Sandakan Prison Camp Memorial

Debo reconocer que con esto se me caerá el carnet y se darán cuenta lo viejo que estoy…la primera vez que vi el nombre de la ciudad…pensé que era Sandokan…como la serie india de hace como 30 años…sí…ya lo sé, estoy viejo…pero es Sandakan y no tiene ni una relación con la serie…

Bueno, Sandakan es …

Hotel Shangri-La

As we seem to have flash visited most destinations here, I think it's easiest to divide the Borneo trip into two entries, by province, first Sabah, where we had 5 stops and then Sarawak where we are heading to next.

We flew from Singapore to Borneo’s capital Kota Kinabalu (KK). We were due to join our tour …

Sandakan Memorial Park – Lest we forget, lest we forget.



The Sandakan Memorial Park commemorates a tragedy and an atrocity. The tragedy was the death, between January and August 1945, within sight of Allied victory in the Pacific war, of approximately 2400 Australian and British POWs, held by the Japanese in the camp at …

Sabah hotel was a nice 4 star hotel on some big grounds - quite nice. We got hotel to organise a car and driver to show us some of the sights as we only has about 2hrs. Went to Agnes Keiths house, she wrote some books in 30's and 40's on Borneo. The house was rebuilt after WWII and a lovely place with a huge bedroom. Funny photo of her giving …