It’s day 166 of our round-the-world trip, and our last weekend in California. Though it’s a fairly chilly afternoon, we drove to Muir Woods National Monument in Marin County, a primeval forest named after naturalist John Muir. The average age of this forest’s resident redwoods are 500-800 years old. The oldest is about 1,200 years…
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Snapshot Saturday: Morning Monkey Business
Man, ain’t that the cutest nose ever?!I shrieked as we chanced upon a bunch of proboscis monkeys, freely wandering and having brekkie by the beach. We were then striding towards our chosen forest trail for a morning hike in Bako National Park, Sarawak’s oldest national park, Borneo. I shrieked some more, and jumped, and sobbed…
Snapshot Saturday: Out On A Limb
A two-month preggy backpacker up on a limb along the coast of Pulau Mamutik.It’s almost Valentine’s Day folks! Last year we spent it camping on Pulau Mamutik, Kota Kinabalu. Where will you be spending yours? This year I’ll be romancing Batanes with fellow bloggers, thanks to Seair for the free winter tour! TweetShare This page…
Snapshot Saturday: The Cliff And I
Snapshot Saturday: Staircase To A Crater
Snapshot Saturday: Paco Park
Paco Park, view from the top of its thick adobe walls.What used to be a municipal cemetery during Spanish colonial period is now a park frequented by young dating couples from surrounding universities. Its charming old St. Pancratius Chapel, more popularly known as Paco Park Church, is a top fave for intimate weddings. It is…
Koh Phi Phi Lei
There’s no way you can keep it out of Lonely Planet, and once that happens it’s countdown to dooms day – says one of the characters in the movie ‘The Beach’. Although the popular novel (turned into a Hollywood movie) by Alex Garland is set in Thailand, it’s been rumored that the actual inspiration for…
Koh Phi Phi Don
Gunung Bromo
Backpacking Borneo: Bako National Park
Bako National Park can make you feel like you’re on the set of ‘Lost’, with its a la choose-your-own-adventure trails. It is Sarawak’s oldest national park, gazetted as a protected area in 1957. It covers an area of 2,727 hectares (with an incredible variety of plant species) at the tip of the Muara Tebas peninsula.