Initially our plan had been to go to Guilin, a city in southwest China surrounded by the limestone mountains that make its famed karst landscape. I however underestimated the demand on the Chinese railways for the holidays, and found that ambitious travel agents had snapped up all the available tickets within a day after they… Read More Tour d’Asia, Part 1: Kuala Lumpur
I have been both busy and undisciplined the past couple weeks since getting back to China, so my forays to the blog have been rare, but as today would have it I stumbled upon some luck and can access the blog in full, so hopefully can productively tackle the second part of my Borneo expedition… Read More Last Thoughts on Borneo
This is the name for Borneo that may (or may not, not clear on this point) have been coined by Agnes Keith, an American who lived in the town of Sandakan with her husband before and after WWII. Apparently she has written a book about it, which I will endeavor to read sometime soon, provided… Read More The Land Below the Wind
Zak Abroad 