Malaysia Borneo - Sabah

Our next destination was to return to Maylasia for just under two weeks. We flew into Kota Kinnabalu in Sabah and after a night or two figuring out our best route we made our way to Sepolik. Here we visited Sepolik Orang Utan Santurary where we got to sit in the jungles of Borneo and watch rehabilitated orang utans (Most were former drug users, but we did see a few that were former alcoholics..... Wait, no, forget it, that is just a picture of Ste. Easy mistake to make.) We spent the entire day watching monkeys and walking around the beautiful scenic routes. Was amazing seeing how like humans the orang utans were, and, how like the orang utans Ste was. Got some amazing pictures and at times were within touching distance of these beautiful animals.

We then carried on east to Sandakan where we had planned a few trips but ended up being very expensive, so we returned to KK for another 2 nights. While here we went on a trip to a local Mari Mari tribe village. This was great craic altogether as we learned how they started fires from rubbing bamboo together, where and how they lived, how they cooked their meals as well as joining in their traditions such as dancing, blowing darts from bamboo shoots, trying the local tobacco & rice wine, recieving traditional henna tattoos and playing traditional games. While here, Ste was elected chief and so had to enter first and be greeted by the tribes chief and warriors. (We were ok with this, until we remembered that these were head hunters. Then... well, Ste nearly crapped himself when some of the warriors jumped out of the trees on top of us). We were blessed by the village high priestess on our way in and finished off the evening by eating a dinner which was cooked inside bamboo shoots & banana leaves.

Relaxed around KK for another day before moving west towards Kuching (Sarawak).

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Part of trip: SE Asia

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