All your monkeys are belong to us.
The good days are almost over and I wouldn’t mind if a sudden ice age closed FRA for the next two or three years, but I fear that’s only wishful thinking. Before I set sail here’s my last update:
well, we finally got our divers’ licenses, and the same day we got it we went straight [...]
I am very sorry, but I have bad news for you.
It is very likely that I won’t be able to take or post any more images about our current activities.
Our original plan was to either climb Mt. Kinabalu, visit the Mulu caves or do a real deep-jungle-track. Unfortunately all of these items were either [...]
Update: Images added.
So many things happened the last days and I’m lacking the words to describe the beauty of most of them. I couldn’t decide yet if that’s good or bad, but let me assure you that even when taking photography into account one Borneo is still worth more than a thousand pictures. There are, [...]
Update: Images have been added.
I don’t even try to write a sensible introduction.
went to the island Mamutik and did some snorkeling. The trip could have been funnier, the jellyfish however had other plans
never thought supposedly cute little fish can be so impertinent (however, we ate some out of revenge afterwards, that will teach them [...]
Today felt like two days, and as I’m short of time again (and as it’s 23:30 late at night), here’s a brief again:
flight to Kota Kinabalu was better than any roller coaster I’ve ever tried; had they only played “Highway to the Danger Zone” over intercom, it would have been the ride of my life
Malaysia [...]
If this post reads weird thats maybe due to the fact that I’ve been awake for 24 hours now, and still have eight more to go. As my laptop runs out of battery, here’s a quickie:
- departure from FRA was quick and painless, no queues, no problems
- perceived progress of flight was like Frankfurt, Stockholm, [...]
And in goes the first malaria-suppressant … notable side effects (according to the package insert) are:
very frequently: headaches, bellyache, vomiting, diarrhea
frequently: dizziness, insomnia, weird dreams (no joke, its really printed in the insert), depression, lack of appetite, fever, skin rashs, cough
sometimes: sensation of fear, tachycardia (fast beating heart), loss of hair
misc: hepatitis, panic and [...]
… spending a fortune for a flight, equipment, cloths, medical checkup, medicine – not to mention the costs on the spot; just to fly to a place where the sun burns your brain, the rain wets you to the bone, leeches and mosquitos suck your blood, snakes bite you in the foot and three days [...]