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Before I start, Afsan, one of my fellow Mount Kinabalu climbers has also added some really great photos, so feel free to take a look, especially of the one of me completely wrapped in warm clothing on the summit.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=y3whyk9.14lf6kah&Uy=mjlfr7&Upost_signin=Slideshow.jsp?mode=fromshare&Ux=0
The chaos continues...
Simon Wadsworth2006-09-04 17:27:21
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It's the little things that add amusement to the cultural experience - buses decorated with pompoms with kareoke videos playing, flocks of men standing in shopping centre walkways watching films through tv-shop windows, and the smell of Durian (a fruit that smells so bad it's banned on Singapore trains, for example) and fresh fish wafting through the open-air markets and eateries.
After I last wrote, I did a day trip out to Palau Sipidan, one of the world's best dive spots I've been told, where I did 2 dives, both of which were superb. Briefly, the first was appropriately called 'Turtle Cave' since you dive to the entrance of a large, dark, gloomy cave where turtles (and humans) have got lost and died inside, leaving lovely tombed remains to those who dare to map and venture into it. We regarded ourselves with some intelligence to not do this. The second dive, 'The Hanging Gardens' was even better, with a wonderful array of colourful coral everywhere, along a wall and on an upper plateau, full of intricate networks and very beautiful. We also saw lots of 1m-wide turtles and a shark, which I've forgotton the name of, so let's call him Bill. Best dive I've done so far.
Getting an overnight bus back to KK involved little sleep and lots of watching of said kareoke videos and snippets of King Kong, and listening to the intracacies of Malaysian snoring patterns, and was followed by 2 final days in KK just doing some shopping and faffing about. I also reached my 100th day 'on the road' while back in KK, so treated myself to a celebratory drink that cost as much as a dorm bed. Hard to think I've been travelling for this long already - it's gone by so quickly. but lots more to go just yet.
As for now for example, I'm in Manila, capital of the Philippines, and with a population of over 10million, by far the biggest city I've ventured into so far [outside of North America].
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Philippines Gallery
