After my jungle adventure I headed further round to Sabah's east coast to the town of Semporna. This is the jumping off point for the island of Sipidan which supposedly is one of the worlds top dive sites. As I've always wanted to learn to dive I figured I could do worse than learn here! Sadly I never actually got to go to Sipidan itself but dived the islands around it and it was still amazing. The course was 3 days, the 1st day in the classroom and then the ...

After leaving Singapore I got a bus across the causeway into Malaysia to catch a flight out to Sabah in the Malaysian part of Borneo. Arrived in Kota Kinabalu (the regions capital) and found my way to a nice hostel. Kota Kinabalu (KK) is just like any other asian city and there's nothing much to do in the town itself. Spent a couple of days just relaxing and experienced a Borneo night club. I can't say it was very different to any other night club in the world b...

My first Asian entry! How exciting for you all! :-) When I left Queenstown the weather had started to turn decidedly cold and every day you could see the snow line getting lower on the trees. In fact my flight out of Queenstown was delayed because the could was so thick and low. This meant that I made my connecting flight to Singapore by the skin of my teeth after running what felt like the lenght of Sydney airport between the gates. Things perked up after that t...