Date: 12th july 2011 Place: Sandakan Weather: sunny We slept over the alarm this morning and were woken up by Sheila who was a Canadian woman going on the same trip as us today with the rest of her family. We had to get up and dressed pretty quickly and then had the breakfast we had paid for which turned out to be basically naan bread and curry sauce to dip it in…not really what I fancied at 8am! Well we got in the car and were only half an hour behin...

Date: 11th July 2011 Place: Kinabalu National Park Weather: sunny I woke up at 8ish and my legs were killing me! I couldn't bring myself to get up. When I finally did I went to have a nice warm shower which I thought would soothe them. It turned out the water wasn't on because of a water shortage. I was gutted so we left the hostel in a bad mood with them. We were going to go to the Poring Hot Springs but it felt like too much of an effort so we decided...

Date: 10th July 2011 Place: Mount Kinabalu Weather: Absolutely freezing to sunny 2am start. I think I got about an hours sleep altogether and it turned out Carm had been the same so maybe it was something to do with the altitude again. Or maybe we were both just nervous. We put on all of our gear which was some leggings and trousers, two pairs of socks, a top, a thick jumper and my wind and waterproof jacket, gloves, walking shoes and a head torch. I was s...

Date: 9th July 2011 Place: Mount Kinabalu Weather: Sunny I couldn't believe the day had come to climb a mountain! We got up super early, had a big breakfast and then went to get the bus to the mountain. After doing all of the signing in bits and paying for our guide we got another bus to the base of the mountain. When we first saw it I couldn't help but swear. I couldn't believe I had paid to climb this thing it was huge! The first part of the climb was...

Date: 8th July 2011 Place: Kota Kinabalu Weather: Really Sunny Today we were going to do the island trip that we were supposed to do the day before. The boat ride over there was great it was really fast and bumpy. The islands were really pretty, I didn't think they would be anything like that since Kota Kinabalu isn't a great city. The water was really clear and you could see all the fish. We found a really private part of the beach where we were basica...