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INDONESIA | Sunday, 26 Aug 2007 | Views [2512] | Comments [1]
Bali is a small island with a large appetite. If you're not careful it can swallow you whole before spitting out a financially poorer, but experience richer you. This place seems to have everything: isolated bays to built up towns, hawkers to whores, ... Read more >
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SINGAPORE | Saturday, 11 Aug 2007 | Views [1237]
What images does Singapore evoke for you? Skyscrapers, cheap electronic goods, tiger beer, Raffles, a former British colony, a well placed island? I had an 8 hour journey from KL to form an opinion. Strict rules, clean, modern, diverse and just starting ... Read more >
Tags: island, wildlife
MALAYSIA | Friday, 3 Aug 2007 | Views [1651] | Comments [1]
To say that I've been looking forward to this is an understatement. The diving at Sipadan and nearby Mabul is often described as some of the best in the world. How does the reality stand-up? The little town of Semporna is the main base for diving ... Read more >
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MALAYSIA | Friday, 20 Jul 2007 | Views [1656]
I now know what the people from Brunei do at the weekends - they go to the Malaysian islands just offshore, including this one. Booze here is very cheap. I've come for the wreck diving though. Labuan is tax haven that's had loads of money shoved into ... Read more >
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MALAYSIA | Saturday, 7 Jul 2007 | Views [1262] | Comments [1]
OK, how's this for a moan. I'm coming down with a cold, i woke up this morning with such a bad back that i could hardly move, (bad mattress, wrongly performed stretching, too long carrying the backpack, sitting all day on buses, being jolted by the ... Read more >
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MALAYSIA | Thursday, 28 Jun 2007 | Views [3825] | Comments [2]
I fly into Penang because I want to avoid all the insurgents and trouble in the south of Thailand. If the Bangkok Post is to believed, the pulling-up of train lines is now a regular occurrence. It's not only the west that has this problem. The island ... Read more >
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THAILAND | Sunday, 24 Jun 2007 | Views [2616] | Comments [1]
I'm 20m under the sea, there are five, 2m long, grey reef sharks swimming within a few meters of me, and my instructor is trying to encourage them to come closer by making noises with a plastic bottle. Noooooooo! doesn't she realise sharks scare ... Read more >
Tags: diving, island, motorbiking
THAILAND | Tuesday, 15 May 2007 | Views [3184]
2 weeks in Phuket - a lot can happen in 2 weeks. You could get rained on everyday, learn to sail, nearly crash a motorbike, run over a monitor lizard, get passage to Singapore by crewing on a sailboat, or have a pass made at you by a 59 year old, rich ... Read more >
Tags: island, motorbiking, sailing
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