hello the last blog from Malaysia!!!!! Ok so we left Sipadan in Sabah and headed to our last destination Tawau Hills National Park! We werent expecting much as its rather unknown but it turned out to be great! We stayed at the park and had a dorm to ourselves, right in the jungle. It was busy with local tourists at the first waterfall which is at the park entrance, but as nobody seems interested in trekking in Malaysia we had the trails to ourselves, which was so...

ok so blog number two on this rubbish keyboard, i think im doing quite well! so we had some disapointments as we arrived in a town called HELL, oops i meant lahad datu. It really was a hole, and to be honest we both have a very sunny disposition travelling and make the best of anything but really some towns in sabah are so bad!! put it this way, the highlight was a display cabinet of coke cans from across the world in a small shopping complex) our room had three...

so this is catch up that i will slowly update over the next few days .... im writing this on the worlds worst keyboard on which all the keys are stuck so it will be short!!! we arrived in a town named Sandakan, a few days after we conquered the mountain as our legs were paying the price chris got out of bed the morning after the descent and promtly fell over!!!! we got lots of sympathetic looks as we sported the well known 'kinabalu hobble' around town - lets ju...

most importantly...........WE CLIMBED A MOUNTAIN!!!!! not just any old mountain but mount kinabalu, the highest mountain in south east asia!4100 metres of freezing, vertical, high altitude climbing,the hardest thing ive ever done but one of the best also! the first day we spent 5 hours reaching our mountain lodge from the tiphon gate which was 3300 metres up the majestic mount kinabalu, which was a really tough trek. Relentlessly uphill over boulders, past water...

ok so another bus journey and arrived at paradise! v nice speedboat to the island, all a bit james bond haha, and i have to say that although my experience of islands are limited, this is as close to a paradise island that i have seen! pulau perhentian besar is just beautiful! we arrived at Tuna Bay which was the best place on the island and located on the best beach so we guessed well! we had a really great coral reef just metres from Tuna Bay, the most amazing ...