Showing posts with label SCUBA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SCUBA. Show all posts

Friday, August 08, 2008

Travel Geography Podcast #64: Diving at Lembeh Strait, Indonesia

This is a Geography for Travelers Podcast related post This is a Travel Geography Podcast related post (click on the title above to download the .mp3 file)

This podcast is a series of four audio postcards that I made in May 2008 when I went diving at the Lembeh Strait near the city of Manado on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. This is near the center of the Coral Triangle of Southeast Asia. They were originally published on my travelography 2.0 podcast. Here, I have combined them into a single podcast.

(about 45 minutes long)

Photo: Pygmy Seahorse (copyright Alan A. Lew, all rights reserved)

More photos from thi trip described here can be found on my Flickr.com site.



Photo: Electric Clam, lodged in a crevice in a sea wall (Creative Commons Copyright Alan A. Lew, non-commercial, attribution, share-alike)

The homepage for this podcast is at TravelGeography.info

Thursday, January 25, 2007

Kota Kinablau, Sabah


Photo: Me at Mount Kinabalu, Sabah
Additional photos of my Sabah visit can be found at: http://flickr.com/photos/alew


Do you ever find yourself in a situation where you unexpectedly get all the things you were wishing for? Well that happened to me here in Malaysia last week.

As I write this I am at the Universiti of Teknologi MARA in Shah Alam, on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur. I am here in my capacity as an External Examiner for the tourism degree program. An External Examiner is a concept from the British system of higher education and is technically someone who is brought to the university each year to review the final examination papers to ensure rigor. These days, however, the position involves consultation on a wide range of curricular matters....

For the full blog entry go here:
http://seasiatourism.blogspot.com/2007/01/kota-kinablau-sabah.html

For all the photos from this trip, go to my Flickr site and search on "Sabah"
http://flickr.com/photos/alew