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“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” [Moorish proverb]
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> MINDIL BEACH, DARWIN, AUSTRALIA (Oct ‘09)
China > Sichuan > Chengdu
Saturday, 23 Jan 2010
Leaving the Red Panda enclosures, we pass through more majestic bamboo forest.
Then ‘The Sign’ … please excuse us for being a tad excited!
The Giant Panda enclosures are designed to be as natural as possible, with the raised viewing footpath discretely tucked at the side.
The first thing [...]
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Saturday, 23 Jan 2010
Chengdu is, of course, synonymous with the lovable Giant Pandas. Once inhabiting most of central and eastern modern-day China, now there are less than 2,000 pandas in the wild, thanks to widespread habitat destruction, with 80%-90% of them found in the mountains of northern Sichuan. The big earthquake [...]
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Last Thursday, 04 Feb 2010, I took a noon Firefly flight from KL Subang Airport (SZB) bound for Penang (PEN). The flight utilised the France-made turboprop plane, ATR-72. Soon after taking off Runway 15, the plane climbed and made a tight right turn, flying over Subang Jaya, Shah Alam and Setia Alam, whence these aerial [...]
Prologue
I was on a Jetstar flight from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur last Saturday night (06 Feb 2010), and as I flipped through the highly-readable inflight mag, I spotted a story about the legendary Darwin Sunset. I actually witnessed my own Darwin Sunset last Oct, so here’s my tale …
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Australia > Northern Territory > Darwin
Darwin, [...]
