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Sandakan 9 October Awful drive back to Lahad and then long bus journey to Sandakan during which the rigid framed day pack with the laptop and water in it fell from the overhead shelf as the driver threw the bus recklessly round another bend on the wrong side of the road. It smacked onto my head as I sat listening to my iPod. I'd only just peeled off the scab from smacking it in the cave at Mulu! When we got to Sandakan I smacked it on the metal door to the lugg...

Leech bites-0, mossie bites-too many to count, serious head injuries-4 (all Jan!!) Danum Valley 6 October Spent night at Meridien in KK and got upgraded to a club room! After hardly any sleep cos we needed to be up at 4.45, we were amazed at the enormous breakfast that arrived in our room at 5.15! Left for KK airport at 5.45 and had our breath taken away by the sight, from the terminal, of Mount Kinabalu rising from the morning mist. So beautiful. Flew to ...

We have just returned to KK from Mulu National Park in Sarawak where there was no facility to update the blog so here we go….. 2 Oct: Set off to fly from KK to Mulu-both Malaysian Borneo. At bag drop we were told to take our packs over to a scanner across the hall and then bring them back; plenty of time to put into them anything we fancied! Then we had our hand luggage scanned and I had a bottle of water in it and the laptop. The water was ignored as was the ...

We arrived in S'pore after a very uncomfortable night with no sleep and checked into the airport hotel which proved to be an oasis of calm and peace despite the runway outside our window! Slept for 10 hours. On Thursday afternoon we checked in for our Air Asia flight to Kota Kinabalu, Malaysian Borneo. Air Asia is the Easy Jet of Asia but with smiling, courteous staff-perfect. Landed in KK in the dark and took a taxi to the hotel and so we had absolutely no conce...