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Still smiling!

Miri was built on oil; Sibu was built on the timber trade; Kapit is built on coal and rubbish!

May 11th 2018
Friday 11th May 2018 Well now! Kapit is a bit of a dump! It is by far the dirtiest town we have ever seen in Malaysia and we have probably risked our health eating there! However, we didn’t journey three hours up the mighty Batang Rejang to see Kapit. We journeyed up the mighty Batang Rejang to journey up the mighty Batang Rejang; and we are glad we did. We stayed one night in Kapit ... read more
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We are off island-hopping in Thailand for the month of February. We shall leave home on the 1st of the month and return on 29th (an extra day for Leap Year)! Our journey will be from Alicante to Barcelona by train, then two flights, the first from Barcelona to Doha and the second from Doha to Phuket, both with Qatar Airways. Although this will be our forth visit to the "Land of Smiles", we haven't been there for eleven years and plan to visit islands we haven't seen before. In 2009, we travelled overland from Singapore to the island of Langkawi, Northern Malaysia, in the Southern Andaman Sea. ... full info
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11th May 2018

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WELL YOU BOTH LOOK HAPPY AND CONTENTED...KEEP IT GOING. WHAT AN ADVENTURE THUS FAR. NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED THE LATTER BEING ME AND MAG...!!!!!

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