So I was in Kuching last last weekend to attend a friend’s wedding. Seeing an opportunity, I decided to take something off my long standing bucketlist by climbing up to Mount Santubong – one of the most famous natural landmarks in Kuching and probably Sarawak as a whole. I knew that the beauty if it when visualized from at a distance has long enticed people to come to it but surprisingly not so many people that I know in Kuching…
FRIM (Forest Research Institute Malaysia) is probably too governmental for many KL folks but seriously when it comes to getting back to nature (I like to use the term ‘return’ because I believe civilization had first originated from nature,no?), nothing can quite beat it. I mean, most of the forests that you’d see around KL and beyond are merely leftovers of extensive logging activities in the past but the one at FRIM was one of the very lucky few to…
I used to believe that Switzerland and New Zealand are the most beautiful countries in the world, that if there were heavens on earth, they’d be somewhere in these two countries. But of course, that was before I read about the Himalayan regions. Then I knew, I had to go there first and that Switzerland and New Zealand could wait 🙂 The Change of Plan My trip to Nepal was actually part of my mission to climb up to the base…