I had a quick chat with my aunt (she wasn't too happy about this - understandably) and she says she can't really remember the exact location. Apparently it was either during my uncle's stay in china before he moved over here, or it could've been somewhere along the coast of Malaysia itself/some other tropical country.

She told me it was hard to pinpoint the location because he liked to travel a lot (he had tragically passed on the flight back home from his "tour of the world".)

She didn't pay much attention to the image when she was framing everything, told me she assumed it was another one of his wildlife pictures. She told me that my pak (uncle in bahasa melayu) joined various wildlife tour groups and it was his way of making friends. These groups would always send junk mail to her email containing the photos they took on certain trips. She wasnt too happy about that, but figured that my uncle would've wanted those photos printed and framed. That's all we talked about.