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...

WARNING: THIS BLOG POST MAY TURN YOUR EYES SQUARE Apologies in advance for the length of this next post, but to fully convey our experiences in Kalimantan I didn't want to miss anything out. I advise you print out and read over a cuppa / your commute home, and hopefully it will be worth it! From what we had heard, Kalimantan looked like it would provide us with some genuine off-the-beaten-track adventure and a chance to see a very different side of Indonesia to...

Our adventures on the boat ended the following day in Labuanbajo, a ramshackle harbour town in western Flores, where we docked and celebrated our safe return to dry land with some of our fellow travellers, by means of dinner and drinks. Then it was back to another night on the boat (in the port) before all heading our separate ways the next day - Simon and I were heading to Ende, in eastern Flores, to make our way eventually to Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), wh...

We could easily have stayed on Gili Air for a few more nights, but we were diverted by the discovery of a 4-day boat trip leaving Gili Air a few days after we arrived, from Lombok to Flores, taking in various islands along the way….it sounded like the perfect opportunity to explore some of the places we wanted to go to anyway (eg Komodo National Park) plus at around £100 each all-in, excluding alcohol, it seemed too good to be true! So off we set, travelling ...