Banaue - Ifugao Province - The Philippines May 8th - 9th, 2016 Our night bus to Banaue halts for its second rest stop at 5.30am, just as the sun is rising and we are able to enjoy the rest of the ride in daylight through ever narrower, winding, bumpy roads that have stunning views out across the countryside of Ifugao Province - Rica Terrace country! This is the reason we have come..to see the UNESCO 'Stairway to Heaven' rice terraces hewn some 2000 years ago b...

Manila - The Philippines May 5th - 7th, 2016 Manila, the dirty, smelly, sweaty capitol city of the Philippines and home to about 2 million people across this sprawling city. Not our favourite place so far! Upon arrival at the airport you could tell this place was much more geared up for tourists than anywhere in Borneo had been, for a start all the ATM's charge you for having a foreign card! Our time in the city was plagued with people touting for business, ...

Bandar Seri Begawan - Borneo - Brunei May 3rd - 5th, 2016 Entering Brunei via bus gave us a chance to watch as the environment slowly changed from how it is in Malaysian Borneo, the main differences were the standards of the roads and buildings, though there were still many long houses to be seen. The fauna looked to be very similar, if a little more well kempt from a road view but the biggest change was the cars, no broken down, beaten up old Protons here, m...

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...