Sat 27th I got the poshest train into town from the airport- TV adverts and everything. Then to monorail to the Green House lodge which is lovely new and has free internet- bonus! I sat talking to a few girls and then checked my email and went to bed about 1am. Sun 28th Up to type my blog. Then I went up the Menara tower which has great veiws of the city with head phone comentary. I then walked to the Petronas towers (photos to come) and went in the very posh shopping mall for lunch- Jacket potato-mmm (I know I [View Full Entry]

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If anyone from the group wants to email me a good photo of the longhouse for this bit it would be great as my camera died. Thur 25th Up and into 2 minibusses to drive most of the day to the river to get in even even thinner longboats. We stopped at a fruit market on the way and bought some weird and wonderful fruits and had a penut and butter pancake which were lovely. The river was fail flooded when we got there and we seemed to be sitting very close to the river. But we arrived uncapsised to a [View Full Entry]

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Tue 23rd We go to the airport (one undercover walkway waiting room) to find our flight has been delayed till the afternoon so we sat waiting for it and playing cards. Then as the plane came to land it started raining so it turned around and couldn't land. It was stil planed to try again but in the end they canceled it. The airline put us up in a 5* resort which the resort only atually classed as 3* but was nicer than what we were use to. unfortunatly it was 4pm and the day had gone. We swam in the [View Full Entry]

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Mon 22nd 15min into our walk to the caves it starts raining and I mean really raining- the insides of my trainers are wet because of the rain running down my trowser leg. There is a shelter near the caves and when we get ther it just about stops raining!! We visit Lang cave which has lots of stalagtites and mites and we spot shapes and pictures in them. AN dthen walk through the huge Deer cave that could easily fit St Pauls cathedral in to it. It is full of bats which means it it full of bat poo which [View Full Entry]

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Fri 19th Last night wemet the other half of the new group- Luc, Nathalie and Eric from french canada and Michelle from Aus. We had an early start to drive to river where we boarded weird bots that were the top half of aroplans with thee seats stuck onto boats. I got the front sleep and sleped for the first 3hr boat ride. We stoped in a small town for some food and to by sarongs and these completely rubber shoes called Addidas Campong. Then back on a different but same type of boat for about 4 hours. I sat on [View Full Entry]

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wed 17th Jan In the morning we traveled to the airport and flew back to Kota Kinabalu where we stayed in a lovely place at the seaside. In teh evening we had our last meal together and then went into town back to where we spent our first night and then onto a club. Thur 18th Jan Un thismornign and said goodbye to all but David, Michelle, jason, Dee and Melinda as we head of for the second part of the trip and the others go home. We left them in the pool in the sunsine and flew to Miri where [View Full Entry]

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Tue 16th Jan Still raining hard the next morning we got a choppy boat ride back to the main land- somehow I managed to sleep. We then got taxis to the Orangutan rehabilitation centre. We went down to watch the first lot of Orangutangs at 11. Ofcourse it was raining but not to hard. There were lots of pigtailed maquaks trying to steal the pupmkin food. At the end the big male came and scared all the females away. Lots of films and photos taken. After lunch we watched a really good film about the rehabilitation programe and then went back [View Full Entry]

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Sun 14th Jan After I last wrote I went back to get a well needed shower and then met Rachel adn Claire at 5 to go and visit a temple- the others had all gone to a Australian war memorial first. We couldn't get up to the temple as there had been a land slide because of the rain!! Are you suprised! So we went straight to The English Tea House which was where the governor use to live. It was very expensive and food didn't live up to English standards. For Dee's birthday we all went out to Kareokee in [View Full Entry]

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Fri 12th A 8.45 Bus journey to Batu Puteh Village which is on the Kinabatangan river and on the edgeof the jungle. However suprise suprise because of the rain it is to wet and muddy to camp in the jungle so we have 2 nights staying with a local family. First we went of a boat ride up the river and saw lots of long tail monkeys and an Orangutan making its nest for the night which was very cool but very high up in the trees to see clearly. We eat dinner in a large open room by the river [View Full Entry]

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Wed 10th After we had all made it down the mountain we headed of to Poring hot springs for what was suppost to be a relkaxing couple of days in the hot water. HOWEVER... When we arrived to flooding had blocked the water pipes and so the whole village had no running water so no showers. Not a problem I thought lets all go to the hot springs to wash. Of we go across the road- half an hour before closing to find that most of them are shut for referbishment and those that are leftlook green and like you'd be [View Full Entry]

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