Asia - 2007


	Asia (2007)

Photos per year (number): 1995 (70) 1998 (302) 1999 (775) 2001 (50) 2002 (429) 2004 (235) 2005 (396) 2006 (584) 2007 (472) 2008 (327)


Saying hi to the sharks in Sentosa	Siloso Beach on Sentosa	Seeing the city in the distance from Sentosa	Sentosa, harbour and city	View of Harbourfront	Peacock lady ignore the male	Peacock indifference	Shoot the ball through the hole	The art of making dumplings	Choosing dim sum

Here's to Chinese food!	Eating Chinese food	Tossing freshly made noodles	View of Singapore at dusk	The Merlion, mascot of the Singapore Slingers	The merlion and I	Go Slingers!	Crowds in Pagoda Street for Chinese New Year	Crowds for Chinese New Year purchases	Incessant buying frenzy

Chinatown on Chinese New Year	Colourful fruit	Chinese New Year pears	Men playing Chinese chess in Chinatown	Clothing lines in Chinatown	Royal Peacock Hotel	Lunch at the Royal Peacock Hotel	Street in Chinatown	The Merlion of Sentosa	Butterfly Park

Gentle encounter	Cross-eyed encounter	An easy meal?	Central town, seen from Fort Canning	Musical fountains	Penang city center	Batik making	Kek Lok Si Temple seen from the road	Arriving at Kek Lok Si Temple	Lampoons

Rows of lampoons	Inside a shrine	Offerings to Buddha	View from Kek Lok Si Temple	Ban Po Thar	Lampoon rows	Penang density	Kuan Yin, goddess of mercy	Kek Lok Si Temple under the rain	Snake temple

One of the vipers of the snake temple	Tourist photos with the snakes	Snakes on the altar	Strange sight!	Fisherman village on the water	The grand Eastern & Oriental Hotel	Victoria Memorial Clock Tower	Remains of Fort Cornwallis	City Hall	St George's Church

St George's Church and its pavilion	Seashore of Penang	Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion entrance	Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion	Khoo Kongsi clan temple	Details of the Dragon Mountain Hall	Weeping monk	Laughing monk	Khoo Kongsi temple entrance	An altar of the Dragon Mountain Hall

List of all famous Khoos	More plaques to celebrate Khoos	Detailed murals	Detailed murals	Details of an altar	Nine Old Men mural in Khoo Kongsi	Courtyard of the Khoo Kongsi	Khoo Kongsi buildings	The reception hall of Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion	Main door of the Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion

Scene from last century	Beautiful colours of Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion	Strange stick insect	Leaf insect	Pitcher plant	Battling a giant beetle	Glorious bus company staff in Penang	At the Science Center	Wrestling with a frog	Frenchman and a frog

Mysterious Men expo	Night falls on the Singapore River	On the boat	The Fullerton Hotel at night	The Merlion in the Marina	Night time on the Marina	The treetop walk	Wild monkey in the forest	Hyena at the Singapore Night Safari	Street in Bangkok

Erawan Shrine	Kids splashing out for the Water Festival	Making flower offerings	Royal Palace grounds	Entrance guard	A bronze statue and I	A glimpse of me in a decorative mirror	Offerings at Wat Phra Kaew	Grand Palace Hall	Palace buildings

Royal guards on the move	Policeman handing out a fine	Young folks offering some talc	Splashing out on the cars	Quiet life on temple grounds	Impressive water power to splash cars	Kids organised to max out the splash	A great outdoor restaurant	Outdoor restaurant at night	Reclining Buddha

Head of the reclining Buddha	Reclining Buddha head	Reclining my head	Beautiful mother-of-pearl engravings	Cups for coin offerings	Procession of coin offerings	Writing wishes in Wat Pho	Making flower offerings	Lotus flower offerings	Blessing Buddha images

Blessings by a priest	Receiving a bracelet	Blessing a monk statue	Phahurat Market lane	Inside a Sikh temple	Wat Thepthidaram	Thai kid playing in the sand	Buddha of Wat Thepthidaram	Water lily to brighten up the Golden Mount	Wat Saket at the top of the Golden Mount

Prayers on the Golden Mount	View of Bangkok	Running on the burning ground	View of Singapore's center from Mount Faber	The commercial harbour	Vivocity and Sentosa	Loud laughing thrush birds in the trees	Young mantis climbing on me	A young mantis crawls on me	Harbourfront seen from Mount Faber

Snake charmer in Sentosa	Speeding on the luge in Sentosa	Skyride in Sentosa	Contrasts at East Coast Park	The bedroom of Kamala Beach Estate	Living room of the Kamala Beach Estate	Morning rises in Kamala	Fisherman boats	Around Kamala	Temple and boats in Kamala

Tsunami Hazard Zone	Kamala Beach Estate seen from Kamala Beach	Taking off from the north-east of Phuket	First glimpse of the limestone cliffs	Beauty of Phang Nga Bay	The islands emerge from the mist	Fish eagles soart close to the boat	Swooping fish eagles	Gazing at the impressive cliffs	Limestone islands

The guides await us	Impressive rocks and plants	Our boat, seen from the canoe	Entering the cave to access the lagoon	Coming out of the cave	Inside the lagoon of Ko Panuk	Coming out of the cave	Navigating along the islands	Small black egrets guard the bat cave	Inside Bat Cave

Lagoon accessed from the Bat Cave	Beaufiful mangrove	A mudskipper in the mangrove	Our beautiful self-made offerings	Bar in Patong	Butterfly in the forest	At the Bang Pae Falls	Thais at the Bang Pae Falls	Gibbons being rehabilitated	Young gibbons in the rehabilitation centre

View of Phuket Town	Sino-portuguese style mansion	A beautiful house in Phuket Town	Thanon Dibuk houses	Traffic life	Pool of Kamala Beach Estate	Night in Kamala	MC Pirate	Finishing the evening	Birthday dinner Au Jardin

Candles in a Buddhist temple	Patterns of empty spots for Buddha statuettes	Buddha for the Year of the Snake	A new Buddhist temple	The luxurious garden on the roof	Roof of the Buddha Tooth Temple	Old OCBC building in Chinatown	Sri Mariamman temple	Behind the scenes of Boat Quay	Raffles statue at the alleged place of his landing

The Marina scene	Looking back to the mouth of the Singapore River	Marina Bay scene by night	Aurelia takes a shot at the turtles	Flower in the Botanical Gardens	A bug out of camouflage	Walking towards Boat Quay	Botero's bird, by the Singapore River	New wing of the Museum of Singapore	Dome of the Museum of Singapore

Crowds packed to see some of the action	Someone has fainted	National Day Parade	View from our hotel in Miri	Fish market stalls	Tua Pek Kong temple	Images on the Tua Pek Kong temple	Altar of the Tua Pek Kong temple	Inside the Tua Pek Kong temple	A charming lantern

Altar candles	An imposing dragon	Back of the Tua Pek Kong temple	Playing in the late afternoon	2 of our dinner lobsters	Fresh lobster for dinner!	Our dry butter masterpiece lobster	Nesting swallows next to our hotel room	Beautiful river in Sarawak	Impressive approach to the caves

Clearing from which to admire the Deer Cave	Inside Lang Cave	Entrance of Lang Cave	The amazing formations	Cave formations	Deer Cave entrance	Lush nature at the mouth of Deer Cave	Inside Deer Cave	Bats leaving Deer Cave	Bats flying off at dusk

Some of the 2-3 million bats flying off tonight	Sunset on Mulu NP	The entrance of the Royal Mulu Resort	Colours of Sarawak at the Royal Mulu Resort	Drinking an independence cocktail	Pool of the Royal Mulu Resort	A lost moth	Pretending to eat a moth	Decorations of the Royal Mulu Resort	Lovely surroundings of the Royal Mulu Resort

The river awaits us	On board the long boat	Morning life along the river	Scenery on the river	Penan settlement village	A local chicken in the village	A young boy sees us approaching	Longhouse in a Penan settlement	Penan village	An old lady plays a tune

The long house	Children in the river	Tourist boats pass by the village	Inside the Wind Cave	King's Chamber in the Wind Cave	River near the Clearwater Cave	Boat stop near Clearwater Cave	A giant squirrel passes by	A well camouflaged lizard	A small lizard climbs away

A damselfly makes a halt	Jackfruit tree?	A large stick insect	One of the rare butterflies to land	Views from the canopy walk	Impressive lianas dropping down to the stream	Beautiful new leaves	A still dragonfly grants me a close-up	Our first pitcher plant	The bridge out of Mulu NP

Hitching a ride	Dining hall	Traditional dances	Showing dances from various tribes	More local dances	Pilot of our small propeller plane	Endless jungle below us	A small waterfall in Lambir NP	Strange round circles in the stream	Impressive view at the end of the walk

The nice waterfall	Training for boat races	Evening life on the Sarawak River	Modern and old in Kuching	The former courthouse	Central Kuching colonial architecture	Bako village houses on stilts	Beautiful views of Bako arise	Bako morning waters	A lone fisherman in Bako

Mangrove at the Bako landing point	A bearded pig and a macaque in the Bako camp	Bearded pig grazing in the camp	Close-up on this strange pig	Roots everywhere along the path	Making our way along a trail	Telok Paku beach	An interesting insect	A camouflaged gecko	Beauty of a pitcher plant

Large pitcher plants on the ground	Another sort of pitcher plant	Pitcher plant on the floor	Ground pitcher plants	A colony of ants moves along	Close-up on the impressive ant colony on the move	Views from the top of Bako	View from Bako heights	Macaque near the end of the Jln Lintang trail	A silver leaf monkey!

And now a baby silver leaf monkey	The baby silver leaf monkey explores	Looking into the eyes	I can't watch enough of mother and baby	Close-up on the baby monkey	Eating peacefully in the trees	Intriguing rock motifs	Bako National Park scenery	Mangroves in Bako	A plover in the mangrove

Fiddler crabs	One of so many impressive dipterocarps	More roots along the path	Habitat of the proboscis monkey	Mangrove trees entangled	A glimpse of a proboscis monkey	I manage to catch a better view	A younger monkey is visible	It's a young male	Leaving Bako NP at low tide

Our boatman jumps in	Fishing nets in Bako	A big mudskipper	A bright turquoise crab	Slow river life	Hornbill symbolising Sarawak	Top Spot Food Court	An orangutan approaches above us	It's a mother with a baby clinging on	The mother descends to the feeding platform

Picking up fruits	Young orangutan feeding	The mother has grabbed 3 fruits at once	A beautiful wildlife scene	Semenggoh Rehabilitation Centre charm	A young orangutan messes around	Teenager Saddam the orangutan	Mother and son near some fruit handouts	Explanations on the hornbill	The old courthouse by day

Padang in central Kuching	Sarawak museum	At the Singapore Zoo with a tamarind	A Malayan tapir	White tigers of the Singapore Zoo	Esplanade Theatre	Clarke Quay lights	Before dinner	Admire my shirt :-)	Pan Pacific Hotel Chinese restaurant

Flow of cars at night	Eating Japanese at the Chijmes	The pool for diving lessons	Listening to the Dive Master	Ferry terminal in Mersing	Waiting for the ferry at 6.30am	On board the speed boat to Tioman	Fishing boats in Mersing	Inside the speedboat to Tioman	An early and fast ride to Tioman

Arriving in northwest Tioman	The beach of Tioman	The sky darkens	Rough seas off Tioman	Getting ready for the dives	Contrasts of light at sea	Tioman beach	Off we go, goodbye Tioman	The Mersing special burger	Values of Gleneagles

Awards at Gleneagles	The clue for the last team stop	The view from our empty flat	Leaving our Harbourlights flat	Bassorah Street	The living room view	View of the city at sunset	Renovation works in our apartment	The mess of our dining room	Western view from the study room

View of the living room	The dining room	A reindeer and I	At the Singapore Zoo	A marmoset at the Singapore Zoo	Elephants on the move at the Singapore Zoo	Elephants holding each other	The male pigmy hippo shows his dominance	Wehda and Bissan look at a sloth	A sloth on the move

The pink dolphin trainer	Jumping dolphin	Synchronised dolphins	A stunning race to the finishing line	A dog grooming shop	Training kids to kayak	On my way to the Ubin ferry terminal	Boats from the boat to Pulau Ubin	Arriving in Pulau Ubin	Off goes our bumboat

A jetty on Pulau Ubin	All the bicycle shops	Striking a Singaporean pose	A quiet monitor lizard	Close to the monitor lizard	Taking a picture of a monitor lizard	Kids look out to Malaysia	Goddess of Mercy shrine and quarry lake	Ubin Quarry and surrounding trees	The MCC Ubin Resort

Plenty to play with at the MCC Ubin Resort	An impressive tower	Quarry with many nesting herons	Our stop for lunch	Eating shrimp for lunch	Black cobra slithering away	Black cobra threatening me	A viewing tower at Chek Jawa	Chek Jawa view from the tower	Mudskipper

Ecovolunteers in the seagrass beds	Oriental pied hornbill checking me out	Oriental pied hornbill standing proudly	Mussels on the jetty	Fiddler crabs	Swiftlets on Pulau Ubin	Collared kingfisher	A frog at the East Coast Park	The frog is happy in a water puddle	Basketball near home

Passing the ball to Wehda	Going for the shot	The Merlion is lit up for New Year's	Lights for New Year's	Lights for New Year's	Change in lights on the marina	Yellow lit Merlion	Fireworks for the New Year	Fireworks from the future Integrated Resort	The sky is ablaze

Lights in the sky near the Merlion	The grand finale of the New Year fireworks