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125 Days Southeast Asia
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- Nov 28, 2023, 3:27pm · ☀️ 30 °C Altitude: 13 m
  Malaysia Sabah Taman Kam Jai Yen Mount Robertson 5.839573, 118.11855°50’22” N 118°7’7” E
Day 32
Sandakan und Sepilok
November 28 in Malaysia ⋅ ☀️ 30 °C
Sandakan City isch jez nid für viu 😅! Aber mir hei mit de Touri-Traps und usserhaub viu Schlaus drus gmacht: Rooftop Bar (Pizzaaa 🤤 nach ere Wuche Fisch und Riis), Heritage Trail und Borneo Sun Bear und Orangutan Uffangstation in Sepilok 🦧🧡🌿!Read more
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- Feb 15, 2020, 6:35pm · 🌧 27 °C Altitude: 18 m
  Malaysia Sabah Taman Kam Jai Yen Mount Robertson 5.83833, 118.116675°50’18” N 118°7’0” E
Day 72
Sandakan
February 15, 2020 in Malaysia ⋅ 🌧 27 °C
Former British administrative center during the colonial period. Now a fishing and tourist center.
The 1st picture is of the town and harbor front at dusk from a roof top restaurant. 2nd is some of the fishing fleet as they were preparing to go to sea. 3rd is the Padang or central field and square 4th is St. Michael and All Angels church, the first Anglican Church built here. 5th is the State Mosque, built at about the same time. Sandakan developed in the late 19th century. So most history dates from then.
The last picture is at the Sandakan War Memorial, located on the site of the POW camp from WW II. It is from here that the death matches began. At that time, there were about 2,500 prisoners, mostly Australian and British. At the end, none survived, except for 6 who had escaped and were helped by local vilagers.Read more
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- Jan 27, 2023, 6:30am · 🌧 29 °C Altitude: 16 m
  Malaysia Sabah Taman Kam Jai Yen Mount Robertson 5.839787, 118.1181035°50’23” N 118°7’5” E
Day 74
Kota Kinabalu -> Sandakan
January 27 in Malaysia ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
6:30 a.m. - We packed our stuff together and went to the bus station.

8 a.m. - We departure to Sandakan.

1:30 p.m. - We stopped at a restaurant for lunch but honestly it was the worst lunch I had so far. It was horrible. The drive was really long about 8h and not spectacular. The highlights were the bad condition of the road, to see Mt. Kinabalu, oil palm as far you could see and a police control.

4 p.m. - We arrived in our hostel in Sandakan centre. Afterwards we got some really good coffee and some information in the hostel about what to do etc.

8 p.m. - Later we went out for dinner where I got a good curry since a long time. Lea did her laundry and I added my stuff. She chose the smallest heat but somehow my clothes shrank a bit. Furthermore I realized that I had no blanket but the reception was already closed. I found some blankets somewhere in a room so I just took one by myself. I had no idea if it was washed or not but it smelled good.Read more
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Traveler Our little family adventure
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- Oct 16, 2018 · ⛅ 32 °C Altitude: 20 m
  Malaysia Sabah Taman Kam Jai Yen Mount Robertson 5.83946, 118.117175°50’22” N 118°7’2” E
Day 150
Family time in Sandakan
October 16, 2018 in Malaysia ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
After an overnight in Kuala Lumpur, we jump on another plane to Sandakan in East Malaysia (Borneo) to spend some time with family. My cousin was so nice to drive the 300+km to pick us up and look after us for our time in Sandakan (where my parents grew up). Lila has been asking about visiting Malaysia throughout our trip as she knows she will get to play with her cousins. They had fun from the beginning, with Lila hopping in the back of the car with the kids as soon as we were picked up from the airport.

From there we basically had a week of eating, days revolved around eating and talking about eating with the family :)Read more
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Traveler Our little family adventure
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- Oct 18, 2018 · ⛅ 32 °C Altitude: 20 m
  Malaysia Sabah Taman Kam Jai Yen Mount Robertson 5.83946, 118.117175°50’22” N 118°7’2” E
Day 152
More family pics
October 18, 2018 in Malaysia ⋅ ⛅ 32 °C
Today we visited one of our favourite temples in Sandakan, at the top of the hill with a nice view of the city. Sometimes when I look down from there I try to think about what Sandakan would have been like when my parents were growing up there, as the city has certainly grown in size with more and more concrete buildings and almost non existent and dirty beach.

Of course there is more eating and eating with family :)Read more
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Singapore/Borneo/Java/Bali
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- Sep 23, 2023, 9:30am · ☁️ 29 °C Altitude: 46 m
  Malaysia Sabah Taman Kam Jai Yen Mount Robertson 5.85, 118.1100015°51’0” N 118°6’36” E
Day 8
Sandakan City
September 23 in Malaysia ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Most of our holidays we travelled along, but at Sukau lodge resort, we were in a group of other very nice people from Australië, Austria and Germany !
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- Dec 18, 2017 · ⛅ 30 °C Altitude: 151 ft
  Malaysia Sabah Taman Kam Jai Yen Mount Robertson 5.843675, 118.1109475°50’37” N 118°6’39” E
Day 46
Sandakan with some new friends
December 18, 2017 in Malaysia ⋅ ⛅ 30 °C
We found an English tea house so it was rude not to have some afternoon tea delights with our new English friends!
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- Dec 18, 2017 · ⛅ 31 °C Altitude: 39 ft
  Malaysia Sabah Taman Kam Jai Yen Mount Robertson 5.839376, 118.1156615°50’22” N 118°6’56” E
Day 16
Sandakan
December 18, 2017 in Malaysia ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C
You can take the girl out of England but you can't take England out of the girl ....
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