Blogs from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia, Asia - page 36

My hair is all matted and messy, I'm red in the face, my body feels relaxed, utterly and completely satisfied...that's right folks that can only mean one thing...diving!!! Bliss, bliss, bliss. If this is all my life amounted to, it would be okay. The dayt before yesterday, a business card in hand, I walked into Scuba Paradise. Lo and behold there was Reuben. A rather tall guy with a dark tan and a sun burnt face. Haha...a beach bum, I like him already. It wasn't until later that I realized how much he reminds of my brother in a lot of ways. Arrangements were made, my hotel pick-up arrived at 9.30 in the AM...it was Henry. We drove the 15 minutes to Sutera Harbour where Boy met us in a speedboat. There is no other ... read more

Touched down in Kota Kinsbalu late afternoon. Air Asia is a little shambolic but they seem to get the job done. Greeted by an over-excited dude holding a piece of plastic with my name on, after a hearty handshake we went to his jeep packed 2 feet from the airport. A short drive and we were at the hostel, it has everything we need and is pretty good but not what I expected. It is basically a family home, with just a couple of dorm rooms. Can't complain tho, they seem friendly. Not much in the town really, doesn't seem too touristy. Found a proper Malay supermarket tho, can't believe how cheap things are. Found a bakery brought a few things that look like bread only to bite into them and get a strange evil goo ... read more

From a land below the wind Asia » Malaysia » Borneo » Sabah » Kota Kinabalu By ana_be_goodApril 7th 2007AnaSabah, what can I say? It has been 3 days now I have felt the full 3 days. We arrived on day one after a 3 hour flight from KL. Met up with the gang without any complications. After coffee we headed into town to look for a place to stay. After looking at a couple of places we ended up at this charming lil place and stayed for 2 nights. Ahh don't feel like doing anything today. Not even write. Will update later. ... read more

We got the ferry at 1pm from Muara to Pulau Labuan, on the way to the ferry terminal we thought we had spotted an information board so went over to have a look; it turned out to be a wanted Board for about twenty Indonesian men with mug shots, it did make me laugh. Another thing I forgot to mention about Brunei was that it is illegal to kiss in public & not customary to shake hands with the opposite sex, just a little interesting fact! We arrived at Pulau Labuan & headed to the hostel listed in only Lonely Planet book, it was a complete hole but was the only place that was a reasonable price with an available room so we decided to stay for one night & head to Kota Kinabalu on ... read more

Selamat Datang! The 3 weeks of Phase 1 of our Programme have now come to a successful close. How time flies! Our teams have spent the best part of the last month living and working in small rural communities, in remote environmental conservation areas or trekking through remote jungle. They’ve started building the infrastructure for much-needed village or forestry facilities, taught English, organised sports tournaments, learned how to cook local food and much more besides. Most importantly perhaps they’ve learned to adapt to life without the things that many of us take for granted: running water, electricity, beds to sleep in and the other material and psychological comforts of home. The highlight of last week was undoubtedly Monday, when the 9 groups arrived back from their project sites and then stayed for a couple of nights ... read more