Got up really early this morning with the hope of getting a cancellation on going to Pulau Selingaan - Turtle Island, for the night. We rang pretty much constantly from 8am till 9.30am but got no answer! Frustrating! Oh well, plan B... Hire a car again as what we planned to do yesterday - this time though we rang ahead and made sure they were open and booked a car! We picked up our Kancil 850, sweet. It had done over 140k - maybe a little bit more as the di...

After a lengthy discussion we decided to hire a car to go round the sites of Sandakan today. So we hunted down a bus to take us to the airport, as this is the only place where cars are hired from. So, nearly an hour later following our really slow, stuffy and smelly 11km bus ride we eventually got to the airport and found the car rental place...shut. A tiny little bit annoyed we walked the 500metres back up to the main road where we could hopefully flag a pass...

Pulau Labuan, the garden island of Borneo - as it has been an outrageous 10 days since we were last at a beach and with it only being a boat ride away we decided to head here, to sunbathe on the white sands and swim and snorkel in the clear waters...obviously our plans never quite go to plan when moving, and we are now on the other side of Borneo, instead of a 3 hour boat journey west we took a 6 hour bus journey east, in the complete opposite direction of Pulau ...

Following a restless night's sleep by the ever constantly snoring old man we went in search of a travel agent to book a longhouse trip to stay overnight in - Longhouses are houses that are really really long, Says it all in the name really and there can be up to 100 families all living under one really long roof! A trip to stay with one of these families is apparently an excellent experience and something that we really want to do, but when we found out it was g...

Got up really early after 20 minutes and managed to finally get a taxi to the bus station for a bus to the airport for our plane to another airport, for a taxi to a fully booked guesthouse and then a short walk to a hostel with available beds. We have finally arrived in Borneo!! Didn't really see much of KK in the afternoon, Claire spent it asleep and Dave spent it in front of the tele in the common room. At night we went to a Chinese restaurant which was bri...