We had booked a 3 day/ 2 night trip to Nature Lodge in the rainforest alongside the Kelibatangan River...for those of you who know about Kims fear of spiders this may seem a strange choice... Dee joined us on the trip which was advrtised as a 'back to nature experience' with 5 river cruises, 2 night walks into the rainforest and a 3 hour day trek into the depths of the jungle. The trip was really good - the river cruises allowed us to see Orang-utans in the wild...

On our return from Turtle Island we decided to go out to Sepilok to visit the Orangutan Sanctuary. The trip did not start well - we were given conflicting information by about 5 different people about which bus to get and where they went from. We eventually found the mini-bus station only to find we had missed 'bus 14' and the next one wasn't for 3 hours. We splashed out on a taxi (which cost an expensive 35 ringitts or 5 quid for an hour journey) only to find th...

We booked an overnight trip to Pulau Selingaan - an island in a protected marine park shared by Malaysia and the Philipines which is dedicated to protecting turtles. As we were the only people who had booked directly with the company that manages the island we had our own speedboat out to the island which made us feel like we were rich and extravagant rather than smelly old backpackers! We then had a couple of hours on a beautiful tropical beach completely on o...

We arrived into Sandakan after a 6 hour bus journey where we'd met a lovely Ozzie girl called Dee. Dee was on holiday in Borneo before going to the Philipines to have her teeth done...random! From the map our hostel looked like a short walk although we wondered why passers by raised their eyebrows when we said we were walking it! In the end we grabbed a mini-bus and, while packed on like sardines, discovered it was about 9k into town! Our hostel was lovely with...

Thinking we would be really organised we booked a hostel before leaving Kuala Lumpur which came with a free pick up from the airport. We smugly sauntered out of the airport and raced off to the Beach Lodge (sounds lovely doesn't it?!) only to find the hostel didn't quite live up to expectations.... to start with you had to climb 8 very smelly and disgusting flights of stairs to reach what was basically someone's flat with two rooms converted into dorms. A newborn...