Our final day in the area of Kuching was spent at the Bako National Park, which is the oldest National Park in Borneo. We caught the local bus, which resembled a lego bus, and as the bus took off and hurtled down the road the windows sounded like they would collapse in on us!! After a very jolty ride we arrived at Bako or at least the port that would take us to the park. We hopped on to a small boat and sped over to the entrance to the park. It has to be said tha...

Thanks to Kenny, it was another early start for Sumera and I as we travelled 232km into the deepest darkest rainforest in Borneo to stay in a longhouse with an Iban tribe (Famous for being headhunters), whose village was located just off the banks of the Lemanak River. The Longhouse we were travelling to was the Jampang Longhouse... names of the Longhouses are based upon the chiefs surname. There was nobody else booked on this visit so Sumera and I had Kenny as ...

As promised by the tour operator we were picked up on the Monday morning at 8am to go and see the Orangutans. Our guide for the day was a lovely man called Kenny and we were soon to find out on the journey that he could talk for Borneo!! As knowledgable as Kenny was, we were not used to being up at silly o'clock and tried our hardest to keep our eyes open when he was telling us ALL about the orangutans. We got to the orangutan rehabilitation centre which was on a...

So here we are in Borneo, the third largest Island in the world!! We are in the northern state of Sarawak in a little town called Kuching, the city of cats (and before you ask.....I don't know why its called the city of cats, because I have only seen 1 cat) Kuching is a tidy small town with colonial style buildings and shop houses that line the water front selling woven baskets, wooden sculptures of scary people, intricate beaded necklaces and other crafts and an...