Telang Usan Hotel Miri

... how else we could get there at that time of the morning. I was just thinking that we obviously should have just spend a little bit more time trying to find somewhere in town to save money and the hassle of taxis, bus etc out to Treetops. <br>Treetops was amazing though and I quickly fell myself relaxing. The food was amazing too. They has a DVD room so will chilled out for the evening, a first time in a long time...and I prepared myself for the flight in the morning!

... driver - now here was a fellow at one with his bus. Cautious overtaker but demon on the accelerator we made up the time that we had lost stuck behind a miriad of trucks on the first leg and arrived in Miri at about 11.30pm. Just so you get an idea, Kuching is 922km away from Miri by road and since we had left Kuching we had travelled over 1200km as we had gone to Kapit, then further up river still and then back again! <br><br>We were approached by the first ...

... i thought Mulu National Park was just like Tawau National Park. All natural and quiet, with nothing much to do. <br><br>When i reached there, i was amazed that it was a World Heritage Site and it was much bigger than Tawau National Park. There was a largest cave there as well (DEER cave), where millions of bats accomodated in. <br><br>We visited some of the caves and nature walk there.<br><br>Caves<br>- Deer Cave<br>- Lang ...

I arrived in Miri around midday, and went to a hostel run by a lady that became affectionately known as "mad cat lady"! If anyone has seen the cat lady in The Simpsons who throws cats as passers by, that was this lady in real life! There were seven cats in the hostel, one of which I think was actually hers, and the other six were from different litters from strays. She loved the cats, but handled them in an unusual way; for example, she dragged one of ...

... and evening. Bintulu is just a transit point for me to travel north to Brunei and Sabah. Had to make a difficult decision today. Will have to sacrifice my visit to the Philippines unfortunately. I had a flight booked too, which is non refundable. There're two reasons for this decision. Firstly, there's so much I want to do in Indonesia, I now have 24 days there, which still isn't enough time but it's better than the 14 days which was the original plan. Secondly, flying from ...

... en pantalon, t-shirt manches longues, grosses chaussures de marche montantes. Le guide pieds nus et en short et toi, t'as pris l'option intermédiaire, t'es en sandales, pantacourt et t-shirt. Résultat des courses, il y a 2 cons qui se sont choppés des sangsues et ce sont... le guide et moi... A jouer au con... <br><br>Ah oui, je me la pète beaucoup moins avec mon niveau de malais. Je viens de faire une grande découverte. Le mot 'kapan' qui ...

Oh yes, here we are, finally, in Bintulu. We're heard the name mentionned as a religious ritual in our department back in Amsterdam that it has to be seen to be a worthy member of the GTL clan. Actually, I'm beginning to agree with the Lonely Planet description: "insignificant". "Ne vaut pas le detour" I would say. It didn't start on a great note, since we arrived without our luggage. Five of us had traveled from Amsterdam and run ...

On our way down the Sarawak coast we stopped for a night in Sibu, the gateway up the reiver to visit some Iban longhouses, but we didn't have time to stop so we continued on early the next morning. We reached Kuching by ferry from Sibu and 7am on a Sunday morning and by lunch time we were in the city. Kuching is by far the most modern city we had been to in a long time (since Australia?) and was interesting mostly for its ...

... in Bintulu. Our friend Michael told us that as long as we were going around the world we should stop in to see his brother Dave and sister-in-law Carol in Sarawak. Turns out they live in Bintulu. But they are real people with regular work a day lives, including two young girls in elementary school, even though they live in this jungle paradise. School means vacations and they are leaving town to go to Bangkok April 1 for the kid's spring break. So we have to get there before they ...

... means- just gravel, mud and huuuuuge potholes in the ground. So time came, when we hopped aboard on a local 4-wheel drive to experience the thrust of a 5 hour drive to a junction, where we would change to bus going to Niah Cave's direction. As usual weather conditions were playing trick on us- started raining just as we left. So a road that is already muddy becomes a) solid rock, b) a rice field or c) a horrendous land ...