Blogs from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, Asia - page 35

Borneo! Borneo is sooo amazing! If anyone gets the chance to go there, then go there! We had a ball and managed to do some real adventure stuff! Mt Kinabalu We had to wait about a week in Kota Kinabalu (Sabah province's capital) to climb Mt Kinabalu- the massive mountain towering over the city. You do the trek over two days, staying in a half-way house near the top so you can get up for sunrise at the summit. Its pretty cool the way you start off in hot, humid rainforest and end up crawling up a freezing cold rock landscape! It really does feel like you're on the moon! The mountain's just over 4000m high so there's not plants or anything and the air gets pretty thin! Everyone felt a bit sick even by ... read more

Press statement - Raleigh International Raleigh International can confirm that at 12.15pm (UK time) on 23.04.07 a road traffic accident took place involving one Raleigh International staff volunteer and nine other project participants, in Borneo, Malaysia. Toby Eaton-Baudains aged 29, volunteer project manager from Derbyshire, died from his injuries sustained during the road traffic accident which occurred while travelling back from Sepilok orang-utan sanctuary to the project site at Batu Puteh. Yi Ling Siaw, aged 20, and Matthew Fernandez, aged 19, sustained injuries and are currently at hospital in Kuala Lumpur. All other passengers were taken to hospital as a standard procedure, but are now in a hotel in Kota Kinabalu. Here they will be offered counselling and the opportunity to return to the UK if they wish. The accident occurred as the driver of ... read more

Current cravings: Tomato and cucumber sandwhich Grinspoon Western Bulldogs Im fairly certain that in the week that we have been here we have not seen one full set of teeth. The tooth fairy must be retired somewhere in the bahamas on a catamarahn after visiting this country. Well it hasn't even been a week but it feels like a month. I guess in our heads we thought it was going to be a little easier than what it actually is. We just assumed that there was going to be a bus system that circles the country and conviniently drops us at the door of the hostels we are staying at. Alas this is far from the case. The movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles doesnt scratch the surface of the rigmaroul (is that even a word, ... read more

hello everyone... its about 3 30 am in the morning but only time im able to get on a computer...so ill keep this short and sweet so since last phase I have gotten into a new group and headed off to danun valley for my environmental phase. it is about a 10 hour bumpy trip from kk to base camp plus a 45 minute trek but its a great spot right in the heart of the jungle. While I'm here I will be helping to complete a bridge that Raleigh has been trying to complete for the last 3 years. Our job is filling gabions...aka getting massive rocks from riverside up a hill into a metal cage...filling 5 huge ones...yea fun i know ...but we actually made it really fun. We finished all our gabions then ... read more

C'mon Utd! Yesterday I went snorkelling at a little island of the coast of Kota Kinabalu. Was pretty good, saw a turtle, don't think it was a giant one but still pretty cool. Tried to catch it but they're pretty speedy. Getting pretty good with fins on, my bounancy control is getting good even without a BCD. Can dive pretty deep with a snorkel on, but had to stop doing that when my ears started to hurt - hope this doesn't continue into my diving. I also got a really, really, burnt back from snorkelling. Horrid. It is soooo red, could not sleep at all last night as was in a fair amount of discomfort. Someone cheeky person seems to have stole all my ibibufen and parcetemols etc. One of the effects of the malaria tablets ... read more