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Velvet moments: travel photo of the week – Mount Kinabalu

Mount Kinabalu in Sabah is Malaysia’s highest mountain (at 4,092 meters) and a magnificent sight from the air. Read the accompanying post: “Plane Views: Mount Kinabalu“. Search for hotels in Kota Kinabalu.

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The urge for adventure – dreaming of paradise in Borneo

A guest post by Michael Shaw. There’s a ludicrously huge world map on my wall. Its looks a little old-fashioned. Not quite Mercator – Winkel Tripel, if you want to get geeky about it – and certainly no gaping sea monsters in uncharted waters. But its palette is natural; jungle, steppe, desert, dust, and dirty [...]

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Velvet moments: travel photo of the week – Kinabatangan River

The Kinabatangan River in Malaysian Borneo at dawn. Read the accompanying post: “The Kinabatangan River Safari“. See other Velvet Moments: Impalas at the Serengeti, Tanzania Quebrada de Las Conchas, Argentina Bruges canals, Belgium Sacred Water Temple, Bali, Indonesia Positano, Italy The Great Ocean Road, Australia

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Velvet moments: travel photo of the week – Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary, Malaysia

An infant orangutan at the Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary, Sabah, Malaysia. Read the accompanying post: ‘An instant love affair with the orangutans of Sabah‘ See other Velvet moments: Murals of Valparaiso, Chile Floating villages, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Zanzibar, Tanzania Lago Grey, Torres del Paine, Chile Pompeii, Italy Bora Bora, French Polynesia Serengeti, Tanzania Sacred Water Temple, [...]

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The Kinabatangan river safari

The Kinabatangan River is Malaysia’s second longest river (at 560 kilometers). Located in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo, the Kinabatangan has its origins in the mountains of southwest Sabah and carves its way through some of the oldest tropical rainforests in the world to its mouth in the Sulu Sea. [...]

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