This guy was waiting for us to get home! Mengaris village

I've left Asia after eight countries and nearly as many months!

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August 29th 2013
So much to catch up on! Apologies in advance for length of this one. So the last blog ended with me waiting around to begin volunteering. Well, we spent two weeks volunteering with MESCOT/KOPEL, a community conservation project and it was amazing! We were staying in homestays in a village on the Kinabatangan river, living with families for five days at a time and living as they do. For us this inv ... read more

Oceania » Australia » New South Wales » Sydney

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Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more