If you want to see what makes Ubud so special, you should go take a hike. Seriously, you should get out of the busy downtown full of tourists and go on a walk through the forest and rice fields all around Ubud. It’s easy to do and there are plenty of choices. One of our […]
Going on a safari in Africa is an amazing experience and there are many places to choose from. Chobe National Park in Northern Botswana is one of those choices and, despite having been on a few safaris, it offered something new and unique: We were able to watch wildlife not only on game drives in
One of the most captivating destination on our tour of Southern Africa (overview here) was the Okavango Delta. It is one of those places that captures your imagination, awes you with the experience and leaves you clinging on till the last minute, not wanting to leave. Yet it is hard to describe what really makes
On our tour of Southern Africa (overview here), Etosha National Park was one of my favorite stops and the one destination, I’d be most likely to send my parents to: Why, you might ask, when there were so many amazing destinations on that trip? Not only do you get so see amazing wildlife, it is
If you have nature and adventure on your mind and you want to see wildlife in as untouched an environment as possible, then Borneo is a great destination. While you can now explore Malaysian Borneo easily from the two main cities, Kota Kinabalu in Sabah (read here), and Kuching in Sarawak (read here), it does
If during your stay in Kuching you haven’t had your fill of wildlife watching after Bako National Park and Semmengoh Wildlife Center, you should add the Kuching Wetlands National Park to your list. The park has mangroves along a network of rivers near the ocean with a chance to see proboscis monkeys, macaques, silver leaf
Bako National Park is one of the top attractions in Sarawak, Borneo, and was high on my list! It turned out to be the favorite tour of my trip to Borneo – that’s high praise, considering I went from one natural wonder to the next in Northern and Southern Borneo! Part of that amazing experience
The Semenggoh Wildlife Center has been handling orphaned or rescued Orang Utan for more than 30 years and currently has 37 Orang Utan in the area, 16 of them having been born at the center. The oldes one, a female, is 44 years old, has 3 offspring and 3 “grandchildren” already! The oldest male and
The Sarawak Museum is close to downtown Kuching, a short stroll from Merdaka Square. It’s housed in a historic buiding from 1891 and covers a number of different topics. The one that made the trip worth it for me was an excellent exhibit about the traditional longhouses so typical for the inhabitants of Borneo. On the
When I first researched visiting Borneo, I looked at Kota Kinabalu in Sabah and Kuching, Sarawak as the base for my exploration – and ended up going to Sabah first, because it seemed to offer more and to be easier to visit – you can read about it here. While Kuching is not as popular
On my first visit to Borneo, I visited the Orang Utan Rehabilitation Center in Sepilok and the rain forest in Danum Valley, skipping Mount Kinabalu – and I felt bad about it! It’s the highest peak between the Himalayas and New Guinea at 4,095m, Malaysia’s first UNESCO World Heritage site (since 2000) and even gave
Since I was a little boy, Borneo had a special ring for me – the ring of adventure and nature untouched. Stories of headhunters, reports of untouched rainforest and Orang Utans in the wild, it all added up to a world so far from what I grew up in. And once you travel to Bangkok,