Wish you a fantastic 2011!

Wish you all a fantastic 2011!

May all your dreams come true! May the travel gods smile upon you! May your bikes take you places! May your cameras click wonderful images! May you live the life you always wanted to! May there be more leaves when you want to travel!

May your life be wonderful!!!

2010 through the rear-view mirror:

2010 to me was fantastic in terms of travel and photography!! Initially, I thought I would do a full fledged year review, but thought year reviews are too personal and hence wanted to save you the trouble of reading through yet another boring review.

So, I thought I will just list a few memorable moments of 2010.

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Backpacking in Borneo-11: Epilogue

Okay folks! Time to wind up living in Borneo!

This is mostly a meta-post about previously written posts to give a better perspective of my trip. Also, I will try to cover a couple of things I haven’t spoken about yet.

First, thanks to the people who made this trip possible and a successful one.

• My wife who was pretty cool about me leaving her and going to an exotic location for 10 days
• Adarsh for being a wonderful companion and for all the painstaking research on Borneo
• The kind-hearted taxi driver who helped us at Kota Kinabalu
• Tong Ali, our amazing and friendly guide at Uncle Tan
• Lan, Olong and other friendly guys at Uncle Tan
• Yunus, our soft-spoken and gentle guide for the Mt Kinabalu climb
• Jenny, the energetic guide at Gunung Mulu

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Backpacking in Borneo-10: List of sightings

Here is a list of our sightings in Borneo (mostly at Uncle Tan’s, few at Mulu and Mt Kinabalu) .Thanks to Adarsh for sharing his list with me.

Mammals

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Backpacking in Borneo-8: Climbing Mt Kinabalu

‘Younus! How do you think we managed the climb?’

Long silence…..

‘Hmmm… okay’, muttered our guide. More silence…..

‘Hmmm…. you guys took a lot of time’, he added.

‘Aaarghh! No, you are not supposed to speak like that in our video’, I told our honest guide!

A video for self glorification was being shot at the top of Mt Kinabalu at a height of 13400ft. What the guide just told in front of the camera was not exactly what we wanted the world to know.

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Backpacking in Borneo-6: Photography gear to carry

What photography equipment should I carry on my visit to Borneo?

Is the humidity there a problem for camera gear? Should I carry a tripod? Do I need to carry my laptop too? Air Asia has a 7 Kg limit for cabin baggage, right?

These are just few of the umpteen questions a traveler to Borneo would have.

Here’s my attempt at answering a few of those questions. I will split my answer into 4 parts.

1. must carry list
2. specialized gear for specific places (must carry for certain places and not of much use elsewhere)
3. optional gear (nice to have, but can do without it)
4. points to remember

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