This blog entry has been a long time coming. We've actually long left Darwin and at the mo are in Alice Springs in central Australia, very desert-y. We spent about two weeks in total in Darwin. Good times. The weather couldn't have been any better, the town is a good size, big but not too big. A nice beach, although you couldnt swim cos of Box jellyfish, a little gutting, they also had an amazing market on the beachfront twice a week. Kim and I ate Kangaroo, and...

Well, ultimate change of plans. We're in Australia! Up in Darwin at the moment, and my god is it hot! Hotter than anything we experienced in Asia, which is saying something! We flew out from Singapore (cheap flight) on the 19th. Singapore was cool, abit weird to suddenly be in a perfectly clean and modern environment after all this time. We both said it was the cleanest place we've ever seen! ever! It was also very expensive. We were only there for about two da...

Well, we've finished our volunteer work, not long till we leave Borneo! The 'Tropical Garden' where we've been working is on the Sabah tourist trail as part of the 'Poring Hot Springs' facility. There are also Bamboo and Orchid Gardens, A Rafflesia (the world largest flower) center, Butterfly center, Canopy walkway, waterfalls and bat caves and of course, the hot springs themselves. The tropical garden didn't have many animals - an eagle hawk, turtles, more bird...

The Kinabatangan Safari has to be on the best things we've done here in Borneo. We saw so much of the wildlife in just three days it was amazing. We decided to go with a company called Uncle Tan's. They have been doing it for years and everyone says its your best chance of seeing the local fauna. They're guides were great very friendly and all guitar players ;) We knew we were onto a good thing when we arrived off the boat (you got to the camp site by boat). The...

The sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation centre rescues orphanned Orang Utans and rehabilitates them so that they can live in the wild or at least be semi wild living at the reserve. Towards the end of their Rehab the orangs are free inside the reserve but extra food is provided twice a day on platforms, these feeds are the only bit that tourists are allowed to see. So after seeing Orangs in the wild we won't expecting too much from the day, it was actually pretty c...