After getting back from Turtle Island we had a really quiet and lazy day by spending the whole day in the room at our hostel! Nipping out the odd time for food and drinks!

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 ...