Ranau, Malaysia

... knows when there will be a bus and then a mini-van shows up but same story as this morning. Now there is noone returning to Ranau so I need to charter (!!!!) the van back for 30R. I tell them that I will wait and see if anybody else will need a ride back ...

So we'd decided to climb the highest mountain in South East Asia. This was mainly due to it being described as a highlight in our guidebook. It was going to be the biggest hill we’d ever climbed by a long way. Most travellers that we’d met ...

Every traveller has to overnight in towns like this occasionally although this was better than most such places in that it had a KFC, albeit the worst I've ever been to.

We got up nice and early to get a bus to Mount Kinabalu National Park, where we wanted to have a look around and go for a bit of a walk on some of the tracks. About a dozen of us crammed into a van, and we were on our way. Just over an hour later the van ...