MARVELS OF MINGUN Rather than spend our last day in Mandalay in the city proper, we decided to take a boat ride across the mighty Irrawaddy River to visit the small township of Mingun. There are a few sights in Mandalay we skipped including the concrete reconstruction of […]
JUNGLE TREKS & NIGHT SAFARI ADVENTURES IN KINABATANGAN The Kinabatangan River collects water from the highlands of Northern Borneo then snakes through Sabah’s lowlands for 560kms before reaching the Sulu Sea. Along its length the river supports a wide variety of mammal and birdlife, and remains one of […]
WILDLIFE OF KINABATANGAN Borneo boasts one of the most biodiverse equatorial habitats in the world; its also home to one of the oldest and most impenetrable rainforests in the world. Which is why for most people Borneo evokes images of dense jungles, hidden animals, and head-hunting natives living […]
THE WILD MAN OF BORNEO The word “orangutang” is derived from the Bahasa (i.e. Malay/Indonesian) words “orang” meaning “man”, and “hutan” meaning “forest”. This wild man of the Bornean rainforest is the main reason we wanted to come to this island, and today we were fortunate enough to […]
WETLAND WANDERINGS Borneo is the third largest non-continental island in the world, and a haven for a whole host of jungle animals – including orangutans, proboscis monkeys, macaques, langurs, Pygmy elephants, turtles, crocodiles, water buffalo, and thousands of different species of birds. It’s a veritable tropical Eden with […]
Wandering Soles 