Day 151 - 22/07/08 After the yesterday's disaster, managed to catch my flight this morning to Kuching in Borneo, thankfully! I'm now in the land of the head-hunters. When I say head-hunters I don't mean this in a corporate recruitment sense (I'm sure you know that). Borneo is famous for native tribal warriors who cut off the heads of their enem...

This past week has been a huge pain in my *ss. I had a bad feeling about getting a visa when I was reading about how hard a time people were having trying to get a China visa before the Olympics, but I wasn't nearly worried enough. I should have taken care of it in Singapore before I left. At least in a civilized society, you can negotiate or re...

Awake early, well at 7am with about 20 cockrills crowing to all outdo each other. Nearly every household has ducks, chickens, cats and dogs. Apparently they all wander about but return to their own house at feeding times. We had some breakfast although it was difficult to find room. Very tasty noodles with hard boiled egg to bind everything toge...

Petite visite dans la looooongue maison-village au Sud de Kuching. On nous explique le mode de vie : "Huha! Huha! Huha!" Le chef de Ngemah Longhouse, Juan, fils de Belulok, s'exclame em levant son verre de Tuak, le vin de riz local... Les esprits nous survolent pendant cette procession. Ce soir, la douceur du vin de riz remplira nos veines, et n...

Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, a waterfront promenade, upmarket tourist shopping centres, old Chinese temples and cultural museums, the guides describe it as a great lace to spend a few days 'exploring'. My verdict, it a nice city and the riverfront is quite pretty but there's not much to see here. Sorry to disappoint you :( Due to being unabl...

the 4x4 gangs from Taiyo... using 4x4 trucks, convoy to Puncak Borneo. Visited the hot spring and waterfall.

Hi All, Hopefully this will be a faster way to send these pictures to everyone at once. These are from the 3rd Anniversary Dinner Dance of my Saturday Hash Group. As all of their functions are..it was a lot of fun...even tho what they call dancing is awful!! I've summed it up like this. In NY, the dancing is great, but the people leave a lot to ...

My dear audience (Mum and Dad)! Sorry for the late update, and man it seems like a lot has happened since then! So we caught our morning bus to the east coast town of Mersing on the 27th. Settled in for a nice lunch and waited forever for a jetty across to our destination ABC Beach, Tioman Island. By this time it was looking unlikely that we had...

Arrived in Kuching at 5am, after a reasonable journey, still asleep and in the middle of nowhere. Got ripped off by the taxi driver before checking into the hostel and sleeping until 10:30. Grabbed the top bunks to be as close to the fans as possible as it was a sauna in the dorm. Met up with Julia (she had flown in from KL yesterday, didn't fan...