Borneo-ou
on Sep 1, 2009 in South-East Asia Trip animals Backpacking Borneo jungle Kota Kinabalu Malaysia monkeys Mount Kinabalu Mount Kinabalu National Park orangutan photos Proboscis monkey videos Just wanted to tell that we are glad to present our photos from Borneo in Flickr. Much awaited pictures of Orangutans, nose monkeys and all the rest of the wonders of the jungle. And also you can enjoy this small piece of backpacking lifestyle here:...

Artistic snack
on Aug 16, 2009 in Europe Trip Italy art Milano videos Before we will go back to the jungles of Borneo, there is a small snack for you. I have started editing dozens (if not hundreds) of videos we filmed during the trip. So folks, here we go back to Bella Italia. You will find them in our video page, and...

Walking in the Rain
on Aug 15, 2009 in South-East Asia Trip Backpacking Borneo canopy jungle Kota Kinabalu Malaysia Mount Kinabalu Mount Kinabalu National Park nature Rafflesia tourism trekking Unesco World Heritage I had never felt such a fear. Maiku was behind me screaming on me GO, GO, do not be a coward! And the rain was poring so hard! So hard. I was really terrified, I looked down and I saw a no end of the green! It was not as I expected to climb up there,...

Year of the Ox
on Aug 13, 2009 in South-East Asia Trip Borneo celebrations Chinese Chinese New Year dance Dragon Dance festivities Kota Kinabalu Lion Dance Malaysia traditions videos Year of Ox Dear readers, its been a while. A loooong while. We came back from the trip almost 6 months ago, and the life here in Finland has been – well, interesting. More about that later, but we still have some posts about the trip. So I just continue f...

In the Finnish Jungle.
on Mar 22, 2009 in Finland Backpacking A big apology for our delay of posting. Believe us we want to write but life here back home has not been easy at all between the re-integration and moving flats and work and Finnish winter and it’s flu we had no time to write anything. We are j...

Gong Xi Fa Cai
on Feb 22, 2009 in South-East Asia Trip Religion culture celebrations Malaysia Borneo Chinese New Year Year of Ox festivals Melaka Malacca Chinese culture Kota Kinabalu minorities Asian food Gong xi fa cai, or happy new year in Chinese! Sorry we have been lazy lately to update our blog. As most of you know already, we came back home about 2 weeks ago. Getting home was bit of a culture shock, but more of that later. First, we have still s...

Scandalous material
on Jan 30, 2009 in South-East Asia Trip animals Indonesia Java Yogyakarta Jakarta zoo photos orangutans tigers white tigers Komodo dragons Merapi Erupting volcanoes! Boxing kangaroos! An elephant bull in the heath! Prehistoric monsters! What happened to a thief? Are the orangutans drunk? Lunatic rickshaw drivers! Temples in the deep jungle! Secret chambers of sultan’s palace!

Borneo: like Tarzan in the jungle
on Jan 27, 2009 in South-East Asia Trip animals Borneo jungle Malaysia orangutan Proboscis monkey Sabah Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary wildlife The ancestors believed that the mountain was sacred and that the spirits roamed the peak, but mainly they feared climbing to the peak due to never coming back. When the British conquerors arrived, they wanted to climb the mountain but the locals trie...

To the monkeys
on Jan 26, 2009 in South-East Asia Trip animals Indonesia Jakarta poverty Rahunan Zoo tiger white tiger zoo About half an hour before Jakarta, the views from train window changed from lush green rice paddies to shackles, trash and more trash. These slums and shackles accommodate thousands of dwellers, who have moved from countryside to the capital in hope...

Obamania and mango trees
on Jan 21, 2009 in South-East Asia Trip astrology Barack Obama inauguration Indonesia Jakarta Muslim numerology Obama obamania politics Religion Ryan Giggs US Congratulations, Mr. President. A few hours ago, I watched Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony in a hostel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, alongside with about a dozen of international backpackers. All but one of us were non-Americans. “An