SABAH | The Best of Borneo
I spent just over a week on the island of Borneo, in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah and fell in love with the place. The island is home to so much social and biological diversity. After a full on week island hopping, snorkeling, rafting, animal watching and much more, I felt like I had done a pretty thorough trip, only to realize that I had barely scratched inland of the island. Definitely will be returning as there is so much more to see. Love Malaysia!
Poem:
Salut au Monde by Walt Whitman, read courtesy of ASMR Book Reader. For more great content from him check out his channel: / @asmrbookreader9153
O TAKE my hand, Walt Whitman!
Such gliding wonders! such sights and sounds!
Such join’d unended links, each hook’d to the next!
Each answering all—each sharing the earth with all.
What widens within you, Walt Whitman?
What waves and soils exuding?
What climes? what persons and lands are here?
...
What rivers are these? what forests and fruits are these?
What are the mountains call’d that rise so high in the mists?
What myriads of dwellings are they, fill’d with dwellers?
Within me latitude widens, longitude lengthens;
Asia, Africa, Europe, are to the east—America is provided for in the west;
Banding the bulge of the earth winds the hot equator,
Curiously north and south turn the axis-ends;
Within me is the longest day—the sun wheels in slanting rings—it does not set for months;
Stretch’d in due time within me the midnight sun just rises above the horizon, and sinks
again;
Within me zones, seas, cataracts, plants, volcanoes, groups,
Malaysia, Polynesia, and the great West Indian islands.