Hsiang Garden Hotel Sandakan

... they like nothing more than to get closy under your clothes before sucking your blood! We looked interesting in our outfits which were cobbled together to ensure that the minimum amount of skin was on show. The walk was actually much easier than we though it was going to be as we had built up some expedition in our minds. We saw lots of evidence of the pigmy elephants in the area - footprints and elephant dung but sadly no elephants in person. In the ...

... more than a few days of sightseeing. I am working very hard to travel, meet people and write this blog at the same time, so pls be patient.


I went to Sandakan, a city at the eastern coast of Sabah, Malaysia, for my junior high school class reunion. Last time I did that it was in 1999, the first ...

... Lodge restaurant for lunch. After he drives to the next feeding platform and around 4:30 he drives back to Sandalak and the return is also 15 R. There is an admission fee to Labuk Bay and I think it is 50R + 10R for the camera fee but it is so worth it. Saw many Proboscis monkeys, macaques and also I finally saw hornbills.

If you take a taxi it ...

... nice people. So, we had great company for our entertaining last night.

The next river trip was a bit of a non event as it was cut short at less than half distance due to a lack of petrol!

Then back at camp there was a power cut – so we ate out dinner by candle light (who knows what it was, but it tasted OK!)

Just as the night hike was about to leave the lights came back on – big cheer!

Last night in out rat infested hut, we were woken ...

We flew up to Kota Kinabalu (KK for a very reasonable amount, RM226 (39 pounds) for the two of us. This saved us a lot of time and transfers of buses. We’d stopped for a night in KK just as a pit stop and next morning shipped out on the express bus to Sandakan with the purpose of finding a couple of nights at the Kinabatangan River where there was good reports of wildlife ...

We flew across to Borneo and it was an early start for our adventure to Turtle Island. The short transfer from our hotel to the pier took us from relative civilisation to the middle of the Borneo jungle. After being stranded on a pier with two Aussies, John and Pauline (John looked distinctly like Harold from Neighbours), we had a short speedboat ride out to Libaran Island which was a small desert ...

... took us to Sepilok - The Oran Utang rehabilitation sanctuary. We enjoyed it immensely and got some great photos at feeding time. We were lucky to see a mother with a 3 month old baby. There was also a pregnant Orang Utan that kept climbing onto the walkways. We watched a Tom and Jerry episode between a greedy long-tailed Macaque and a black squirrel. The monkey ate more bananas ...

... goodbye and awaited for joanne ( women that runs the place ) to check me out, even though i offered to check out the night before! anyhow, all went well, but she ordered the taxi a mere 30 minutes prior to my flight closing.. Craaap i was naturally ******** myself, Air asia arent known for there chilled out nature with check ins, and its always " buy another ticket " . i was lucky, my taxi driver was ouber fast and got me there just in time ...

... catch the short flight to Sandakan, on the north-east coast, a mere 45 minutes, this time with Malaysian Airlines (no hard-sell, no supertight uniforms). We were picked up on arrival, together with another English couple, Lucy and Adrian, who were on their honeymoon. Our guide, Jamie, was incredibly pleasant and within a few minutes we were all well and truly having a good time (especially Adrian who Jamie had stated bore more than a passing resemblence to ...

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