Our last few days in Borneo were spent in Sarawak, in the south, and we based ourselves in the Old Chinatown of Kuching, the state's capital. From here we took a trip to the Semenggoh Nature Reserve, which claims to be the best place to see orangutans in their natural jungle habitat. Having seen them in the wild already, you may wonder why we would choose to then go and see them in a sanctuary, but the opportunity to see these wonderful creatures at close(r) ra...

After our jungle safari fun we also spent a few days exploring Sabah's south-west corner, apparently offering some of the 'wildest territory' in the state with some very remote and virgin rainforest, deep in Murut country (the Muruts being one of 30 ethnic tribes in Sabah). The area is only accessible with local guides and so perhaps heeding what we had learnt in Kalimantan, we joined a tour to explore this remote hinterland by means of an eco-tourism project ru...

Our last day in Balikpapan - and Indonesia - was spent both relaxing and catching up on 'admin' - emails, onward travel plans, laundry….all very glamorous. Also by this point we had heard the news that Prince George Alexander Louis had recently arrived, and catching up on some of the circus surrounding his birth in the UK and US media, we were bemused to see that news of this had even reached the locals in our small corner of the world: when dropping off our d...