Archive for Guy A. Sibilla

UP A CREEK IN BORNEO

April - May 2008

“The heads of the man,” Aprianus said nonchalantly while pointing up at the cluster of dark, round objects hanging in the ceiling of the longhouse deep within the jungles of Central Borneo. My Indonesian guide and I had traveled up the Kahayan River from Palangkaraya to finally end up here. As we sat on the…

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WaterWorld

December - January 2008

Life and luxury on a Tahitian reef “We call this the House of the Sharks,” Manuiti says nonchalantly as we approach the front door of a thatch-roofed cottage resting on stilts about eight feet above the waterline. As we entered I could feel my blood pressure begin to fall in the soft glow of woven…

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Isla de Flores

October - November 2007

Where Maya and missionary influences meet in Guatemala An entire civilization dissolved into the sweltering Central American jungles about a thousand years ago. Superb engineers and mathematicians; artisans and historians; warriors and bureaucrats – all of them gone. The sophistication of their culture can be seen today in the pyramids and lesser ruins the Maya…

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A Botswana Bush Safari

August - September 2007

For the yin that is Hawaii, the African nation of Botswana clearly serves as yang. Botswana is Hawaii’s antipode – literally, the diametrically opposite point on the surface planet, which would be reached if a hole were drilled from Hawaii through the middle of the Earth. Our islands are surrounded by water; Botswana, on the…

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