All in all today was pretty relaxing Quick walk down the waterfront to grab some breakfast, another stroll through town and then a flight back to Kota Kinabalu. We spent most of the rest of the day wandering around 1Borneo, this place is bloody massive! Tommorrow we are off to Bangkok so it should be pretty interesting, plenty of flying!

What's Hot: Uncle Tans in the lower Kinabatangan river- proboscis monkeys, cheeky mackaqe monkeys, bearded pigs, scorpions, flying lizards, birds asleep 0.5m from me, large monitor lizards in trees and a wild orangutan, a little rafflesia, seeing Mt Kinabalu for the first time, air asia, the hot showers and white bedsheets of the Kinabalu Daya H...

Had a day exploring Kota Kinabalu. Usual Asian town with areas for Indian and Chinese populations but does have a big Waterfront that looked a great area from our hotel room on the 9th floor. We did our usual refusal of taxis and walked everywhere today but very hot and Hels still taking on water. It is so easy to forget to drink all the time an...

Ouch! Ouch! Ouch! My muscles A long hot shower and warm bed was exactly what we needed and got after finishing the climb up Mount Kinabalu. Then the next day, we were ready to head down to Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah. We shared a private taxi with another couple, because the buses were full due to Hari Raya. About Ramadan and Hari Raya R...

Kota Kinabalu 19/12 - 21/12 Food, glorious food ... after checking into our hostel at Borneo Global Backpackers (with free airport pick-up), we headed down to the hawker stalls set up in a nearby car park. We ordered a Tom Yum soup and a Nasi Paprik (fried rice, veg, chicken and spicy seasoning) to accompany our gallon sized fruit shakes and tho...

We are now in Kota Kinabalu for a 2 week tour in the Sabah region of Borneo. It will be nice not to have to work things out for ourselves all the time! We will be meeting up with our fellow travellers and tour leader tomorrow evening. We just had lunch overlooking the South China Sea and could see some tropical-looking islands which we plan to v...

It was lovely to have a bit of a lie in after a string of early mornings! The girls spent the night with Andrew & Harriet, having a "sleepover" in their room. At 9am, Ross led a guided walk through the jungle to see a variety of trees, plants & fruits. We examined palm trees on a plantation to see where palm oil comes from and climbed an observa...

Ok we have had a few days in KK to acclimatise and get used to our new surroundings! its great! nice friendly people and really really cheap things!! City park inn was nice, but now off to Mikis Jungle Survival camp...i don't know what to expect, but it had better be good - excited!! trek in the jungle and sleep in the jungle should be fun and i...

Again, wlaked around, got burnt a bit but not much to tell. Just getting ready for the Raleigh expedition. Did see a lot more wildlife. The place is a town, but small and very close to country side - so much so I wlaked from one end to the other.

We went back to KK via Tuaran as we wanted to have a look at The Shangri-La's Rasa Ria resort, which was having a promotion at the time, as were most of the big tourist places hit by the plunge in tourism since September 11. We had a look around but decided there was no compelling reason for us to stay there, and we would be just as happy in Tre...