After the jungle I headed straight for Semporna which I had heard was a bit of a dump and it certainly lived up to its reputation and was really crummy. However it is just about the only place to stay if you want to dive off the island of Sipidan, consistently in the top 10 of dive spots in the world. You used to be able to stay on Sipidan itself until a big group got kidnapped about 8 years ago as there is some debate about who owned the island so now the only...

Next stop after seeing the 'Men of the Jungle' was to head there myself and I was initially very sceptical about how the next 3 days would pan out when I found myself on a bus with just me and 12 Dutch guys that seemed to have an average height of about 6ft 6". I thought it was going to be a total nightmare if there weren't other people at the Nature Resort that I was staying at not being able to understand anything that was being said. That thought was di...

One of the things I had always wanted to go to Borneo for was to see the orangutans or 'men of the jungle' which their name translates to and the best chance of seeing them is to visit the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre. Here they rescue orphaned orangutans and ones that are being kept illegally and rehabilitate them so that hopefully in the future they will return to the wild. One of the biggest issues in Borneo was the deforestation that had been going...

I woke up early to head back to Kinabalu park for my climb up the mountain with Pete and Andrea from the UK who were also staying at Vincents and of course even though it was before 9am Vincent still had his beer! A sign of an alcoholic perhaps? The views approaching the mountain are pretty daunting and you wonder how it will feel to climb through the clouds and then appear above them. It had been arranged for us to climb the alternative route that most people ...

Borneo - Something for everyone! Had a bit of a crazy start to Borneo after arriving in Kuala Lumpur from Singapore. I headed to the airport as there didn't seem much point in checking in to a hotel for the 8 hours before my flight but unfortunately I went to the wrong airport! By the time I realised the buses that shuttled passengers between the two airports had stopped and so I had to wait until 5am. That bus was late and I only just made it to the check in...