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Kampung Numbak

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I discovered Kampung Numbak using Wikimapia, a mash up of Google Maps and Wikipedia, while staying at 1Borneo, a megamall on the outskirts of Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah. After finding it online I decided to pay Numbak a visit. There was something very strange about the juxtaposition of Borneo’s biggest mall and this impoverished village of 5,000 a stone’s throw away.

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Numbak from the hillside.
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NIKON D3100
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AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
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Numbak.
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NIKON D3100
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AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
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1/250 sec
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Numbak taxi stand.
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NIKON D3100
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AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
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ƒ / 7.1
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1/200 sec
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Trash on the shores of Numbak.
The children of Numbak
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NIKON D3100
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AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
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1/250 sec
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The children of Numbak expressing nationalist sentiments.
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NIKON D3100
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AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
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ƒ / 7.1
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1/200 sec
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18.0 mm
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100
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13.3 EV
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Numbak from the waterside.
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NIKON D3100
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AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
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ƒ / 7.1
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1/200 sec
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18.0 mm
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100
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13.3 EV
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Chilling in Numbak.
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NIKON D3100
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AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
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1/200 sec
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100
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13.3 EV
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1Borneo from the university grounds.
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NIKON D3100
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AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
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100
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A mysterious concrete monument.
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NIKON D3100
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AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
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100
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Pipes on the ground.
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AF-S DX Zoom-Nikkor 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6G ED II
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A long walk through a desolate campus at sundown.

More from this trip can be seen by clicking here: Malaysia.

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Series: Malaysia 2013

A series of posts about my first trip to Malaysia in early 2013. I visited Sabah, Kuala Lumpur, and Malacca over the course of three weeks.

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Alexander Synaptic
Curator, Spectral Codex

I am a web application developer, photojournalist, urban explorer, and history enthusiast passionate about the open web and documenting my experiences on this planet. This project was founded in the early 2010s and has evolved into a sort of personal Wikipedia of places that interest me (and often the photographs I’ve taken there). I’m originally from Toronto, Canada, but spend most of my time residing in Taiwan.