We had to fly via Kuala Lumpur to get to Bali which was our next stop and the way the flights worked out we ended up with a day to kill. As luck would have it, our buddy Becky Reining who lives in Singapore and works as a very successful Sales Executive for the Asia-Pacific Region had some very important and potentially extremely lucrative business meetings in Kuala Lumpur that very Friday. Thus the 3 of us met for the 7th time so far during our 4 month SE Asia s...

Any "Survivor" fans out there? We've never watched it, but we can now say we've been to the island where the very first ever season was filmed. Our good friend Lizzy Ryan recommended we check it out; she particularly raved about the mud bathes...it was doable in 2 days/1 night which is what we had so we figured we'd roll out. To get to Pulau Tiga you have to first get to Kuala Penyu Jetty which is roughly 2 hrs west of Kota Kinabalu. You take a bus headed in th...

After our grueling hike on Mt Kinabalu a nice, long, lazy sleep-in is just what we needed to face the trip out to Sepilok. We both woke up with pretty sore legs. And as we mentioned the hike up to the lodge the couple of days before was very wet and very cold, which left me with a doozy of a head cold. So I pretty much felt like I had just been hit by a truck. Thankfully the sun was shining and the weather was warm which quickly lifted my spirits. After breakfas...

Finally the big day was upon us. We'd been looking forward to this hike with 60/40 excitement and trepidation for months now so it was a relief to finally be getting to it. We showed up at the National Park at about 8am after spending the night at a nice spot down the road and getting a ride to the park by a really nice local old man. Once arrived we checked in, stored our big bags, got our packed lunch and then arranged our guide. We paired up with a Dutch guy ...

Welcome to Borneo! It took a little longer then we thought, but after a flight from Hanoi to Kuala Lumpur, a 4 hour layover, and another 3 hr flight on the fantastic budget airline Air Asia we found ourselves in the capital of the Malaysian state of Sabah; Kota Kinabalu. To be honest, KK doesn't have a whole lot going on except that it is the gateway to the rest of this incredible island. We only stopped for the night to lay over before heading east into the hi...