Proboscus Monkey

Sungai Kinabatangan

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July 22nd 2007
This morning I am being picked up and driven by mini bus through the palm oil plantations to a lodge on the Kinabatangan River. This was my first road trip in Borneo and the countryside is not what I expected, the deep jungles and the bumpy little roads of my imagination are no more, instead there where miles and miles of palm oil plantations or scorched land. After a long trip we arrived on the ... read more

Asia » Malaysia » Sabah

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more