Category: Lessons
#27 Crossroads: Malaysia to where?
We left the Cat sanctuary with heavy hearts – due to the emotion invested in our four legged friends, but once we were on the bus to Kuantan, a town only 70kms away, a wave of relief came over u... Read More
#26 Pekan: The animal shelter
After 3 hours on the bus from KL, we arrived in Pekan. Having only had communication via Facebook we were a tad nervous that we wouldn’t get picked up from the bus stop on arrival. I managed t... Read More
#24 Tioman Island: JTP Part 2
Island life really suited us. We awoke each day buzzing with what the day had in store. Breakfast and lunch were provided by JTP and all the volunteers ate together, so there was always lots of chat a... Read More
#23 Tioman Island: Juara Turtle Project Part 1
An integral part of this journey was always going to be getting involved in volunteering project work, preferably with animals, and even before leaving Cape Town, we had earmarked a turtle conservatio... Read More
#21 Palawan to Kuala Lumpur
It was just the four of us again (plus the infinite amount of mosquitos) and the rain: buckets of it; so we were penned in and alternated between the bedroom, veranda and the communal dinning room. Th... Read More
#20 Philippines: Buena Vista to El Nido
Laura and Mark’s fear was that the wound could be infected due to the primitive conditions at the small clinic at Buena Vista, and unfortunately they were proved correct. Zack’s stitches had to be... Read More
#19 Philippines: The Accident
The weather turned in our favour and the kids had great fun, swimming in the sea and building houses for the tiny crabs at the waters edge. Mark went for a long swim and I was quite far out in the w... Read More
#18 Onwards: Borneo to Philippines
Our two families worked together well, and all of our travel plans had been executed with minimum upheaval. The kids even squabbled sporadically like siblings would! It was decided to continue our... Read More
#17 Boys to Men
It was decided that the dads and sons would do the gruelling 2 day 1 night hike up Mt Kinabalu which was a not too shabby 4095 Metres. Mark and I had vowed to take the boys up and bring them back as m... Read More
#16 Borneo – Kota Kinabalu
Kota Kinabalu or KK for short, is probably the most populated city in Borneo including the Indonesian part of the Island, but still tiny in comparison to Cape Town. Our apartment was within four huge ... Read More
# 15 Borneo-Kuching
Kuching, the capital of Sarawak, was our next stop and it was quite a shock to the system arriving at our new home for the week; a family room in a backpackers. The room was small and, as is quite the... Read More- 3 of 4
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