Blogs from Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia, Asia
October 4th 2011
My lie-in means staying in bed almost until eight. T's a slow start and by the time I've showered and packed it's nine before I head out for breakfast. It's raining. Back to get my bag and check e-mail. I get the the bus station about eleven and get told the next bus is at half past. The two hour bus ride to Tawau will cost me RM15. The 10 minute taxi ride the other end to the consulate will cost me RM10 each way. The LM says it's about 500 metres away so I decide to walk it. If you are planning to go to Tawau for a Indonesian visa, my advice is DON'T! Tawau is expensive and chaotic. Get your visa somewhere else. I've misread the LP and it's near a kilometre away and ... read more
August 6th 2009
Words cant express the satisfaction of this riders when they took the long ride every effort of calculation of fuel and food was taken in to consideration. few fell of there bikes due to overconfidence of handling there machine. It took us a total of 9 hours to make it to Maliau basin camp sight. The guys was hip and excited to explore the unknown freedom of riding through the rainforest of north borneo. There was some funny moments during the ride, we had shan who thought he had puled out the bike stan and got off and ended up on his back with the bike. Another zuki who thought the surface of the down hill was not slippery mad a bad decision negotiating a curved rolled over with the bike. Than there's the over confidence ... read more
June 21st 2009
June 22nd Today we're heading to Tawau, a town two and a half hours west of Semporna. After breakfast we packed the last of our things and walked to the mini-bus station. These buses only leave when full so we were prepared to wait a while. We didn't sit for more than 5mins before we left, even though there was only three other passengers on board. We drove around the block and picked up another three people. Then we stopped again near the mini-bus station and sat in the boiling vehicle for 10mins while we waited for more people to join our little gang. The bus filled slowly but surely and before we were totally boiled we left again, this time with a full load of passengers. We were excited to be moving on again. The ... read more
