The last attraction to visit in Kota Kinabalu was the Dirty Beach. since flying into Borneo the litter, waste, smells and murkiness have being present when looking at the sea, rivers and streets. It's such a shame that this wonderland of nature is being so mistreated as it is trying to catch up to the first world. Mass deforestation is taking place and the by-products of this are polluting the rivers and sea to the point where for backpackers it is a day out to v...

An outing to the Sunday Markets of Kota Kinabalu turned into a very disappointing venture. We arrived at midday as we were in able to find out the start/ finish time so this seemed logical. But upon finding Gaya Street where they are held, it soon became clear that everyone was packing up for the day. Nonetheless we still managed to get a glimpse of what was on offer...... Every other store trying to sell the same stuff. This seems to be a common occurrence in ...

Early bird catches ......the 5.20am pickup in a full minivan for an hour and a half down the bumpiest road on earth, to catch the oldest (again packed) rickety train for 2 hours along wonky tracks to go white water rafting on the biggest grade 5 rapids in Borneo. The guide Keigo = hardest man in the world to read. The reason for this was he kept throwing horrifying details into the trip but not clarifying if it was in humour or not. - When rafting do...

This morning we solved the breakfast issue by locating a supermarket downtown and stocking up on cereal, milk, jam and bread for our stay in KK. Hopefully we won't have to go through the half-boiled egg incident ever again. The Half Boiled Egg Incident. This a phenomenon we have only found in Malaysia. The only item on any breakfast menu that slightly hints at the western world. So ambitiously wehave being trying to order half boiled eggs on toast to the...

With an anxious wait to be picked up to go on a tour to the Mari Mari Cultural Village at 9.20am that we booked online late last night, we got a whatsapp off the driver. How very 2015 of them. We packed into the multi cultural minivan and set off. The Mari Mari Cultural village was very informative about the tribal ways of life that were present in Borneo over the last few hundred years. The trip was made pretty hilarious by the guide AK or 'AK47' as he kep...