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Borneo-ou

Posted in South-East Asia, Trip, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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:
Maiku

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Walking in the Rain

Posted in South-East Asia, Trip, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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, [...]

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Year of the Ox

Posted in South-East Asia, Trip, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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 from where we stopped: Chinese New Year.
We both [...]

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Gong Xi Fa Cai

Posted in South-East Asia, Trip, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »

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 some things to tell [...]

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Borneo: like Tarzan in the jungle

Posted in South-East Asia, Trip, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 27, 2009 | 1 Comment »

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 tried to stop them and warned them that they will stay in the [...]

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Yellow fever & a city which took my heart

Posted in South-East Asia, Trip, tagged , , , , , , , on December 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Arriving to Bangkok was a real shock to me; I felt that Asia is a total undiscovered world. At the beginning when we started planning to travel I had my inner fights about going to “poor countries”, as I thought Asia would be.
Bangkok was no way a regular city, and there I discovered that Asia [...]

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