After Mulu we took a flight to Kuching via Kota Kinabulu. Our main reason for visiting Kuching, Sarawak, was to see another Orangutan sanctuary. There are few in the world, 2 of these are in Borneo so we thought we'd try our luck a second time. The sanctuary was called Semongoh and was probably about an hour outside Kuching (which by the way Kuching is very hard to say without making a noise like a cash register, hope you are all doing it now!). We planned...

We arrived in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, after a six hour bus journey sat by the toilets, and as the seat infront of Rich was broken he basically had some guy laying on his lap. Not very comfortable. We thought we were getting the hang of haggling with the taxi drivers, only to find later that the taxi driver had driven us around in a big circle.Whilst here we decided to go to the cinema, which is a strange experience as all the fims seem to be rated U,...

After our brilliant river cruise we travelled back to Sandakan for our next trip to Pulau Selingaan also known as Turtle Island National Park.The island is 40km north of Sandakan in the Sulu Sea off Sabah's east coast. The main attraction of Selingaan are the turtles which come ashore each evening to lay their eggs. Selingaan island was the site of the first turtle hatchery in Malaysia in 1966. Both the Green Turtle and the Hawksbill Turtle land on this islan...

After Sepilok we travelled from Sandakan on a 2 day/2night wildlife tour of Sungai Kinabatangan River. We were to stay in a jungle lodge in Sukau.From Sandakan we had a four hour bumpy ride to the jungle lodge. The roads were terrible, we couldn't take a bus so had to use a 4x4. Our first stop after a couple of hours was at the Gomangtong caves. These caves were renowned for their valuable edible swiftlet nests, which are harvested for birds nest soup. The mo...

After Singapore we travelled overland to Johor Bahru, Malaysia. From the minute we reached Malaysia it became clear that Allison was invisible. Rich was expected to do all the talking etc, or 'Mr Richard' as they all called him. All of you who know Allison know this wasn't received well, especially when Rich seemed to be enjoying the attention and service a little too much. At dinner the waitress said to Rich, "will sir be having t...