11Aug

Malaysia – 2008

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In which we go up the East Coast of Malaysia, to Perhentian, Terengganu, the Cameron Highlands and experience a little more Singapore…

07May

Cycling Vietnam

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Pete, a friend from New Zealand recently joined me for a 2 week cycling trip in North-west Vietnam…

02May

Easter 2008

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For several weeks from February to early April we both spent time back in New Zealand…

20Dec

Sabah

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As a port of entry to Sabah, Labuan is not a good advertisement for the region…

15Dec

Kinabalu Park

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Kinabalu National Park is a World Heritage Site, -because of its mountain, its wildlife and especially, its vegetation…

WARNING: This story contains multiple images of an explicit botanical nature! 

09Dec

Kinabalu

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Mt Kinabalu is the highest point between the Himalayas and PNG.

11Nov

Brunei

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It was just a short day-trip from Miri in Sarawak to Kuala Belait in Brunei.

11Nov

Sarawak

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We approached the entrance to the Santubong River in the early hours of the morning, and the hills arose out of the morning mist; we had spent a night sailing slowly across the wide bay to ensure that we would arrive after daylight.

11Nov

Tioman

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The work all completed and our land travel done we set out again from Singapore, eager to be back cruising.

10Nov

Malaysia 2007

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 As our Singapore News story has told, 2007 hasn’t proven to be the year of fine time cruising that we had hoped!