More photos of Kota Kinabalu sunset are here! Kota Kinabalu is famous for their exquisite sunsets. I already show-offed how gorgeous those sunsets are from my previous photo essay. The world stops for 20 minutes in the evening. People sit near the waterfront. Cars pull off for photos. Watching the show of lights with a […]
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Have you ever wondered why there are so many public art installations in Brisbane? That was the first question I had while walking in the downtown. Statues stand on the ground and some art even float in the sky in a form of wire. Or sometimes it’s hanging from the ceiling of a building, or
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The Day I Held a Koala in Queensland, Australia What everyone said was true. They really do smell like cough drops. Their fur is like a high-quality floor mat, their claws are like round sickles, but their face makes you squeal an unrecognizable noise from the back of your throat and speak in a voice
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The Kelpies: More Than Giant Horses Scotland recently acquired a pair of metal equine sculptures. It’s 30-meter high, became the largest public art in Scotland, and one of the largest of its kind in the world. It’s The Kelpies, stands in the Helix Environmental Regeneration Scheme on the Forth and Clyde Canal near Falkirk on
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Exploring Clew Bay: one island at a time Collanmore Island, one of 365 islands in the Clew Bay, is where I spent two days during my Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way trip. People say it takes one full year to visit every island in the Clew Bay. One down, and 364 to go! It’s safe to
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What happened at the Edinburgh’s Hogmanay Edinburgh knows how to welcome the New Year. For three days, they throw one of the world’s biggest parties filled with music, adventure, and more than enough fireworks. I returned to Scotland to participate in #blogmanay campaign following last year’s Hogmanay in celebration in Inverness. For this year, I
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Glen Coe: Where the Elves Might Be(?) Sometimes the world can surprise you when least expected. Our road trip from Edinburgh to Glen Coe, which normally takes less than 3-hour ‘in a normal driving’, took us five hours. A car full of photography-enthusiasts in a country like Scotland; it was quite predictable. If you like
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“It’s like riding a bike…” doesn’t really mean anything to me. If you mean it’s a mind-bogglingly difficult task, then yes. One of the most excruciating memories from my childhood was riding a bike along Han River with my classmates in elementary school. I must have been 8 or 9 years old. We were going
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The legend goes… Irish giant Fionn mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) built a causeway over the North Channel to meet and fight Scottish giant Benandonner. They’ve been rivals for some time. Finn was often taunted by Benandonner from afar. Finn finally challenged Benandonner and built the causeway to walk over to Scotland without getting wet. But he
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Mabul Island gave me an ecstasy and sadness One of the richest single destinations for exotic marine life anywhere in the world, Mabul Island was the perfect destination to complete my time in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. I was still high from AWE ’14, so we head to the east coast of Borneo to unwind (and
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