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Taking the kids on a travel adventure
When Kevin and I took Rowan on a vacation to Asia and Australia this year, I knew it would be a good opportunity to tell some great travel stories. We took our little guy to the places we knew would excite all our souls, including Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysian Borneo and Perth. But we…
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Turtle love
We spent the day swimming, snorkelling and lounging on a stunning secluded beach on Selingan, an island of just 7.2 hectares, north east of Sandakan in the Sulu Sea. In the evening we met our guide, Wesley, for our briefing, and then watched a quick documentary about the island and the turtles that come there…
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Orangutans revisited
The afternoon feeding at Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center is definitely the better time to visit. We arrived at 3 pm and there was already a young Orangutan there, waiting for the park rangers to bring lunch. Then two females arrived, each with a baby clinging to its chest. They ate bananas, what looked like small…
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Big noses, rain and dinosaur puzzles
Proboscis monkeys are so called because the males have long, flat, wide noses. We went to the Labuk Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary to spend some time with them and watch them swing grandly among the trees. Three families came to the feeding platforms, first the large males, running and slapping their feet on the wooden boardwalk…
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Jungle chatter
Tonight, we walked back from the restaurant to our room, across the multiple boardwalks and bridges that criss-cross the resort‘s property, listening to crickets and other insects, frogs and birds. The boardwalks take us past an enormous pond that always looks peaceful and lush (whenever we walk by it, Rowan says “look at the beautiful…
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Borneo at last
Three flights and 48 hours later, we are in Sandakan, Borneo. We stopped for a night in the capital, Kota Kinabalu, on the west coast, but just at the Hyatt, so that we could enjoy a night’s rest, good food and some play time at their lovely pool overlooking the South China Sea. For our…
