Hello everyone, We're safe and sound in the wonderful city of Kuching in the state of Sarawak on Malaysian Borneo. Kuching is a wonderful amalgamation of many worlds wrapped in rivers and cradled between the jungle and the ocean. We chose this area to use as our hub solely for it's geographic accessibility and it seems we chose wisely. We truly ...

We arrived in Kuching at 4AM, unsure of what to do. Seeing that the one place that we were thinking of staying was closed, we wandered a bit, and then gave up easily. By 5 AM we were sitting at a Chinese restaurant that was crawling towards its opening, at 5:30. Two men were cutting up and grinding pork, without their shirts on. One of the custo...

I'm slowly typing each letter into the computer as I revel in the cheapness of the internet here. Well, a combination of cheap internet and immense heat. So immense that everything moves slowly, even my fingers. In Australia we tried to purposefully not work out the price of things we were buying (this is quite hard to do because it's almost exa...

This final leg of the Borneo adventure had a really early start to it! Discounting the food/pee stop of the overnight coach, the day commenced at 5.40am at the Indonesian-Malaysian border where we had to leave the (not-so) creature comforts of the coach and wait among throngs of travellers eager to enter Malaysia.. It sure was a surreal feeling....

Hello, Bonjour, Selamat Pagi! Hopefully this time I'll be able to write this without any problems... Our time in Borneo so far has been very exciting, and we've only just begun. On Sunday, we started out with the Sunday market, which takes up probably about a square mile of space,(a peu pres 1km carre) it's amazing. They sell everything from foo...

Boarded a plane to Kuching and landed up at the best backpackers yet - Borneo B&B Inn in Greenhill. This friendly establishment is run by Bidas and May, now know as Mum and Dad to me. After going for a chest x-ray the doctor advised me to take it easy so my chest muscles could recover - which I did!! Here on the sofa at Borneo B&B is where I met...

I arrived in Kuching yesterday. In keeping with the make-as-may-friends-as-possible spirit, I met Betty, a 25-year-old Malaysian woman, who sat next to me on the plane. Although she was not a backpacker (she was travelling for work), she and I talked the whole plane ride, and she told me about this lodge that I'm staying at right now. She was ev...

hey everyone, feels like i havent updated for a long time. i didnt managed to finish the KL update either, opps. in kuching at the moment, which is in Malaysian Borneo, Sarawak. it the capital city and is really cool. the people here are genuinly friendly and helpful and the city is very pretty, well manicured and a mixture of old colonial build...

Finally managed to drag myself out of bed about 9:30, no trouble sleeping after the journey. View from hotel window is almost a riverside view - can see a small part of the waterfront. Got outside to a blast of warm humid air (32 degrees apparently) and pottered down the waterfront. The city is superb - very clean and green. Maps everywhere so i...

As I look out the window of my tiny twin-engine airplane, I am overwhelmed with the vast jungle that lies below. I am enroute to Gunung Mulu National Park in Sarawak, Borneo. It is here is that my husband and I are climbing to The Pinnacles. A stone forest of white and grey limestone, jutting 45 metres out of the earth in razor sharp formations....