This is the trip that everyone who kindly gave us money as a wedding present funded and I can tell you now its beats a toaster any day. We had to make our way across to Kota Kinabula in Borneo, where we were meeting our group. There was 12 of us all together. Our leader was a 33 year old Australia guy who was good fun. We went straight into the ...

We arrived in Kota Kinabalu at about 9pm and got a, rather pricey, cab in to town as the buses had stopped running. We arrived in the main, if you can call it that, backpacker area and wander around a few of the guesthouses to find digs for the night. Several were full and several other were seemingly a bit over priced. After wandering around on...

Once we had finished at the excellent Uncle Tan's we had to head back to Kota Kinabalu. A journey of maybe 10hrs in total. While we trod water until our flight back to Johor Bahru, England lost the Rugby World Cup Final to South Africa.

I went back KK earlier than my family... I need to go back to work...urghhh....

Staying at Akinabalu Youth Hostel , planning to try to get ourselves to Mount Kinabalu tonight, to start the 2 day climb to the top by tomorrow. We plan to try to stay at one of the Sutera Sanctuary Lodges , hoping they have room for last minute travelers. We just spent 1 night in KK, since we were eager to get out and start exploring the natura...

Hi have now arrived in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. We are staying in a large resort so have been spending our days on the beach and in the pool as it is very hot. We went for a bike ride for an hour the other afternoon and it was very very hot. We needed to jump straight into the water when we got back. The bikes were as old as the hills, very rust...

We spent this morning visiting the De Villa Orchid Farm on a very interesting guided tour organised by the Sabah Nature Society. Raymond's Travel Page