As we were able to get a direct bus to Semporna from the jungle trip, we gained ourselves an extra day there, so a soon as we arrived we booked ourselves on a day snorkel trip with the same company we were going to dive with. We also had to book a double rather than a dorm as the dorm was full that night (shame!) which meant we had the luxuries of en suite, cable and air con, hooray! That night we bumped into Ben and Becky (again) so had dinner with them. They ...

Given the state of exhaustion, I was fully expecting to get a solid 4 hours sleep in on the bus to Sandakan - unfortunately I got none. When we finally arrived I was in the worst mood ever and not prepared to be polite to any of the taxi drivers harassing us off the bus. Camilla's ear had not cleared up, and had even got worse since we had visited a doctor in KK, so we decided to head straight for the hospital to get it checked out before we headed off into the...

I had a horrible day in KL. I'd given myself plenty of time there unfortunately, thinking I'd easily be able to find an Internet cafe to waste time in at KL Sentral or a left luggage place so I could wander round in town. After I was unceremoniously dumped off the coach however, I didn't manage to do either of these and I eventually ate at some dodgy fast food joint before catching an early bus to the airport - 4 hours before my flight! I arrived there to find ...

I arrived back in Kuala Besut on the speed boat at 8 in the morning, but the bus I'd booked to leave on wasn't leaving til 10, so I had plenty of time to kill in this particularly dull town. Also due to the fact neither the islands or this town had an ATM, I was on limited funds! The lovely lady in the bus company office let me dump my bag and use her internet for free, which was great and i headed over the road to a funny little cafe to get some kind of breakfa...

We met Amber from New Zealand at the office to go and catch the boat in the morning. She was travelling alone so with Camilla we formed a 3. We'd arrived nice and early to catch the 9.30 boat, and didn't end up leaving til 11. It was scorching hot and the boat was not particularly covered, but luckily it was a speed boat, not a slow one like we'd intended - apparently they stopped running those years ago, but the Lonely Planet aka Lonely Liar had not caught onto ...