Noel Winstanley

Photos of Namibia

I'm back in UK now, catching up with the photo backlog. Here's photos of Windhoek town..

.. and some animal shots from a game farm nearby.

Wah! Hong Kong was a shock after Borneo and Cambodia - so busy, so crowded. Brilliant. Expensive. Baffling to think of this as part of China - very different atmosphere, and many more freedoms. Maybe the mainland will be like this oneday...

Hong Kong

We spent a few days here, before taking the very long flight to Namibia, where we are at the moment. Coming next - photos of deserts, lions and elephants..

Temples of Angkor

After 6 weeks in Borneo, it was time for a change - we swapped jungle for temples by taking an AirAsia budget flight to Angkor, Cambodia. A week was all too short for this lovely country, with smashing people - we saw a lot of ruins, but would have loved to stay and explore the rest of the country. One to come back to.

Angkor, Cambodia

Kinabatangan River, Borneo

Photos from our stay at Uncle Tan's - a really great jungle adventure.

Uncle Tan's on Kinabatangan

Mount Kinabalu

We spent a few days walking in the foothills of Mount Kinabulu. Climbing to the top sounded like too much of a maul, so we pottered around the lower jungly slopes. We saw rain, amazing plants, birds and leeches.

Mount Kinabalu

Niah Cave

A huge cave in Borneo.

Niah Cave

Travelling the Rejang River

We spent a while travelling along the Rejang river, Borneo. It's huge - immensely wide where it meets the sea, and very long. It acts as a shipping superhighway into the interior.

We visited Mukkah, in the mangrove swamps near the coast - a very pleasant market town.

Mukkah

Around here, people grow sago (and sago grubs) rather than rice.

Sago Factory

Then we headed upriver to Sibu, a friendly city of christian chinese colonists.

Sibu

And then went further upriver again to Kapit, where we mistakenly entered a raft race. 5 hours hard work, and we came last.

Raft Racing down the Rejang

Bako National Park

Bako National Park is on an peninsula near Kuching, Borneo. It can only be reached by boat, and feels like a lost world. We spent a day trekking here - through mangrove swamps, thick jungle, and scrubland. There's plenty of proboscis monkeys here - they've got an amazing nose, and a pot belly causd by their hard-to-digest diet. Also saw pitcher plants and all sorts of butterflies.