Another lie-in, although after finishing at 1.30am it didn't feel like it. Nanna and I were first at breakfast, enjoying an omelette and a variety of jams with toast. After dashing back to the lodge for our bags in the rain, we maneuvred along the footpath under an umbrella back to the bus with all of our bags. I'd packed away my raincoat and poncho so hoped it wouldn't rain at the POW camp, but of course it did. The memorial exhibition described the camps in Mal...

Typical: Misog and co saw four orang-utans in the tree on their morning cruise, on the cruise that nobody else went on, but at least we all knew we were going to see them at the Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre later on. Breakfast wasn't too Malaysian today, as we even had shredded potato. Arkin appeared after breakfast with a birthday pancake for Lonna and we all sang to her: like a good girl I sang along too and smiled, but then the owner appeared with a rattan...

Happy Birthday to me! I had a little lie-in as I didn't do the river cruise, my legs still ached, but I won't show off again about that mere mountain I climbed. I couldn't have a shower either, as we were heading off on a jungle walk at ten, so there was no point cleaning before getting very sweaty again. Breakfast included some peanut butter, a definite birthday treat, and six of us were sat at breakfast for an hour or so before those who did go on the cruis...

Slept like a rock until 5.30am, then remembered my legs ached! It's so painful to walk, but worth it because, did I mention, I got to the top of Mount Kinabalu! I packed up a small backpack to take to the jungle, but it was popping out all over the place, so it wasn't my finest work. It meant I didn't have to lug around my big backpack though. We had an 'American breakfast', which was scrambled eggs on bread with huge baked beans and two very pink hotdogs that n...

I did it! I climbed to the top of Mount Kinabalu, all 4,095 metres of it! After getting up at six-thirty yesterday for breakfast of toast, lots of butter, and then scrambled eggs, lots of tea, and dry pancakes, we set off anxiously on our hike. By the first kilometre we were all sweating, and my Albas Oil-infused tissues were coming in very handy as sweat wipes. My white t-shirt was clearly never destined to survive this trip, as it was already drenched. I tr...