Singapore was my final destination; I was only in the city for 2 days, most of which I spent shopping! Primarily I was buying presents but I couldn't pass up the opportuinty of getting cheap electronic goods, and so bought myself a netbook. I was lucky to have stumbled across a huge electronics fair with all the major brands launching their latest products at discount prices. I got a fantastic deal on the latest LG which I am thrilled with - and I'm using it righ...

Thailand! I arrived in Bangkok but headed straight out of the city. Emma is a volunteer in a town called Sangkhla Buri in the far west of the country, right on the border of Burma. It's 6-8 hours from Bangkok by bus and it was too late to get all the way there in the same day so I stopped for the night at a town called Kanchana Buri. This is where the film "Bridge on the River Kwai" is set, telling the story of the British PoW who built it. Kanchana Bur...

KL was a bit of a culture shock again after 2 weeks in Borneo. I really love the city though, and I quickly readjusted to the faster pace. I stayed in a fantastic hostel called Reggae Guesthouse in Chinatown. I love that part of the city, it's so full of life and it overflows with strange foods and smells. You can buy pretty much anything you want at any time of the day. I met lots of cool people at the hostel and it was very sociable with a good communal kitchen...

When we returned from the jungle it was time to say goodbye: to Laura who was flying back to England, and to all the others who were travelling on in Borneo. I caught a bus to Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in Sabah at a towering 4095m. Unfortunately in the last 5 years the price for climbing has skyrocketed (get it?) and now costs over £150 for a day and a half walking and one night on the mountain. I'm nearing the end of my trip, and therefore my budget,...

What a birthday I just had! It was fantastic and I couldn't have hoped for a better day. In the morning I went to the Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary where I got to watch the feeding of the rehabilitated orangutans. They were really cute, playing around on ropes and getting themselves covered in milk. It was mega-crowded though, so after the feeding finished I went for a walk on one of the jungle trails with Laura, a girl from New Zealand I'd met at my hostel. By the...