Crazy big city. Lots of tall buildings, some are especially twinky and apparently famous, though I'd never heard of the Petronus towers myself…isn't that the stag that Harry Potter expels from his wand to ward off dementors? ( now don't pretend you don't read Harry Potter too, I know the truth!) Not my cup of tea!

Its turtle time! Off to 'Turtle Island', a sanctuary for Green and Hawksbill turtles who come to lay their eggs here. Witnessing the Green turtle mother ashore laying her eggs seemed somewhat intrusive, a crowd of 40 people clustered round gazing at her rear end and being marshaled by a guy shouting 'next row move up!' is not my idea of sharing in the miracle of the turtle's life cycle. But the release of the tiny energetic hatchings from the hatchery, the ones i...

I am Jungle Julie! Living in a basic wooden hut with mesh sides and sleeping on the floor in a mosquito net, no running water and mosquito infested 'toilets', the experience has been rather authentic. Macaques stealing our lunch, water monitor lizards moseying on by at breakfast, holding scorpions before bed, crocs on the boat safari and several different types of Hornbills flying over head, it was all there….but the best, most amazing experience of all was see...

This is the loveliest city in Asia, I want to put it in my pocket and take it home, along with Wellington! As well as having the best, friendliest, loveliest hostel with delicious icy air conditioning, a blessing in the thirty plus humid heat, it is charming and friendly and seems small, even though its actually bigger than Kota Kinabalu, the biggest city in Sabah. There is a high proportion of Chinese here, so I dined on my first steamed buns and tried all sorts...