This post is part of our wild adventure to Malaysian Borneo. In case you don’t want to read this sequentially, or you are looking for a specific part of the trip, here are some shortcuts: Kota Kinabalu Sepilok Kinabatangan Lahad Datu Danum Valley <– You are here Getting to Danum Valley Our journey from Lahad […]
This post is part of our wild adventure to Malaysian Borneo. In case you don’t want to read this sequentially, or you are looking for a specific part of the trip, here are some shortcuts: Kota Kinabalu Sepilok Kinabatangan <– You are here Lahad Datu Danum Valley Getting to Kinabatangan Nature Lodge The journey from […]
This post is part of our wild adventure to Malaysian Borneo. In case you don’t want to read this sequentially, or you are looking for a specific part of the trip, here are some shortcuts: Kota Kinabalu Sepilok <– You are here Kinabatangan Lahad Datu Danum Valley The flight from Kota Kinabalu was quick, and […]
After the Cameron Highlands, the plan was to spend two days in Penang, exploring Georgetown, Penang’s historic capital city which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and sampling street food from this renowned foodie paradise. The drive from Cameron Highlands to Penang took about four hours. As we descended from the highlands, we passed […]
We had two requirements for our Christmas vacation: one, travel to a new country and two, photograph something. This is how we wound up in Uganda. Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa, bordered by Kenya, South Sudan, the Congo, Rwanda, and Tanzania. It is about the size of Arizona in the United States, […]
(Location: Bali, Indonesia) I’ve always been intrigued by Bali, though I’m not sure why. It’s fairly easy to get to from Australia – a five hour flight, and only a two hour time difference. Rather than try to rush around and see the whole island, we spent all four nights in Ubud. It’s a little […]
(Location: Borneo, Indonesia) We saw a documentary on orangutans, and it was filmed at “Camp Leakey.” Some googling revealed that was located in the Indonesian part of Borneo. This is how we found ourselves on a klotok on the Sekonyer River looking for orangutans. It was another insane travel day to get from Cambodia to […]
When we booked the trip to the Pantanal, we were “upsold” to spend a few days at another one of the owner’s properties. He promised maned wolves, a macaw hide, and nut-cracking capuchin monkeys, so we decided to give it a go. From the Pantanal (Cuiaba airport), we flew to Brasisila, and then drove four […]
For Christmas 2009, we traveled to Japan with two targets: snow monkeys and red crowned cranes. I’ll leave the birds for a separate post. We flew from Chicago to Tokyo on JAL, and got a screaming deal of first class tickets with points. It was Christmas day and the airport was deserted. We were the […]