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Tag Archives: Borneo

Warts and all: what it was REALLY like travelling with kids

For the past few weeks I’ve been an imposter, of the blogging kind. Steve and I have been holidaying in Malaysia (hello, if you’ve been following!), tripping about with our four-year-old-twins. It seemed like a good time to turn Raising Explorers into a travel blog, just for a while, to try to pass myself off…

August 8, 2013 in Family, Malaysia, Travel Destinations.

Orang-utans, Headhunters, and a Fairy Cave: Top 5 things to do around Kuching, Sarawak

Kuching, in the state of Sarawak in Malaysian Borneo, is a fantastic place to visit with kids. Not only does the city itself offer an array of activities – I wrote about them in my post about the Top 5 things to do in Kuching – but there are some brilliant things to see and…

July 31, 2013 in Family, Malaysia, Travel Destinations.

Kuching? Ka-Chow! Top 5 things to do in Kuching, Borneo

As our plane rose into the dusky evening over Kuching, bound for Penang, four-year-old Blake gazed wistfully out of the window, and said, “Oh, I miss Ka-Ching.” It’s that kind of place. The river flows quietly by, the people smile and say hello as you pass them in the street, and dozens of cat statues…

July 29, 2013 in Family, Malaysia, Travel Destinations.

Dolphins, monkeys, and fireflies… and why do we need a life jacket?

Still in Sarawak, Borneo, our first night in the cabin at Permai Rainforest was spent listening to the sounds of the jungle. Mostly insects. Man, those insects were loud! But it was a soothing cacophony. Better than freight-train snoring, anyway. I’ll let you guess who is generally responsible for that. Come morning, we awoke to…

July 23, 2013 in Malaysia, Travel Destinations.

Santubong, Sarawak: Where the rainforest meets the sea

Sarawak sits on the north-western coast of Borneo. It became a Malaysian state when, in 1963, the British decided that it was too much effort and expense to lord it over govern the colony any longer and so the area joined with the new nation of Malaysia, also an ex-colony of Britain. The tiny sultan-ship…

July 21, 2013 in Malaysia, Travel Destinations.

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