From KL we went bak to Borneo as we weren't able to dive the last time we were there. Again, nothing is ever staright forward out here. To cut a long story short, it turned out that the dive company we had booked with weren't a dive a centre, but a travel agent. They had booked us in with another company, who when we asked to see their permits (its illegal if you don't have a permit when diving here), he refused to show us and told us to get out of his shop. Was ...

Yep, I know, we spend our life in this city. But due to an error in dates (we won't nam names - Jamie), Lois didn't actually fly back until the Monday night, so it was a good job were extended our trip or she'd have sat in the airport for 2 days again. Because of the aweful accommodation we satyed in in Ubud, she really wasn't feeling the backerpacker hostels in KL, so treated us to a nice hotel in Chinatown. Thanks Lo! We went back to the Petronas Twin Tower...

Luckily, we had been recommended a place to stay when we arrived in Sandakan. It was not a touristy town at all. Very local and nothing there except for a pretty diabolical KFC. We'd been up all night after staying at the airport to catch the early flight, so slept the day we arrived. The following afternoon we went to the Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary. Was pretty awesome. There was a massive feeding platform that the tourists could watch from while quite a way ...

1 scary bus journey here and a ferry ride in torrential rain, we were on Tioman. It was pitch black when we arrived, and more trouble was to come when they told us everywhere was fully booked due to a public holiday that weekend. Thankfully, we managed to stay somewhere for that night, and then walked to the opposite end of the island the following morning, and found a little beach chalet on the sea front. It wasn't until the morning that realized how beautiful i...

Thank god, we headed back into civilization - KL, to get some shopping done. After a long hot walk from the bus station to find accommodation, we had to settle on the jungle lodge guest house. The rooms here were the length of the single beds - sorry, mattresses on the floor, with a foot in between one another to keep our bags. But it was clean with no bed bugs so we settled for it. We found a brand new shopping centre with topshop and mango and zara etc, so sp...