Tempurung Seaside Lodge Kota Kinabalu

... I am off today to an island for a day of relaxing ...i will write more later!



Ok ...well now it is Wednesday and yesterday didnt quite pan out the way i was hoping it would ... i walked around town for a couple of hours and then went to the Jetty but it was windy and it looked like a storm was coming so the boats were not going out ... so disappointed i trundled around town in the heat for a bit longer before heading ...

... behind the curtain. Then her bed sheets are changed and Erin keeps trying to get out of bed to make it easier for them. I finally get her to have another sleep and when she wakes up next (about an hour later) she tells Cait and I that she had a very strange dream that she had to use a bedpan!

The doctor finally comes in about 12ish and confirms what we had suspected. The Doxycyclin that Erin has been taking as an anti-malarial has caused some shallow ...

... and their 30kg packs looked really heavy!! They had huge calf muscles and made us feel really unfit.

When we finally got to Laban Rata Sarah made a bee line for the showers and was one of the few to get hot water (and has been very smug about it since.) While I had a dive for the loo and some pills – this was obviously not going to get any easier (for one thing we’d only brought a small supply of pills!).

We were sharing a room ...

... with plenty of space to move! There were about 180 people there and by the time we'd scrambled over all the rocky slopes, using the fixed ropes as necessary we found ourselves on the summit at 5am with only 2 other people there! (Pete pointed out that they'd left before us too!) We were feeling a bit smug until the hoards descended and we all watched the sunrise together! Lovely, it cast shadows and bright orange sunlight on the rocks around and it was funny to see everyones ...

... firing a blow pipe, watching some dancing and a scary war dance by a 'warrior' who wears Levi's and raybans post dance. Seriously though, this kid in the dancing, he carries a big blowpipe, dances around, pops a couple of balloons with a dart, puts one in the spout and then aims at you! It was actually very very very intimidating. So I snapped it in two. Joke. His handshake at the end took away ...

... during a picturesque sunset. Later some food and beer aided our sleep. More Relaxing We were very good at sleeping on this trip and kept missing the island hopping trip that left early in the morning. No worries, we had a wonderful beach and Underwater World, a massive aquarium, a short walk away. We even made it in time to see the advertized shark feeding. A man in scuba gear swam around and fed all the various creatures: fish, sharks, rays, etc. We even ...

... clear sunrise. With adrenaline running, we headed the 2 hrs to the top! It was an interesting climb up, in the dark, holding onto ropes to guide us up. It made it great fun to start with and had to scale up fairly steep Granite slopes, pulling ourselves up by ropes. About an hour into it, my bare hands (i unbelievably had no gloves) began to become very cold and the wind was howling. As we got about 500 metres from the top, the cold got worse, and ...

... However the consequences were slightly upset tummies. Tom Yum was very hot! We shared a guide with Craig and his name was 'Mr Gary', whom looked 12 but assured us he was 17. We caught a windy bus before the start of the hike. 3 hours later after climbing 1400m in altitude, 6 km we arrived soaked. The track wasn't a walking trail but a river. The rain poured teh whole way, the Guaranteed jackets failed to keep us dry. Never ...

It's hard to believe it has already been over a month since the plane lifted up and away from that drizzly stockholm morning...Time definately moves at a different speed for me now... dates,times,weekdays,weekends..they all become more or less of no importance .. Days become weeks and weeks-months oh so easily... Our entry into south east asia was through Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. After approximately 24 hours travelling (including all the buses,transit ...

We woke up early and spent an enjoyable morning at the Gaya market, where they sell all kinds of interesting goods. You’ll find such bazaars all over Malaysia. Here you get to meet the locals and you never know what things you may find. Anna bought some pearls after the seller claimed that they were genuine by scratching them hard with a pair of ...