Hi everyone, Since we are currently holed up in the hotel room unable to move, I thought I'd update on the last couple of days in Brastagi.From the guide book's description we'd imagined Brastagi to be a small village up high in the mountains. It is high up in the mountains yes, but small it is not!In some ways we were slightly disappointed when we turned up but it's the volcanoes surrounding the town we came to see, not the town itself!The journey from Bukit La...

Hello from Indonesia! We are currently touring through Sumatra, which is the 6th largest island in the world and the most northerly part of Indonesia, the world's 4th largest country. After a rather uncomfortable night spent in KL airport, we arrived in Medan, the capital of the Sumatran province at around 8am. Our aim was to head straight through Medan to our eventual destination of Bukit Lawang in one day. It was all relatively easy, much to my surprise! K...

Hi, thought we should do a quick sum up of our time spent in Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore as we're moving onto Indonesia and expect things to be quite different there to what we have seen of Asia so far. We've really enjoyed the last few weeks and will definitely look forward to going back to Kuala Lumpur before we go home. Days travelled = 27 Islands visited = 8 Modes of transport = 11 Favourite place = (M) KL… (K) Melaka Worst place = (M) KK… (...

Hi guys, We've had a great last few days, spent on the island of Pulau Mabul in the Celebes Sea, just off the coast of Borneo. This area is renowned for its diving, particularly for one of the islands called Sipidan, near to where we are staying, which is one of the top ten sites in the world. The main purpose of our trip here was to do an open-water diving course, although a few days chilling out on the beach hasn't gone a miss! We took a speedboat over here...

Hi guys, Well yesterday was the day of our orang-utan visit and we were both very excited. I kept singing/humming the song from the Jungle book much to Katie's annoyance but it seemed to fit. The sanctuary we are visiting is called Sepilok and is located 20 odd km north of Sandakan where we staying. On our way to the town we had our first experience of been over hassled at the bus station in Kota Kinabalu by touts/children. The bus station to get to Sandakan ...