From Glenda Larke’s blog, on her recent holiday on Gunung (Mount) Kinabalu:
We are close to 1000m high. Cold water in the bathroom, straight off the mountain. Electricity for a few hours at night by way of a generator. No frig. No phone, not even mobile lines. No internet. No shops. No people but us. And the place is gorgeous with views from the verandah to die for. A river just below us, chattering endlessly over stones, a background sound to whatever we do for the next five days.
Sunrise starts at the top of the hills and sneaks downwards. The mornings are cloudless and hazeless, the afternoons misty or wet as the mountain creates its own weather and then dumps it on us. The evenings are cold as the sunlight creeps upwards to turn Mt Kinabalu red, leaving us below in the valley in the dark, already tucked away for the night.
I go birdwatching. I write. I read. I walk in the forest.
I am rejuvenated.
Sounds like heaven!
* Picture is Glenda’s, also.
P.S. This post follows on from this morning’s Malay language post. Does anyone want a translation, could you guess the gist of it? I’m guessing not, but I’m lazy unmotivated…