NAK Hotel Sandakan

... and they won't charge us again so might as well whilst we're here.<br><br>Decided we are going to leave a night early from here as seen all and more than we wanted to do and Matt is proper on one about the mosquitos, he's made us sleep with the mossi net over our faces in KL and everything!!! lol<br><br>Hope al is well, will catch up in either Sandakan town centre our next stop or after our time in Singapore.<br><br>Love<br><br>Hayley and Matt<br>

... bit of a mad frenzy of about 50 people getting over excited with their camera we got a real treat when an adult and kid descended out the trees on to the board walk a couple of feet away from us. It was just so striking the similarity between these creatures and emma. Rained all afternoon but managed to get a 2 day jungle excursion booked up to the Kinabatangan river. This is where the real big bugs are so should be a good test of my mettle or lack of it!<br><br><br><br><br>

... place. The shower, basin and toilet filled with river water which I was OK with but Sarah was clearly not!<br>Day four of the tour follwed a similar wildlife theme with a jungle treck around Oxbow lake in the morning. I discovered the second ommission from the brochere...the fact that the area we were walking in was known for tiger leeches....nice :) So we had to invest in some leech socks before the walk and make sure all our clothes were ticked in as ...

26 August:<br>We caught a bus for KK to Sandakan around eight. It was surprisingly straight forward, we were advised to arrive at the bus station two hours early, so we had intended on getting the ten o'clock bus. However when we arrived, at ten to eight they put us straight on a bus and charged us around half what we'd expected to pay, and off we went. The journey took about six hours and was relatively comfortable. We were also pleasantly surprised by our hotel, it ...

... was just Martyn and I for the jungle hike. We set off in our hired leech socks and wellies. Not much wildlife about as it was hot and sticky (and they had more sense!) but a nice leech free muddy walk to an oxbow lake which actually just looked like another bit of the river (but it has been cut off from the main river).<br><br>Back at camp and we lazed about on the hammocks till the new recruits arrived. A game couple from S. Australia (in their 60&#8217;s) and a Spanish guy ...

... that very day, i wandered down to it but was pretty dissapointed. It turned out to be an agricultural festival so the only things really going on was people selling live stock and talking about tractors. It was pretty rubbish really and it got worse when a massive tropical downfall started and lasted most of the night.<br><br>The next day i went deep into the rainforest to a naure lodge on the edge of the kinabatan river, the only way to get there ...

... of mothering at the hands of the local taxi drivers who told tales of buses taking over 2 hours to get Kuala Besut and it was a great deal they where offering us, despite the fact that I told them I could get the bus in just under an hour and only for around 6 MYR.<br> 1 hour wait and we were then on the local bus where we spread ou;t and promptly fell asleep. We only awoke when a tour rep jumped onto the bus to tell us we was at Kuala Besut and the ferry terminal. His ...

... and really treat them like their mothers. By the time they're visiting the feeding platforms they're nearly ready to go it alone &amp; many just swing off into the jungle from Sepilok, never to be seen again. This is why the keeper found it hard to answer these questions! In the end by not talking in massive American voices about how good our zooms were, by not having children screeching and by just sitting quietly they came back ...

... of the paths to the feeding platform - of encountering a very curious orangutan coming out of the trees. (There are a few such platforms located throughout the center, to help the orangutans with their transition back to the wild - visitors can watch feedings at one of the platforms twice during the day. As the orangs progressively become more comfortable with being in the wild, they move to platforms farther and farther into the forest.) I stood to watch the orangutan with a few ...

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