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Sabah – Kota Kinabalu / Mount Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu The Capital town in Sabah is Kota Kinabalu (or simply K.K) and it has about 200,000 citizens.The citizens are mainly Malay, Chinese, and immigrants from the Philippines.K.K is of course the starting point for further jungle adventures in Sabah, and to get permission to access Mount Kinabalu. Mount Kinabalu The mountain Mount Kinabalu is the highest mountain in South East Asia standing at 4101m.The mountain is located in the middle of Kinabalu National Park. To climb up the […]

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Bako National Park

The first national park in Sarawak is named Bako and was founded in 1957.Bako is located on an island about 40 km. north of Kuching and consists of 27 km2 untouched tropical rainforest.There are 16 marked trails with a total length of more than 30 km.To get there you can take a boat from Kampong Bako which will take you about 30 min.We also hired a guide out to Bako.

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Borneo

Borneo – the name itself has an exotic sound. The world’s 3rd largest Island which the greatest part belongs to Indonesia, but also shares the island with Malaysia and Brunei. Malaysia and little Brunei are located at the north part of Borneo. In Borneo there are two states that belong to Malaysia, it is Sabah at the north east side and Sarawak at the north west side. Sarawak Kuching The name of the largest town in Sarawak is Kuching (Kuching means […]

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Saigon

Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) has 9 millions citizens.Add to that about 2.5 million of mopeds/motorcycles. One advantage of that is that the city is not as polluted as for example Bangkok.The traffic is very hectic. To go from one side of the street to the other side is a big achievement.You can not stay and wait for someone to stop and let you pass, you must slowly go forward without stopping or going back!This is what you […]

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Hoi An

We bought bus tickets to Hoi An in Saigon. These are “open tickets” where you decide your final destination of the bus trip. On the way to your destination the bus stops in different cities and you can stay there for several days. The night before you want to depart again you just tell them and then you can go on further to your final stop the next morning. After some days we stayed in Hoi An, in central Vietnam.The bus […]

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Hué

Note: This trip was made in 2001 Hué has about 250000 citizens and is known as the old imperial town. Here 13 Emperors have reigned during 1802 to 1945. The largest places of interest in the area are the old Emperor tombs. In November 1999 the whole town was below water when a huge flood hit some parts of Vietnam. The city is split in two sections by the Parfyme River. We really recommend a boattrip at the Parfyme River. […]

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