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Batu Caves and Busy Busy Busy!

Sorry for the lack of updates but what with this and that and my Mom AND my Aunt being here, I haven’t really had time to sit at the computer. And it’s tiring entertaining all the time! Enjoyable, but tiring nevertheless. I leave you with a picture from our trip up Batu Caves yesterday night. […]

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Sepilok Jungle Resort – Checking in And Relaxing & Review

So we arrived at Sepilok Jungle Resort in the middle of the afternoon, we had some time to relax. We took dinner at the restaurant inhouse – it was actually pretty good and quite cheap. I love this fern they serve there, they call it Sabah Vege (Sayur Manis) – delicious! Anyway we had some […]

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The Final Morning at Labuk Bay Resort & The Trip Back to Sandakan

So after our previous day in Labuk Bay Resort we got up early for breakfast and glorious sunshine. Yeah it was real hot! Feeding time was around 11am, we already had plenty of pictures though so we just enjoyed the natural habitat. The turn-out wasn’t as good as the previous day anyway (it wasn’t that […]

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Labuk Bay Resort – Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary – After Lunch

So after a short rest from morning feeding (time to copy the pictures to my Nexto PSD) it was off out to another location for lunch. We headed out in the muddy yet reliable truck, you can see the storm in the distance that we drove into.. The place we had lunch was really in […]

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Labuk Bay Resort – Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary – Sandakan, Sabah

So we arrived in Sabah to rain sadly, we got there quite early in the morning direct to Sandakan from KL and were picked up promptly by our first guide Adam – a very knowledgeable local tribal guy from the Sandakan area (I forget which tribe he was from, but he said they were river […]

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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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Lower Wick Pitch and Putt – Some Yummy Food and Goodbye UK!

Every Sunday it was tradition for my and my homeboy Chiu to go down to Lower Wick driving range and have a round on the Pitch and Putt (when I used to live in Worcester). It’s a pretty effective use of space with the driving range in the middle and the short 9 hole course […]

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Blackpool Pleasure Beach! Pepsi Max Big One, Infusion and Bling!

So after our quiet relaxing trip to Formby, we headed on up to Blackpool – the thrill center and most famous seaside resort in the UK. The most famous part being Pleasure Beach Blackpool, with the Pepsi Max Big One, which used to be the tallest, fastest and steepest roller coaster of any park in […]

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A Trip Up North – Formby Red Squirrels & On To Blackpool!

So after being all the way down South in Minehead and Dunster we headed back home to Worcester. Then all the way up North to Liverpool! We were heading to the Lake District – one of the most beautiful places in the world, but the weather was rather threatening so we decided it might not […]

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A Round of Mini-Golf and a Cream Tea in Dunster!

After A Trip Up The Hill and a Ride on West Somerset Steam Railway the next morning we started off with a solid English Breakfast again, this time we had the full works with Black Pudding! Unfortunately this was the only food shot I took at my aunt’s place in Minehead…she’s such a superb cook […]

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