Central Hotel Sandakan

... for a cheese sandwich!!!!!!

Spent the morning at the Orangutan sanctuary today and then went trekking in the rainforest discovery centre- 168 steps up the hornbill tower and we see nada- not one thing!!!!! It is about 90% humidity here so not a nice walk up in this heat.

We've just stopped for a drink and then we are going back to see the orangutans again this afternoon for the 3pm feed, i discovered that we can go in on the same ...

... feet, just unfortunate cloud had gathered around the summit of Mount Kinabalu itself so no views of the 13,435 foot peak. Also we had back to back martial arts movies on the telly including the superb blood sport 2.


After checking in to the Hotel London (clean basic and more importantly about £8 a night) we decided to take a walk down to the water front to find something to eat. Considering this city was meant to at one stage have more millionaires per ...

... for a one kilometre trek, this took almost two hours though, as we stopped every couple of minutes to learn about the plants. We didn’t see too many animals but it was still pretty cool. We had a few hours to sit around then it was back out on the boat. As we set out there was a brilliant lightening storm, we saw a few macaques and proboscis monkeys but the highlight of the evening was watching the huge bats, flying foxes the locals call them, fly overhead with the ...

... gros nez. Puis on a vue des macaque a grande queue, des oiseaux avec le bec comme une corne de rinoceros et un orang outang. Finalement, on a vue un troupeau d'elephant, tout pres de la riviere et il n'etait pas du tout efrayer par les dizaines de touristes qui les prenaient en photos.

enfin, nous sommes repartis vers le point de depart ou nous avons mange avant de reprendre la route pour sandakan.

... partira vendredi pour aller voir l'ile aux tortues.

ensuite on est partie en ville, prendre l'autobus pour aller voir un temple boudiste. C'est un gros temple, assez haut sur une colline, on avait une belle vue sur la mer et une partie de la ville. cache derriere le gros temple, il y a un autre temple, un peu plus petit. Probalement comme le dernier temple qu'on avais visiter a kota kinabalu, les dieux et les desses ont chacun leur temple.

... and preened themselves prior to sleeping. Our final night safari was a trek through the marshy forest in search of all manor of nocturnal creatures. This turned out to be hilarious! Courtesy of our intrepid Swedish bug hunt**! Or Jungle Jand as Shelley called h**. The guide led us of into the jungle but that was probably the last time we all followed him. Jungle jane was on a mission! Within seconds she scanned around and hunted down a frog. The poor frog must have thought ‘ ...

... her and she looked around kinda like what and trails off and he never moves a muscle and tells her to "keep talking, keep talking". He also basically told me to get my big head out from in front of his TV. I was sitting on the floor going thru movies and he told me to take the box to the counter so he could watch TV and we would both be happy. He had thousands of movies and he tightly regulated how many you could have in your room, the amount changed depending on his mood and if you ...

... the Swiss hotel and meal at their resturant that was also really cheap - food is the most consistently cheap things here it is amazing. We also found another great local roti resturant with the most amazing curries as well so made the most of that for a late lunch after a really really nice sleep in. In the morning we decided to call a Mr Agi who does tours for only 5 people, this sounded really appealling to us and would also include the caves at Gomantong (will check spelling ...

... and the Flying Fox whixh is actually a bat and is the biggest bat in the world and it was huge. So that was all extremely exciting. We then returned for a lovely dinner and then played cards, chatted and drank beer untill bedtime at around eleven o'clock. The dark was the darkest I've ever known and the noises of the jungle seem to escalate to a fully blown orchestra when you are trying to sleep. Frogs and birds and insects fill the air ...

Salut tout le monde Nous allons bien. Nous avons changer d'hotel ce matin. Pour une fois ce n'etait pas trop bruyant mais on preferait une autre. Nous sommes aller dejeuner chez le chinois. J'avais pas trop d'appetit pour les nouilles ou du riz ce matin. J'ai pris une boule de pate avec du poulet a l'interieur. Rejean lui, en demande encore du chinois, soupe au nouille et poulet. hihi. J'ai une ...