Tag: treking
Climbing Mt Fuji in Japan: one summer tale
Think Japan and probably sooner than later Mt Fuji will come up. Legendary as this mountain is we were thrilled about being able to see it, hopefully take some good pictures and maybe even climb it? With this in mind we arrived to Shizuoka, the city with a bullet train stop closest to Mt Fuji, [...]
Climbing Kota Kinabalu in Sabah, Malaysia
Getting to KK from Brunei is best done by catching a ferry to Labuan Island and then another to mainland Malaysia, either straight to KK or via Menumbok and a bus to KK which is what we had to do. KK doen’t have good value hostels, but if you look thoroughly you will find a [...]
Niah Caves in Miri, Malaysia
Niah caves are 132 km South of Miri, which is an 8 hour bus ride north of Sibu. General consensus is that it is best to visit the second largest cave system in Malaysia with an organized tour from Miri because of costs and transportation, so why do anything else? That was our plan…which we [...]
Orangutans and proboscis monkeys in Kuching, Borneo
I have only been in Malaysian Borneo for 24 hours and have already seen more orangutans in the wild than I ever have in a zoo. Kuching, the capital city of Sarawak state in Borneo is home to the Semengogh Wilfdlife Reserve, a sanctuary with the purpose of rehabilitating troubled animals of the state. They [...]
