Hotel Samila Sandakan

... Tanjung Aru Resort in Kota Kinabalu, to small hotels, homestays, lodges and longhouses. I am always happy and content wherever I stay and have made many dear friends during my travels either with the staff in the accommodation, guides or locals.<br><br>I have climbed Mount Kinabalu spurred on by my wonderful guide Singgi Lunsin - reaching the summit to await what was a fantastic sunrise.<br><br>Leaches love me - I have some hair-raising tales ...

... group and as no lights are allowed you use torches to go across the beach - Jason has the torch - so it was more a case of me stumbling through the dark through the big holes dug by turtles on previous laying sessions to try and get to the group around the turtle. I made it just as she layed her last egg and Jason joined shortly after. The turtle was agreen turtle and probably was about 4 feet wide. She layed around 49 eggs in total. We then ...

... boat and gliding off into the darkness, powerless to see where we were headed other than brief glimpses of the water&#8217;s surface as the spotlight passed. And quite a thrill when on occasion we zoomed off across the river towards the other side at speed, into the darkness, unable to make out anything in front of us however hard we strained our eyes. The undisturbed surface of the water either side of the boat gave glass-like reflections of the ...

... mammals, as they tend to sleep during the heat of the day.<br>Back to camp and lunch, followed by cards and relaxing in the hammocks. That afternoon we went for a boat ride for about a minute before turning back soaking wet. There was light rain when we left, but a couple minutes later it was absolutely bucketing down with plenty of thunder and lightning. With everybody thoroughly drenched, we turned back to camp as it was too dangerous.<br>We went back and played more cards until another ...

... lazily with one leg bent und** and th**e **** and the oth** stretched out like you would sitting down on the corn** of the settee on a Sunday aft**noon. Despite th**e apparent laziness when they moved they could and at speed they would fly from tree to tree. As darkness fell we headed back onto the riv** for a night safari. The guide armed with a spot light would scan around looking for sign of wildlife. He wasn&#8217;t v**y successful&#8230; we seen a monitor lizard lying on ...

I arrived in Sepilok with Corrine from Mount Kinabalu after the roughest bus ride I have ever taken! A lot of the journey was winding down hills and mountains on less than perfect roads, but even on the straight parts of the road the driver had a tendency to swing from side to side, possibly to avoid the many pot holes en route. We arrived at a hotel Corrine had booked, that fortunately offered a dorm room, which was ideal for me as a budget traveller! Even ...

... for a lot of you but when you have been wearing the same 2 bras and sports bras for the last 2 months....new bras are extremely exciting. Once again no underwear because they only make underwear for Barbie Dolls over here...and it rained. 05/10/09 More relaxing today. Watched movies and blogged, packed and decided to go to Semporna. And it rained.

... at Sandakan and decide to leave the backpackers alone for a night and for just over double the price (but still cheap) we are in a really nice hotel with proper showers (fantastic) and adjoinging rooms with a sea view. Really nice to have a treat occasionally and after the last 4-5 days we are all pretty tired. So a quiet day tomorrow I think and then Orangatans and the jungle for a stay which we will sort out tomorrow as there seems to be a few options. We had a lovely meal ...

... So we set off and straight away we saw a Brahminy Kite sleeping on a tree branch, but he awoke and flew off before long. It was so dark I don't know how the guides spotted everything - but we saw lots of beautiful wildlife. They illuminated everything for us with a torch. The highlights were the Buffy Fish Owl - which we got really close to, and didn't seem too scared - but kind of arched its wings back in a protecting - its area kind of ...

... France et Rejean P.S.#1 Nous serons probablement pas capable de vous ecrire pour Noel puisque nous serons au Mont-Kinabalu a 4,000 metre d'altitude. Ne vous inquiete pas, c'est un parc nationnal, avec des guides, un auberge pour coucher en haut, le 24 decembre et redescendons le 25. Donc vous n'aurez pas de nouvelle d'ici ce temps. P.S.#2 Profiter bien pour fetee et vous amuser, prenez un verre de vin a notre sante, parce-que nous on en a pas. (*)^%^&(