Having scaled granite peaks in Kinabalu and squeezed through limestone karts in Mulu we took a few days out of our time in Kuching to visit Bako National Park, which we understood to have spectacular sandstone formations dramatically carved by the sea and wind. We had heard a lot about this place from other travellers but didn't really want to expect too much as we have experienced so many other amazing things in Borneo. The park was only a bus and a boat ride a...

Our final stop in Malaysia was in the capital of Sarawak, Kuching, which is Malay for cat and the city is pretty obsessed with them with cat statues on nearly every corner and it has the only cat museum in the world. The city doesn't have any spectacular sights apart from an old British fort which the governor of Sarawak has decided to move into and has closed to the public (selfish!) so we just wandered around the streets of Chinatown and little India sampling s...

We have had an amazing week at Gunung Mulu national park in northern Sarawak, it is one of the most unusual places we have visited so far on our travels... After leaving Semporna we returned to Kk for a night before catching a flight to Mulu as this is the only way to reach the remote park which includes the worlds largest caves, the worlds largest single cave bat population, lots of jungle, rivers and amazing limestone landscapes. On our first day we mainly re...

We spent a night in another weird coastal lay-over town called Semporna. We were two of only a handful of westerners and we were constantly being starred at by the locals, who were amused by the whiteness of our skin (some more than others - the deepness of Gwenno's tan meaning she will pass as a local soon enough!) this culminating in a less than conspicuous family of locals following us around a whole supermarket led by their curious young daughter. We eventual...

We really didn't know what to expect of The Danum Valley Field Centre and even after spending 3 days there we are still a bit confused about the place! We really wanted to go to Danum Valley as it is meant to be the best place in Borneo to see wild animals. Unfortunately the tourist 'Rainforest Lodge' in the valley would have blown about a months budget so we had been trying to get into the research centre which sometimes allows tourists. The field centre is prim...