Tagged With "Sarawak"
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 14, 2014: River Boats, Sarawak
Seems as if PortMoresby has an affinity for blue boats!
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 14, 2014: River Boats, Sarawak
It appears so. But there are worse things one could choose.
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Re: Gallery: Borneo, Market in Sibu
You can always get me with a market, but this one was especially interesting because of the display of canned goods. Living in a neighborhood with many Caribbean, Asian and South Asian neighbors, I see some of those brands and products in our local fruit stands and small groceries. Truly "world food!"
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Re: Borneo: A Small Town, More Boats & the Rain Forest of Sarawak
Wow!,those views from The Pelagus Resort are incredible
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Re: Borneo: A Small Town, More Boats & the Rain Forest of Sarawak
Little by little, you're eating away at my resistance to trans-Pacific flying... You always seem to find the best-arranged markets, and the most enticing views of everything else, everywhere!
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 21, 2014: Headhunters, Borneo
Hmm, guess this just isn't a war trophy kind of crowd. Or maybe you had to be there.
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Re: Borneo: Last Stop, Kuching
In all my travels to SE Asia, I haven't made it to Borneo yet. You describe it just as I imagined it to be.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 14, 2014: River Boats, Sarawak
These graceful boats are tied up at a dock in Kapit, up the Batang Rejang, the Rejang River, 3 hours or so in an express boat from the South China Sea. The pictures are part of a series you’ll see here in the weeks to come about my...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 28, 2014: Tua Pek Kong Temple, Kuching
Kuching, in Malaysian Borneo, was founded by an adventurous Englishman, Rajah James Brooke, on the Sarawak River that was the only access to the interior of that part of Borneo. He encouraged Chinese traders from the earliest days to do...
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Gallery: Borneo, Market in Sibu
I flew from Kota Kinabalu, KK in local parlance, northern Borneo in the State of Sabah, Malaysia, to Sibu in Sarawak, for the sole purpose of traveling by public express boat up the Batang Rajang, the river that serves as the primary highway...
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 21, 2014: Headhunters, Borneo
To view any society one dimensionally makes no sense, of course, except maybe for the sake of a good headline (pun intended). The people of Borneo were, however, sometimes prone to settling disputes with warfare that included collecting...
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Borneo: A Small Town, More Boats & the Rain Forest of Sarawak
After a 3 hour trip by express boat from Sibu up the Batang Rejang, the longest river in Borneo, travel pal Jim and I arrived in Kapit. I liked the look of the place immediately. The plan was to spend a few days in this riverside...
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Borneo: Last Stop, Kuching
The impetus for my trip to Borneo came, as it often does for me, from a casual reference or suggestion, in this case both. First was a phrase I’d seen in passing, "White Rajas of Borneo". Then the simple statement by a...