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 ...

Up early for the coach to Kinabalu Park. We had a two hour ride for 88 Km up and down the mountains in North Borneo and it was a very pleasant ride, with fantastic views of Mount Kinabalu in and out of the clouds. We stopped twice to take photos and for a very brief moment we wished we had joined the 2 day trip to climb the mountain.....then I w...

Our flight from Taipei to Kota Kinabalu left us stranded at the Hong Kong airport for over 8 hours. During this time of mental weakness and confusion I stooped down on the nutritional pyramid by eating some chicken tenders and onion rings at burger king. i know, not characterisitc of me but 8 hour in hong kong will make you do funny things. we e...

We wanted to get in two last dives at Sipadan...this time we took the 9am boat ride...wow...what a difference. The skies were blue and the boat ride was like 15minutes. We took our first dive at TURTLE PATCH. This was the best dive of our whole trip. The water had 100 ft + visibility. We got up close and personal to a turtle...probably could hav...

Cocktail Party and Show - 7th March 2008. On Friday night we had a cocktail party with the Captain and his Officers held for World Cruise Members. We always enjoy these evenings as the drinks are free and the canapes very scrumptious. After the party we went down to dinner with the rest of our table 10 of us in all. Follwing dinner we went to th...

I am back home but I will be a traveler for the next six days. Isn't that paradoxically exciting? In this Sabah travel blog series, I will include hints and tips, all these treasures are collected after being a Sabahan for 21 years. Let's start the story, shall we? The first day in Kota Kinabalu. We had brunch at Fuping, the best place for dimsu...

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.

KK was really just an admin station for me for the mountain, so i wont bother to talk about the town itself. However, the day before the climb, me and Simon, a Swedish guy i met and climbed the mountain with, spent the day relaxing on Sulug island, one of the islands in the Tunku Abdul Rahman national park. We chose this island as whilst it is n...

Stumbled off the overnight bus into the darkness of the suburban bus depot in the outskirts of KK after a 10 hour sleepless night disrupted by the woman next to me and her 6 month old child...mmmm...fun. Some local took pity on me and herded me onto a bus with a whole lot of other locals. Too tired to protest I decided to go with the flow and en...

Borneo , The Jungle of all jungles as my husband likes to put it. A land of Orangatans, Headhunters, Mountainous wilderness and remote rivers. This is truly a land for the adventurer. Having been travelling South East Asia for 4 months, we were eagerly anticipating this leg of our tjourney. Borneo after all is the real Asian Jungle, unspoiled by...