Kuala Lumpur May 14th - 17th, 2016 Having already been to Bornean Malaysia I was anticipating more of the same just on a bigger scale, but Kuala Lumpur is nothing like that in the slightest and despite myself I found I rather liked this city after all. For a start, it has a great public transport system, with several options for reaching the city from the airport, then there is the myriad of train and bus lines throughout the city which make getting around sim...

Mulu National Park - Borneo - Malaysia May 1st - 3rd, 2016 After a 5am start to get to the airport and a change over at Kota Kinabulu where we boarded a plane with only 6 other passengers, we arrived at the tiny settlement of Mulu just after midday. Having not been able to find any sensibly priced accommodation online, we turned up in the hope that one of the homestays that were reported to be there would have space for us. Thankfully it is only just the very...

Sandakan - Borneo - Malaysia April 28th - May 1st, 2016 Arriving in Sandakan airport mid afternoon we took our bags to a bus stop just outside of the airport and hoped a No.7 would turn up at some point. There were no timetables to be found and just the word of a guidebook that there actually was a bus that would take us into town 11km away. The 'bus' when it turned up 10 minutes later turned out to be more like the collectivo's we encountered in South Americ...

Kuching - Borneo - Malaysia April 25th - 28th, 2016 Our first stop in SE Asia, Kuching seems a city trying to catch up with itself. Although the people have all the modern day gadgets, smartphones, tablets etc, it seems stuck in an era where sanitation and hygiene are secondary to making a living. There are fantastic, almost futuristic buildings built for government use, and yet people still ply their wares along the streets which are filled with potholes a...