kopf ist. Den weiteren Tag machen wir Spaziergänge. Genauer: einen. Dieser Gewaltmarsch ist leider nicht von Erfolg gekrönt, da die Brücke, die wir suchen ...
Buses, Boarders & Bizarre Rules
... to a junction in the middle of nowhere and then a taxi onto the park itself. On the way back of course we would be doing the same route in reverse. On the way out the very friendly laundry lad from next door that I had met the night previous advised us rather than walking all the way to the local station there was a bus stop closer that we could catch the bus to the long distance station from. Magically just as we got there the bus we needed ...
Our first holiday!
... beautiful but Jacob and I decided to visit the furthest caves which were a 10km walk there and back but up and down very steep hills and steps, not to mention through small spaces and dark caves. (Mum you would be proud!)
We set off with our torches and water and after a very long and tiring hike we got to see the cave paintings. Jacob still had energy and walked around looking for 'volcano rocks'.
Our journey back was a more relaxed ...
Landed in Malaysia
Tyler and I leave Vietnam and head to Malaysia. Our morning flight from Ho Chi Minh to Kuala Lumpur was on time and and we landed in KL at 130pm. Our flight to Miri left at 430pm so we figured we'd have lots of leisure time. Well... we used the web check in the night before so we just went to the baggage drop off counter, just like we did when leaving Ho Chi Minh. We ended up in line behind ...
Joys of Travel: Getting stuck in the wrong place
... very top of Borneo, I could
not make a reservation for a return flight, because it was too late, or something.
Couldn't make the reservation in Bario, because I did not have enough ringit,
the local currency, and they don't take Visa at the Bario airport. That would
take electricity.
So I has a very nice 2.5 days in the spectacular NP, and a somewhat less
spectacular, okay, largely boring 30.0 days in BSB, the Brunei capital city.
...