So it has been four months since I went to the gynecologist, here in San Jose, Costa Rica, for a routine girly annual checkup (pap smear). I also went in to get an ultrasound to check on the position of my IUD. Since I don’t speak Spanish fluently I called every doctor office listed in [...]
GROOVESPOOK:We did not end up doing “the same thing tomorrow” after all my brandishing of the word SNORKELING from the last post. Oh no.
We happened to pass a small shop whilst idling down the streets of El Nido and, written on a blackboard was the phrase “Affordable day of diving - no PADI Certification required”
HELLO!!!!
DIVING!!!
We [...]
Sarawak in Borneo was a subject of great excitement for Sup…and a secret fear for me. We both had images in our head of a the wild jungle – Malaysia at its most feral, untamed, tribal even – Sup couldn’t wait and I…well, I was anxious, but open minded.
We couldn’t have been more wrong!
All our [...]
Mangrove Snake
Jungle C
Wir haben spannnende Tage hinter uns!Am Mittwoch fuhren wir für zwei Nächte zu einer Lodge im Schutzgebiet des Kinabatangan Flusses. Wir konnten mit unserem Leihwagen dem Versorgungswagen bis zum Fluss folgen - am Schluss eher knapp über eine ziemlich schlammige Piste- und mussten dann nur noch mit dem Boot einige Meter den Fluss [...]
Orangutans at Sepilok
Montag und Dienstag verbrachten wir mit faulenzen, baden, lesen und einem Besuch im Sepilok Orangutan Zentrum. Dort wird versucht, verwaisten Orangutans die Wildniss näher zu bringen, indem sie im riesigen Waldschutzgebiet frei gelassen werden. Zweimal pro Tag gibt es dann in der Nähe der Station eine Fütterung, der man beiwohnen kann. Angeboten wird [...]
The night of the 24th of July 2010 will be forever be lost to us, spent as it was on a greyhound bus making it’s slow, slow way down the coast between Townsville and Agnes Waters. I really don’t recommend making 14 hours on a bus part of any Australian trip you may, but [...]
El Parque Nacional Taman Negara es el primer parque nacional que apareció en Malasia en el año 1938. Principalmente se creó para proteger más de 4000 km2 de selva primaria que existen en tierra continental malaya. Es una de las últimas selvas primarias del mundo, es decir, que sigue su evolución natural sin [...]
A White Rhinoceros’ Bum
A Hyena regurgitating his food!
1 Zebra
At 4:45am we woke up and went on an amazing safari.
A Pretty View
Blue Wildebeest
Impala’s kissing
Our tiny little car was amazing and managed to take us pretty much everywhere the jeeps and 4×4s went.
A Cheetah!!!
A Bush Pig!!!
A Goliath Heron
We had a very lucky day managing to see the [...]
Quiet neighborhood
Moved to Tokyo today, of course it had to be the only rain day of the week so far. Well, I am just glad that it was dry for my last few days in Kyoto, so it’s fine.Due to me doing the checking-out-process yesterday already, I arrived waaaay before the specified time at the [...]
So after our escape from Townsville, we caught a ferry twenty minutes across the water to Magnetic Island, a ‘tropical paradise’, with - and here’s the key bit - wild koalas!!
Our original plan had been to chill out for a few days and then to go to a wwoof host on the island, but that [...]