Making sure I made use of the last possible hour available to me on my 12 month Australian working holiday visa, I booked a flight to closest and most exciting place I could think of, Malaysia. My first taste of Asia. Hanging out with an old university friend Ling, in her hometown Kuala Lumpur, I started to wonder what exactly it was I was going to do with myself in Malaysia. January is monsoon season so all of the East coast of Malaysia was closed off, leaving me with very few options, so I started flicking through Ling's stack of Lonely Planets untill I came across Borneo. I quote 'Deep, dark and exotic, the very notion of Borneo rouses something in the subconscious.' I think that was enough to persuade me to check out flight prices,
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