Exploring Bangkok, Thailand’s capital city. In Bangkok for brief 3-day stopover, en route to Phuket, we opted for a half-day guided tour to see and learn as much as possible about this exotic city (an inexpensive offer booked on spec at the airport, which turned out to be an excellent…
Tangsi Beach (Pantai Pink) is a beautiful place to visit in Lombok. Pink Beach can be reached by boat from the harbour beside Tanjung Luar Fish Market, this makes the most beautiful day trip. Our second day day in Lombok and we were up before dawn, the haunting sound of…
Lombok, Indonesia, Southeast Asia. Gliding through the ocean on our improvised ‘taxi’, a small longtail boat, Juan and I left the white sands of Gili Meno Island for the short trip across the waters to Lombok. From the sanctuary of our fabulous desert island retreat, I’d gazed across the straits…
Exploring Bangkok for the first time on a visit to Thailand. Bangkok is amazing, a fascinating city full of contrasts, the traditional and the trendy living side-by-side in apparent harmony. We arrived at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport on a direct flight from Spain – the 15 hours that just flew…
Gili Meno Island, Lombok, Indonesia. Gili Meno is a tiny island in Indian Ocean where it meets the Pacific by the Wallace Line, a few kilometres off the northwest coast of Lombok and 35 kilometres east of Bali; sometimes called ‘Robinson Crusoe Island’, it’s just like a castaway island…fabulous, fine white…
Kuching, Sarawak (Borneo) I was actually going to Borneo! A vast, remote, exotic island full of adventure stories with headhunting tribes and blow darts…hey, wake me up I must be dreaming! Borneo pertains, as if it’s sliced across the middle lengthwise, to two nations – Malaysia and Indonesia. The Malaysian…
The northern bank of Borneo’s River Sarawak is rural with a small Kampung village. Sites of interest on the hill overlooking Kuching Waterfront include Fort Margherita, Sarawak State Legislative Assembly and Astana Palace.
We crossed back over the River Sarawak on the little ferry to Kuching city, in time for a Santubong sunset cruise, that I’d booked at a waterfront tour office, to see the Sarawak lowlands and the wildlife of Santubong Peninsula. Santubong River Sunset Cruise from Kuching (Borneo) A minibus took…
Bako National Park, Sarawak’s (and indeed Borneo’s) oldest national park, is a rainforest nature reserve, jutting into the China Sea.
Bau, Sarawak, Borneo. Hearing that we wanted to explore beyond the typical tourists spots in Kuching, Lucy, one of the friendly staff in our hotel, Sarakraf Pavilion, offered to take us out for the day – best friend Jennifer borrowed her mother’s car and the two of them took us off…
