I've spent the last week frolicking with the primates!!! Orangutans, gibbons, proboscis monkeys, squirrel monkeys and long tail lima's! Its been pretty damn cool week!!!!! Not only am I helping the local boys out with their English but I'm cleaning night enclosures, preparing food and feeding! I've learnt so much already to the point that I get to do the public feeding sessions!!! at 2pm each day they have gibbon and orangutan feeding were all the visitors can co...

First day at the Lok Kawi wildlife park started with a hangover! Haha. Last night JB came over to introduce himself and took me out for a welcome dinner at dungunun (local town 6km away) where he ordered us a huge feast of really tasty fish, prawns, Vegas and mee gorang (fried noodles) + beer of course hAha. We ate up our fill and headed to meet his friends Henry and Tina at his local bar.. And continue Drinking... Met some cool locals - a guy named Jerry who wo...

The last few days we have spent chilling out back in Kota Kinabalu (kk) catching up on the fresh seafood from the market that we have been craving, heading out to the local islands for some sun, shopping, icecreaming and dancing! It's been a pretty good last days actually. We have met some really cool people and last night we headed the BED.. Yup thats the clubs name! And it was crazy awesome! So busy, amazing live band, cool mix of locals and westerners... And...

So Rik and I made it back from the Jungle.. ALIVE! Over the last 4 days Rik and I headed from Semporna up to Sepilok and found a cute lil hippy retreat-like place called uncle tans.. about a 2km walk to the orangutan sanctuary! We stayed a night there and went and visited the orangutans one morning.... PISSING down rain.. the orangutans stayed in bed (as we should have done) and didnt end up come out to feed! so we stood there for 1/2 hr in our 5 ringit ponchos ...

SIPIDAN! Just to finish the last 3 days at Mabul... Pretty much we chilled out on the beach, had an afternoon session with spanish brady with a guy named scott from canada. Enjoyed exploring the island and watching the sunsets and sunrises! on the 21st rik and i finally got permits to Sipidan with a scuba company called UNCLE CHANG! haha. can you believe it! anyway sipidan was pretty damn COOL. we saw vortex's of jacks, schools of humphead parrot fish, dozens ...