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A Different Kind of Palm Desert
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 26 July 2011
“Wow, Sabah is so beautiful. There are so many palm trees everywhere,” the Dutch tourist blurted out as she walked into the restaurant opposite Sukau Greenview. Tony and I looked at each other, jaws dropping. Our eyes said it all. How can you come all the way here and not realize that massive deforestation and [...]
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The Kinabatangan River
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 23 July 2011
The Kinabatangan River is tragic and miraculous at the same time. One of Sabah’s premier attractions, the river flows through a stretch of surviving secondary and tertiary forest sandwiched between the industrial-scale palm plantations of the Kinabatangan region. Perhaps the strongest testament to wildlife’s ability to survive and adapt under desperate conditions, I can personally [...]
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Après-Dive
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 21 July 2011
What did you say, Tony? Your mango-sago ice blend looks like a frogfish? Clearly, too much diving. I guess the nitrogen must have gotten to you…
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Organizing your Trip to Sipadan
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 17 July 2011
Sipadan is consistently listed as one of the top ten dive sites in the world. And, as we discussed in our post Is Sipadan All Hype?, with its amazingly rich sea life and unique topography, the island definitely lives up to its reputation. But with so much focus, the tiny little island was in serious [...]
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Is Sipadan All Hype?
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 15 July 2011
Wait until you get to Sipadan… Sipadan, Sipadan, Sipadan. That’s all we’ve heard for the last few years. No matter where you dive, someone’s always there to point out that Sipadan is so much better. Even after more than 80 dives, we were told Sipadan can top them all. It almost seems dive sites around [...]
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Eat Your Heart Out, Cousteau!
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 14 July 2011
OK, we haven’t quite matched Cousteau’s accomplishments yet, but we’re getting there. Sipadan was one of his favorite locations in his later years. Although dive operators already started exploring Pulau Sipadan in the early 1980′s, Jacques Cousteau’s 1989 documentary The Ghost of the Sea Turtles catapulted this small island in the Celebes Sea to stardom. [...]
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Borneo Bound
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 12 July 2011
Thomas and I have finally taken the leap… out of mainland Southeast Asia, that is. We’ve made our way to the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo. When people hear the name Borneo, they envision a vast wilderness shrouded in dense jungle – a 21st century “heart of darkness” which has somehow [...]
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Water World
Blog: Timothy Allen on BBC Earth - 9 October 2009
My first glimpses of the Bajau people... OMG!
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