Mt Kinabalu is the highest mountain in South East Asia at 4095 metres (13435 ft). Located at Sabah, Malaysia, in the island of Borneo, Mt K is essentially a huge granite dome (batholith) that was pushed up from the earth’s crust as molten rock millions of years ago. In geological terms, it is a very young mountain as the granite cooled and hardened only about 10 million years ago. It is still pushing...
I had heard so much about Khao Sok National Park and its floating huts right in the middle of a rainforest, so on my recent holiday to Thailand I decided to make a special trip to experience it first hand. Khao Sok National Park is in Southern Thailand and is the oldest rainforest in the world.
I met my guide, whom I’d pre-arranged, at Surat Thani. I’d also pre-booked the floating lodge which was on a lake right in the midst of the national park with limestone cliffs surrounding...
We didn’t plan to cover the whole of Tasmania in the few days that we were there. Could we really travel north to south, east to west in the 8 days we had? You bet we could! And here’s how we did it.
After a 2 hour evening flight from Sydney, we touched down in Launceston at about 8pm. We hired a car at the airport and drove to Launceston Backpackers where we had booked a double room with ensuite. The hostel is pretty good, except that we...
Corsica is well known in Europe as a hiker’s paradise. It has some of the most challenging routes in Europe and has always been a dream of mine to visit one day. That dream finally came true in June on 2004. Together with my best friend, KC, we started our preparation and researched on which route to take. Corsica has a whole range of difficult hikes, from the famous GR20 which attracts thousands of hikers each year, to other easier and shorter hikes. As this was our first trip to...
(WORK IN PROGRESS) In May and June of 2006, I traveled from St. Petersburg to Beijing along the old Silk Route. I traveled through Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Western China on the way to Beijing.
It completed a very long loop which originally took me from Beijing, into Mongolia, then into Russia traveling on the Trans-Siberian Railway (the 'Transsib').
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