High Street Inn Kota Kinabalu

... humid sun fueled sauna. Wow...a visit to an amazing beach combined with a complimentary salt scrub and shrinkwrap. Just think of the millions of bucks dog eaters across the globe could save on their spa treatments by just copying this simple dress code!!

Am I being insensitive to their bathing needs? Yeah, probably. But do I honestly care what people wear? Nope, not in the slightest. People wearing all that mess doesn't even affect my life. Go ahead ...

... a manger sur la terrasse sur le bord de la mer avant de revenir en ville.

on a marcher pas mal dans le nord de la ville puis on a trouver un petit resto chinois super propre, tres populaire a pres des gens d'ici, mais nous etions les seul touristes!

Jusqu'a present, notre choix de restaurant est excellent, on trouve toujours des mets a saveur local pour des prix ridicule, et je dois dire que : c'est bon!

... metres. The trek started off really well and we made good time up to the 3rd and 4th rest points, after this point the air becomes a lot thinner and it really started to get tough. I was setting the pace for the first part of the climb and i think we may have went to quickly really, the best way to climb apparently is slow and steady but i can't do that. After 3 or 4 hours we slowwed down loads, not by choice, but because we just couldn't go any faster. The air is a lot thinner at ...

... from Miri was Linus, who was staying at the same hostel as Camilla, and who was coincidentally booked on the same Air Asia flight to Singapore. Another slow day was spent chatting and finishing off my updating of photographs. Despite checking in at the same time, Linus and I ended up at different ends of the plane, but the journey to Singapore was a short and uneventful trip.

... we saw Nikola jogging along the beach. It felt like coming home to our own little secluded piece of earth, and seeing a familiar face there made it even better. The day passed so quickly, without us knowing where all the time went. But I reckon swimming, tanning and drinking ice tea can be very time consuming after all. And not to forget the mind riddles we played throughout ...

... make it. As a result, we decided to make this our base and take daytrips out. It was a really welcome relief not to have to pack every day as my bag is now at bursting point and every days packing is a real effort. Incidentally, Ju's 90 litre bag weighed 13kg at the airport and my 35 litre one weighed 11kg! That's how stuffed full it is! So from our lovely guesthouse, we set off. Firstly, out to see to visit one of the five beautiful ...

... and an ice cream and just decided to relax and read our books for a while. Then at about half two we transferred by boat to Sapi, which was absolutely gorgeous. A tiny islands, with white sand beaches and the best beach combing I have ever seen. We found a whole collection of great shells - including two giant clam shells which we were very sad to have to leave behind. We had another snorkel here and we tried out the underwater ...

... de soleil, nous avons quand meme prit le temps de regarder avant la recherche de l'hotel. Pas de bordel cette fois-ci. Un sympatique "guest house". La ville nous semble super le fun et jolie . Nous etions tout excite de voir qu'il y avait du monde dans les rues apres 9.00heures. Nous avons manger Japonnais ce soir. Et deviner on a acheter une biere. A votre sante Bisouxxxxxxxxx France et Rejean

... influence means it's easier to communicate like this). After the previous night's Chineese theatre, it was time to say goodbye to Brunei and hello to Sabah, Malaysian Borneo's adventure state. After an equally complex journey by bus and boat, I arrive in the state capital of Kota Kinabalu. We made quite an entrance. With a window seat I could see our boat draw closer to the dock, when suddenly everyone on the pier started running. As the boat's ...

for now just know, we hiked up a big mountain, I saw a 4 foot crocodile, lots of oranutans (and 1 in the wild), I fed a leech way too much of my own blood, and there was one leech on the crouch of my pants (luckily he didnt get in), and i had an enormous scorpion running around on my arm for about a minute... the biggest damn scorpion I have ever seen in my life!