15. August 2000 10:43
by Rene Pallesen
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Ecochallenge ( Sabah 2000 )
Away from Headquarters . . .I managed to explore the villages at Silam.
The people here wore this white stuff on their faces - I guess their form of sunscreen.
These people were refugees from the Philippines.
The kids were fighting to fit into the photo!
The kids here were really cute.
These kids here, had caught a monkey and was trying to sell it at the camp for 5 ringgit (AUD$2.50).
No-one wanted to buy it because they knew if they bought it, and set it loose, the kids would just catch it again, and try to sell it.
In general, there were lots of great photos at Silam village.
One of the helicopter pilots was driving through the jungle roads, took a corner too fast, and had a minor mishap.
We headed into Lahad Datu to get some seafood!
An escape from camp food. Camp food was disgusting. There were live worms in the vegetables (yes, after cooked). Most of the food was not fresh, and was pretty boring. The seafood was fantastic here. Whenever we had the chance, we ate lots of seafood.
Yum... Paul did not get to eat all of the crabs - all of us had a portion of it.
Yummm... they were huge, but we did not eat them. They were too big for us to eat, pretty impressive though. They were the biggest lobsters I have seen in my life. We saw these at the same place we ate our seafood and frogs (below).
We had this frog for dinner about 2 min after I took the photo.
This was actually when I went out with Glen in Kota Kinabalu - he asked me to pick some food and to surprise him.
I did not tell him till a year later that he ate frog meat. He asked me what it was, because he reckoned it tasted funny, but I did not tell him at the time.
I think he will only eat it again. Only if he really had to.
Petronis Towers - the tallest twin towers in the world.
Actually, they are the tallest buildings in the world, followed by the Sears Towers in Chicago.
The towers are joined by some sort pedestrian platform.
These towers are located in Kuala Lumpur.
I went to Kuala Lumpur to pick up my Permanent Residency for Australia.
Woohoo!!! After 2 years of lots of paperwork, and correspondence back and forth with Berlin, I finally managed to get it!
The inconvenience of it all, was that I actually had to leave Australia ie collect my PR before re-entering Australia.
Below, is the only photo I have of the Lateral Linking Team that I worked with during the race.
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