I am sure you have all heard about the floods and Monsoons and bad weather but fortunately for us it did not affect us that much, we had rains and very strong winds the first week we were here but the second week the weather turned around and it was just stunning. First of all before I go on I would like to thank Allan and Lina for having us and giving us a fantastic holiday in the Philippines, we have had such a brilliant time and after four months of backpack...

We finally found a beach!! But we had to get a bus to this beach, anyway after the long walk across town we finally get to the bus station and begin the gruelling task of actually looking for the right bus amongst the millions of busses parked up, obviously we were the main attraction as we had a massive audience, I mean that is how it always is at the station right! Anyway after looking like two total idiots walking past the same people and obviously looking l...

Our six hour bus journey to Sandakan was not too bad actually, we are really getting used to these long journeys and if the bus is decent it can be quite a nice way to look at the countryside. One thing that I find very upsetting though is the deforestation in this country, in way for palm trees plantations for the production of palm oil so the jungle is barely there. When I imagined Borneo I imagined jungle and when we got here it was really upsetting because as...

We decided to head to Borneo Sabah and because we did not know much about it we just looked at a map and decided to fly to Tawau and then get a bus to Semporna and hopefully get to a beach so off we went, first of all we got put at the back of the plane with about 7 screaming babies no lies but luckily that day I was in a good mood and knowing the flight was only 2 and half hours I did not mind too much and besides the Indian couple sitting next to me had the m...

It was so sad leaving Thailand but was exciting moving on. We got a flight direct to Kuala Lumpur and managed to get a bus into the centre and made our way to China town as the cheap backpacker accommodation was there. I was really surprised as Malaysia has a massive Chinese and Indian population and while we were driving through a street in KL it felt like I was back in India, there are so many different cultures here its hard to tell who the original Malay's ar...