following morning after arriving back from our trek up Mt Kinabalu we headed to the airport. Aching and wishing we didnt have to go anywhere as we lugged our backpacks up and down stairs and in and out of taxis. When we got to the airport we discovered our 12:30 pm flight had been cancelled and we where now on the 3:30pm flight (annoyed was not the word as we could have had longer in bed!) Whilst waiting in line to check in we saw the four ladies from Kuala Lum...

Well! What a hike mt Kinabalu turned out to be. After much ummming & arrrring we finally decided to put our names down to climb Mt Kinabalu. At this point we didnt realise we would be climbing half the height of Everest, in terretial jungle rain! The morning of 17.09.08 we headed to Kota Kinabalu long distance bus station and caught out bus to Mount Kinabalu national park, 2 1/2 hrs north east of Kota Kinabalau. We arrived, signed our life away payed the fe...

We were picked up from the Jungle Resort by a 4x4 on 13th Sept ready to start our tour deep into the Jungle. We arrived at our home for that night 3 hours later after a bumpy ride off road through the jungle and then by boat over the Kinabatang River to the place where we where staying that night. We checked into our room and went on a 2 hr cruise of the Kinabatang River for which we saw a Hornbill bird, and various other birds and lots of Macaque & probiscus...

After 6 hrs on a bus from kota Kinabalu through the Borneon Jungle, up, down & round mountains we made it to Sandakan. We got a taxi from here to Sepilok 45 minutes down the road. Sepilok really is in the middle the jungle and really does has wild Orangutans in the local area. It felt weird to be in one of the only places in the world in which these animals can still be found in the wild. We were dropped off at our hotel for the next 3 nights called the Sepil...

Flying into Borneo we couldnt see alot as it was night but the lights of Kota Kinabalu were beautiful. After we had got through customs we grabbed a taxi and made our way to our hostel called The Step-Inn Lodge. The area was not the best but the hostel was lovely along with the people that ownerd and worked there. They made us feel at home from the second we walked through the door. We spent a few days in and around Kota Kinabalu. We went to some islands just of...