We took a day trip to Bako national park. We were both still a bit weary from the Kinabulu trek, so decided on the easier, although not that short, trek through the forest and to a beach. The walk was through the trees and bush and we reached the open path of a small beach. We had the beach to ourselves for a few hours and then headed back towards the national park office. We got chatting to a dutch pair of ladies, one who spoke fluent Malay as she lived on...

We spent a few days relaxing in the lovely waterside town of Kuching on the other side of Malaysian Borneo - Sarawak. We wandered up and down the river and took a boat ride at sunset. It was relaxing, but not as relaxing as we would have liked thanks to a big fat man who persisted on getting up and down and due to his obesity effected the balance in the water, we rocked all over the place! We were entertained by a group of children who were showing us their ju...

The proposal We took a flight to Kota Kinabalu and stayed in Borneo Backpackers, a very rustic hostel, with shared facilities and tiny seperate beds. It was a bit of a come down from our hotel in Mabul. Never mind, we were here to climb a mountain, so after a wander to the night market to stock up with great food and essential sweets and biscuit buys we had a good night sleep ready for the trek. The company picked us up early in the morning and we left our b...

I wanna be like youuuuu The bus journey to Sandakan was bumpy, but not too long so with a few naps and some reading it went quite quickly. We arrived late so just went for some food at the only place open, a small Malaysian style restaurant. We had a delicious roti canai and it kept us coming back for more! I think, by the end of our stay we had around 15! The next day we went for a walk along the sea front and up to the hill in the town. It was a great vie...

Under the sea The few dives we had with Marisa for our advanced open water were a bit boring as we had to complete a lot of skills, showing our buoyancy control, took some photos using an underwater camera, used our high level knowledge of fish and coral in the fish identification module and the most interesting and fun was a drift dive. When I say boring, we still saw turtles galore, amazing bright coral and millions of tiny fish. It is one of the best areas ...