Tagged With "Kuching"
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Re: Gallery: Borneo, The Last Market
I certainly hope this is not the last market...I never get tired of them!
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Re: Gallery: Borneo, The Last Market
I agree with PHeymont. I think these market pieces show us more about a society's culture and cuisine than any other series of photos could. So if you've got more, we'd love to see them!
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Re: Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 21, 2014: Headhunters, Borneo
Hmm, guess this just isn't a war trophy kind of crowd. Or maybe you had to be there.
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Re: Borneo: Last Stop, Kuching
In all my travels to SE Asia, I haven't made it to Borneo yet. You describe it just as I imagined it to be.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 21, 2014: Headhunters, Borneo
To view any society one dimensionally makes no sense, of course, except maybe for the sake of a good headline (pun intended). The people of Borneo were, however, sometimes prone to settling disputes with warfare that included collecting enemy heads.
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Gumbo's Pic of the Day, June 28, 2014: Tua Pek Kong Temple, Kuching
Kuching, in Malaysian Borneo, was founded by an adventurous Englishman, Rajah James Brooke, on the Sarawak River that was the only access to the interior of that part of Borneo.
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Borneo: Last Stop, Kuching
The impetus for my trip to Borneo came, as it often does for me, from a casual reference or suggestion, in this case both. First was a phrase I’d seen in passing, "White Rajas of Borneo".
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Gallery: Borneo, The Last Market
PortMoresby visits the market in Kuching, Borneo, one of the last to continue as an open-air economy