Date: 7th July 2011 Place: Kota Kinabalu Weather: Sunny Since we were supposed to organise everything so far in advance here we thought we had better go and book some things. I really wanted to go diving in Sipidan which is meant to be one of the best places in the WORLD. The plan was to go to the night market for dinner but we came across a restaurant called Texas that was decently priced and they had a computer on the table for us to use. I need...

SCUBA DIVING IN SIPIDAN Well I made it from Sandakan to Semporna after a 6 hour bus journey without Lucy as she headed back to KK to do her Open Water course. I was really "Lucky" and Sophia the Russian lady was on my bus and sat next to me. Gosh this women does not come up for air and says and does exactly what she wants, she's around 60 and has been travelling for years so she has some great stories and I guess she kept me entertained. It was around 8pm when w...

SEPILOK ORANGUTAN TIME :-) After a 5 hour bus journey, we finally arrived in Sandakan. We stayed at a hostel called Sunset Harbour,the owner Nafis was a lovely indian lady, who when we got there offered to cook for us for free. We had fresh fish with rice and pumpkin curry, it was delicious and we ate it with our hands. We ate dinner with a Canadian family, Rio and his mum and dad, Shelia and Gregg. Jeffrey one of the men who wortked there took us to Mile 4, a...

Kuala Lumpur, 4th July After our amazing flight we arrived in an awesome city. It was only a three hour flight but we still had a personal TV, meals and unlimited drinks! I watched Unknown which I had wanted to see in ages and by the end of three hours of free wine it was safe to say we were slightly tipsy when we arrived in Kuala Lumpur. I would recommend Malaysia Airlines to everyone! They cant do enough for you they even come round with wine to make sure yo...

Date: 1st July 2011 Place: Sapa Weather: Slightly cloudy Arrived at 5am and were picked up from the train station with a sign saying Camel Evans instead of Carmen. We then had a wait in the carpark for another train to come in so we had a mess around with people trying to sell us bread by offering them 1000dong for ages and they just kept trying to sell it to us (they wanted 10,000dong). When we set off and were going up the hills it was stunning. All the...