And lo we doth arrive in Sabah, Borneo. The weather was pretty grim the whole way across the sea and there were some big dirty clouds hanging over the island. After we came down through the clouds we had a fairly depressing site - mile after mile of palm plantation. Since the 1950's a lot of Sabah's virgin rainforest has been chopped down to mak...

April fool's day. What jokes did they play on you? T gets up at 4h30. I am awake too. The curtains are open and lightning woke me up before 4. I try to convince Hubby to stay in bed but no: off he goes, to his laptop. I have confused dreams about work and dead colleagues. 6 o'clock alarm clock. Packing. It is still raining. Did not stop yet sinc...

After being spoilt at SMART with luxurious accommodation, great food and diving it was time to take in another great experience that Borneo is famous for, itīs jungles. Originally the majority of the landscape of Borneo consisted of lush jungles filled with all kinds of wild life. As in many countries this is no longer the case and much of the j...

Greetings! We arrived in Sandakan, after an Air Asia flight from Kota Kinabalu. The flight itself was OK, and the check in surprisingly efficient. Couldn't say the same about the actual boarding process though - no seat allocations - so it's each man, woman and child for themselves. As in most of Asia, queuing politely and waiting your turn, isn...

With a quick overnight at an airport hotel in Kuala Lumpur, we rose nice and early for our morning flight to Sandakan in Malaysian Borneo. During the last week in Vietnam I had been sending a few emails back and forth with a Malaysian company, trying to book some activities in advance as I had heard things can get quite full. Hence as soon as we...

For once, the guidebook gets this one right - this was fantastic. For three days and two nights, myself and about a dozen other westerners were treated to the ultimate 'back to nature' experience. To get there requires a two-hour jeep ride, followed by an hour on a boat as you are taken deep into the rainforest to a very basic jungle camp. Most ...

Arrived in Sandakan in the evening, got a guest house then in true davey style i rewarded myself for climbing the mountain (Simon did too) with an all you can eat Hari raya buffet. However we got there late and the buffet 'had finished' though there was still a lot of food left. I was looking at the food thinking 'hhhhhhmmmmnnn, there's still a ...

So I get up this morning... around 7am or so.. Great! Nice and early; I should be able to get an earlyish bus out to Sandakan and make it by the early afternoon. I checked out around 8:30am or so, and walked to the bus station, and turns out I have to go to the main road to take a bus to another nextdoor town, where the long distance bus station...

We went to Uncle Tans wildlife camp after KK, it was really fun at Uncle Tans because that was the second place that had guitars after my Uncle's house where they had a piano and a guitar and at Uncle Tans they had quite a few guitars one for each of the guide's because they love them. We went on some safaris and we saw, a few Probiscas monkeys,...

Having left Sipidan we took a 5 hour bus trip to Sandakan to get in to the Borneo Jungle. We were the only westerners, shared the bus with lots of Malaysians, a loud cockeral, some tropical fish and a couple of illegal philipino immigrants who exited the bus at the check point and cautiously rejoined once the police had got off the bus! First st...