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UP A CREEK IN BORNEO

“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 [...]

April-May 2008 | Guy A. Sibilla | 0 comments | Continued
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WaterWorld

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 lauhala [...]

December-January 2008 | Guy A. Sibilla | 0 comments | Continued
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Isla de Flores

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 left [...]

October-November 2007 | Guy A. Sibilla | 0 comments | Continued
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A Botswana Bush Safari

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 [...]

August-September 2007 | Guy A. Sibilla | 0 comments | Continued