We got dropped off by the bus on a highway at around 3am so although we had tried to book somewhere we stumbled into the nearest open hostel and crashed out for the night. The next day we headed for Poring hot springs, waterfall and canopy walkway...After paying the foreigners fee (3x the amount the Malay's pay) we climbed our way up to the water fall where Rich stripped off and waded in. After a few girly screams he retreated back to the rocks as the fish starte...

Semporna was not the little sea side town we expected but we had high hopes for what was under water so we checked into a floating hotel in the town. The next day we took a speed boat out to a beautiful deserted island to do some snorkelling....it did not let us down. It was beautiful with white sands as far as you could see and water so blue it looked like it was out of a film, there were only a few people who lived on the island...the younger ones would climb u...

When we landed in Borneo the heat and humidity really hit us - made china feel really cold in comparison. We jumped in a taxi with an Aussie guy and headed for Sandakan, where we would spend the night before heading to uncle tans jungle expedition. The next morning we arrived at uncle tans base camp where we met the people we were to spend the next three nights in the jungle with. After some lunch we were all bundled into 4x4s and taken on a very bumpy 2 hour ri...

Our trip to Hong Kong started with a very cheap over night bus, it was a sleeper bus so we all had a bed...great we thought, but as the beds were 1.7m and Rich is 1.9m it was not so great for Rich! So after a 'good' night's sleep of clinging onto our beds for dear life as we flew around the bends at 3am we were at the border to HK! We arrived at the border with no currency and no way of getting out of passport control as we could not pay for the bus....As it turn...

As we arrived in yangshou it was like something out of a film with karsts rising out of the ground and rice fields as far as the eye could see! We jumped in a tuk tuk and asked him to take us to a hotel we were recommended to called the giggling tree. We started on a smooth little lane which then turned into a dirt track…holding on for dear life! When we arrived at the hotel it was a beautiful old converted barn in the foothills were water buffalos wandered th...