We left Sandakan on Thursday 15th march for kota kinabulu. It was a 6 hour bus journey. We turned up at sandakan bus station for the 9am bus which we wanted to get and unfortunately it was full, so we had to wait for the 10am, gutting. Again, as if on queue there was the annoying English couple from our hotel who left in a taxi a few minutes before us and who had obviously managed to get the last 2 seats on the bus. Err! Typical ha! Kota kinabulu is situated on t...

And so our Borneo adventure started! Our flight from Kuala Lumpur on Monday 12 march to sandakan in malaysian Borneo took just under 2.5 hours. We were flying with malaysian airlines and were pleased to find that we had a complimentary meal on there. Bonus! No alcohol though due to religious reasons so not quite an emirates flight unfortunately ha!The local buses from the airport stops running at 6pm and we landed 6.30pm, typical, but a taxi was really cheap anyw...

On Thursday 8th March we left our treat hotel in Kuala Tahan and got two buses, taking us to Kuala Lumpur. The journey was really cheap and the buses comfy; bus transport in Malaysia so far has been great like that. On the bus we saw the French pair that were in our hide in the jungle 2 nights before so it was nice to see them again and they had been to Kuala Lumpur a few times so gave us some tips. As we found in Thailand, the bus doesn't take you into the centr...

The bus from Penang took only a few hours and so we arrived at the town of Tanah Rat in the Cameron Highlands around lunch time on Sat 3rd March. The Cameron Highlands are known for their 'Boh' tea and the tea plantations here as well as their growing of strawberries, and driving into the highlands you could see that every area of land here is being used to grow something, its amazing, The highlands are over 150m above sea level and we were able to enjoy a few co...

The bus from the Cameron Highlands took 3 hours and then we had a 3hour boat ride up the river to the park which was exciting! We saw a huge monitor lizard, a kingfisher bird, some sort of eagle and some macque monkeys on our boat trip which was a good start to the national park adventure. We weren't sure what to do when we arrived as we had read you could stay in a hide in the jungle, but we only arrived at 4pm, so it was too late to get there on the first day. ...