Cameron & Adrian's website.
'Mac' because Cam spelled her name backwards when she was a kid (and her mum told me about it) 'n' for and and 'ade' for me.
The picture at the top of this page is the sunset over Melina beach on Tioman Island, which lies east of the Malaysian peninsular. I took it with a rubbish camera in 2009!
The picture to the left is both of us on a jungle hike in the Cameron Highlands in the north of Malaysia in 2009. Our guide made us the fern crowns.
The picture at the top of this page is the sunset over Melina beach on Tioman Island, which lies east of the Malaysian peninsular. I took it with a rubbish camera in 2009!
The picture to the left is both of us on a jungle hike in the Cameron Highlands in the north of Malaysia in 2009. Our guide made us the fern crowns.
Back to Borneo...
Our route
The site is divided into four sections: two 'travleogues' from this summer (2010), a videos page and a 'How to' page, to remind ourselves how to get to some of the places we've been (or maybe you want to go to). The trip this year stems very much from what we did last year... and the fact that we had free flights back to SE Asia obviously made a large contribution both in financial terms and ensuring we were in a similare area two years in a row.
We travelled by nearly every mode of transport imaginable: plane, train, bus, bike, longboat, junk, car, moped and, naturally, our own feet. Elephants weren't used, but not because they weren't an option.
The trip began in KL (Kuala Lumpur), went on to Borneo (Bario and then Kuching), before taking a sudden diversion north to Vietnam: first to Ho Chi Minh City (or Saigon as they would say), a quick hop out of the country to see Angkora Wat in Cambodia, before returning to Vietnam and to Hoi An, followed by a train up to the mountainous Sapa, and finally Hanoi, a city readying itself for its 1000th birthday.
In addition, we decided that on this trip, we would take a cooking class in each of the countries we visited. We thought it would be a good way to meet some locals and find out more about the culture of where we were. It couldn't have worked better!! And that means, eventually, there will be a final page on the website of recipes and instructions of how to make some of the tastiest food in the world, which if I can cook, so can anyone!
Sorry if the travelogues take a while to download - this is because of the pictures and the fact that this version of the website only comes with 6 free pages. Any more would cost me $100 a year...
Keep checking back, as the updates will come sporadically throughout the summer.
We travelled by nearly every mode of transport imaginable: plane, train, bus, bike, longboat, junk, car, moped and, naturally, our own feet. Elephants weren't used, but not because they weren't an option.
The trip began in KL (Kuala Lumpur), went on to Borneo (Bario and then Kuching), before taking a sudden diversion north to Vietnam: first to Ho Chi Minh City (or Saigon as they would say), a quick hop out of the country to see Angkora Wat in Cambodia, before returning to Vietnam and to Hoi An, followed by a train up to the mountainous Sapa, and finally Hanoi, a city readying itself for its 1000th birthday.
In addition, we decided that on this trip, we would take a cooking class in each of the countries we visited. We thought it would be a good way to meet some locals and find out more about the culture of where we were. It couldn't have worked better!! And that means, eventually, there will be a final page on the website of recipes and instructions of how to make some of the tastiest food in the world, which if I can cook, so can anyone!
Sorry if the travelogues take a while to download - this is because of the pictures and the fact that this version of the website only comes with 6 free pages. Any more would cost me $100 a year...
Keep checking back, as the updates will come sporadically throughout the summer.