Trekkers Lodge Kinabatangan
Travel Blogs from Kinabatangan District
Tired and Dazed
Arrived in KL with no idea how to get to the hostel Nic & Tommy had recommended to me, or an address. So first stop, after having to catch a monorail to pick up my luggage, was to buy a Lonely Planet for South East Asia and find a tourist information place. Having done both, and additionally used Burger Kings internet service i set off for the …
How to look up a coffee shop on a map
... etwas zu tun haben würde. In den meisten Fällen ist das sogar ganz gut, man lernt was dazu. Aber ab und zu zeigt es einen auch, dass man mit seinen Vorurteilen bestimmten Menschen gegenüber nicht immer falsch gelegen ha t…
Und am Ende möchte ich dann noch den malaysischen Zoll würdigen. Ich würde dies nicht tun, wenn man es für nötig gehalten hätte, auf meine Beschwerde zu reagieren. Ich mag Malaysia, ich glaube, in 20 Jahren oder so wäre ...
Jungle walking
... you'll be pleased to know mum ;-)) I managed to avoid the leaches! About 5 people found then on themselves but no one was bitten. However, I'm hoping to do more jungle walking in my time here so I may not yet be out of the woods (unintentional pun ;-)).
After the night walks we went back to our open air huts to sleep on a mattress on the floor with a mosquito net over us. The sounds of ...
Swimming by the coral reef in the south china sea
... of a film. We hired snorkelling equipment and bought an underwater camera and went out swimming to find the coral reefs, I have been snorkelling in the Caribbean before but I have never seen anything like this, it was the most amazing experience I have ever had. Literally thousands of fish of every colour, shape and size were surrounding and following us, some were illuminious, multi coloured, stripey and spotty and we saw what ...
Wildlife spotting on the Kinabatangan River
... lodge we had out briefing and got shown to our chalet. To describe it as basic was an understatement! There was hardly any room for our bags and it was dark, but it all added to our jungle experience. Soon after we had our first river cruise lasting 2 hours. In our group was 2 Belgians, 2 Swiss, 2 Aussies, 1 Thai, 1 Canadian and 2 massively gay Japs! Imagine the gay Asian guy out of hangover x2. Anyway 15 mins in we saw our first rare sighting, a ...