The captain – or pilot? – of our flying coffin to Belaga is manoeuvring steadily through the rapids. When the river gets too wild, we – the white people, are asked to go back inside. In retrospect, it isn’t all that wild and after an hour we can enjoy fresh air on the roof, away from the wrestling DVDs. Around…
In the meantime we have travelled the majority of stretches by bus and decide to use the boats on the Rejang River to explore the interior of Sarawak. To reach the Sungei Rejang we first drive to Sibu where we arrange boat tickets to Kapit, climb a beautiful Chinese pagoda and are the attraction of the evening when we gather…
At the moment we booked late flight to Kuching we realized that after arrival we might have to spend the night at the airport. The delay ultimately leaves us little choice and after arrival we spot a few seats in the departure hall secure our backpacks to so we can sleep for a few hours. There are no buses to…
We cannot believe our eyes as on the evening we want to celebrate our four month travel anniversary with a nice cold beer in the headquarters of the Bako National Park on Borneo, the fridge is filled with the Dutch Oranjeboom beer. But we will talk about Bako and Kuching later, first a small review of four months of traveling.…
As Budget-minded we became over several months of traveling, we choose to travel from Mersing to Singapore with the cheapest operator at the bus station and pay only 16 Ringgit per person instead of 60 Ringgit. The luxurious option would have brought us to downtown Singapore within 2.5 hours, the budget trip turned out slightly different: – 12:00 pm: Bus…