Day 9 Saba tea plantation. The long houses here are more like what I was expecting. Raised wooden huts with accommodation along one side and open at the other. They were mostly constructed of bamboo but had a tin roof. When we arrived we were informed that we would be sharing the place with an all girl school from Australia... Not as good as it sounds... I would have been put on a special list for the rest of my life if I had touched any of them! After dinne...

Day 8 Kinabatangan river. Today we were up early in the morning for another cruise along the river... No elephants this time. It's really pissing me off that my 70 - 300 lens is broken! More monkeys and hornbills!! After breakfast we took a walk to an Ox bow lake. Various bugs and a pigmy frog... Nobody got stuck in the mud though! When we came back I went kayaking with Jess... I can see now why Sean didn't want to get into a kayak with the fidgety easily d...

Day 7 5AM start today for our flight to Sandakan. Yes Aileen today we get to see Monkeys! We went for a meal at a place called the rainforest inn last night... Never, never, never, NEVER go there! I ordered garlic bread with my meal... Let's just say Gordon would have had plenty of F words to say about this place. I bit into a piece of the bread and it was soggy and tasted rank... I turned it over and discovered why... Lovely blue and green mold! (it's mak...

Day 10 Mt Kinabalu We set off from the base at 9am it is now 2:30... I am Fu*ked! Anyone who tells you this kind of thing is invigorating punch them in the face! In fact punch them twice! I have walked 6 kilometres and I am at 3250m above sea level... I was not built for altitude... Or slight inclines. The summit accommodation is a shared dorm and they are all ready cooking my dinner! It's great to see Carol & Dave, Triv & Karen and Chris here at t...

Day 6 A relative lie in and two flights today. There has been much mocking of Tracey this morning... and deservedly so! As well as her dinner making a reoccurrence so did breakfast! I knew the chirpyness was a facade! As we waited for the truck to take us back to the airport there was another Cluroe scream! This time nothing to do with me! Lisa didn't check her walking trainers before she put them on and had picked up a passenger! (didn't get a picture of th...