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The Planning of the Sabah Trip – Costs and Itinerary

Earlier in the year I went for a 5 day trip to Sabah, you might remember I posted a picture of Jackie the Orang Utan when I got back. Well now I think it’s time I started writing about it. We started out by asking around for a good agent, as we had a limited [...]

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I’m Back from Sabah – Meet Jackie

Will post some pictures soon, gotta get all the clothes to the laundry and tidy up the house a bit, load up all the photos (lucky my PSD has Firewire!) and a few other things I need to do. Just a taster – Meet Jackie. Jackie is a fairly domesticated Orang-Utan in Sabah near to [...]

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In the shadow of Kinabalu!

Just reached Kinabalu Pine Lodge, had a shower and backed up the days pictures to my nifty Nexto Di PSD. It’s pretty cool here, literally not figuratively speaking. There’s no need for aircon and the small fan isn’t switched on. Looking forwards to some nice steamboat for dinner to warm me up! The lodge is [...]

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Sandakan is beautiful

It’s really beautiful here, fluffy white clouds and endless blue skies. We spent the weekend checking out the proboscis monkeys and yesterday with the orang utans at the sepilok sanctuary. Today will check out a bit more of sandaka before heading to the airport for a flight to kk. Then a nice seafood lunch at [...]

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Sabahan Tapai – It’s Good Stuff and it’s not Tuak!

So one of Pats’ friends came back from Sabah I think, or somewhere over that side of East Malaysia, and brought is a bottle of Tapai, or local Rice Wine (Tuak is from Sarawak right?). You can buy it for a small fortune in some posh bars in Bangsar, which will give you a headache..but [...]

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