Wading through the floods to Sepilok

Meeting the big ginger guys in the jungle....

January 15th 2007
Rain, Rain go away..... Kate: We left Kinabalu Park early on a very wet morning, by waving manically at passing long distance buses until one stopped and let us aboard. If we had thought it was raining alot at the National Park, we were about to be proved very wrong. As we wound round the roads towards Sandakan and the Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary, the rain got heavier and heavier. ... read more

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more

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It started in November 2006, when we quit our jobs, rented out our house, sold our belongings and set off in search of adventure in South East Asia. Backpacking around SE Asia followed, along with working with elephants in Pattaya, a TEFL course in Thailand, teaching in Bangkok, Madrid, Bournemouth.... "Where next?" you might ask. Well, the pull of the East was too great, so we hot-footed back to Thailand, and then onto Vietnam. We spent a year teaching in a language centre in Haiphong in the North of Vietnam. Then we went searching for the bright lights of the big city and taught ... full info

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