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Semporna/Tawau Trip - 06 Asia » Malaysia » Borneo » Sabah » Semporna By tongkyOctober 24th 2006Hi all, This is teh First Day of Raya Puasa and i'm heading from KK to Tawau with AK5835 which expected to torch down at 4.20pm. My buddy, Rusmin is picking me up at airport and later we will go to Semporna. At Semporna, i will visit my friend Din and we go visit navy base there. Meanwhile Rusmin will arrange some sight seeing place for me. Enjoy the rest of my exploration before going to Lahad Datu to meet another friend of mine. ... read more

Diving still incredible! Dived at different islands of Mabul and Kapalai yesterday, which was macro muck diving - very different from the pretty corals of Sipadan - lots of sand, wrecks, and random large objects and rocks to look under which was very fun. Saw completely different types of fish - crocodile fish, HUGE cuttlefish, massive groupers (literally twice the size of me) and the weird looking stonefish, frogfish, leaf fish and pipefish - very cool! Today was my last day of diving at Sipadan - was a fantastic day and one of the dives was the BEST dive I've done here so far - more sharks than I've ever seen in my life, they were literally everywhere! And turtles gliding around every direction you look, and even saw a big school of squid mating - ... read more

Kat writes: After jigging along on a local bus for an hour we reach our destination Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre and it is so worth the journey. A centre, on the edge of protected jungle, where they rehabilitate orphaned Orangutan's with the aid of WWF UK. They teach them everything, even how to climb and then send them back out to the wild. Unfortunately the centre had just suffered a major blow- at the beginning of the month a monsoon totally destroyed their tourist viewing platforms. This is where Orangutans that they have released come back if they want to for food. Some can never fend for themselves and return everyday after their release and some they never see again! Despite the missing platforms people were still turning up, including us, so they opened up ... read more

well here i am again. at this precise moment i am sitting in an internet cafe in kings cross sydney. this is a cool city but more of that in my next blog. this installment is totally dedicated to my new favourate place in the whole world. Kota Kinabalu or KK as its affectionally known by the locals is on the west side of sabah, borneo. its the capital and is a city but only small compared to liverpool or sydney. we were there for a week and what a week it has been. we touched down after an immence time in the jungle and were looking forward to a nice week of sunning it on the beach. it was raining and the skies were grey due to fires in indonesia. i was slightly gutted to ... read more

So the trip starts once again. After landing in back in Borneo I decided not to rough it and checked into the Hyatt to have a relaxing day or two before attemting this 4100m mountain. Room service of steak and chips helped me settle back into the Malay way of life. I was severley jet lagged but had no choice to climb it two days after my arrival since the mountain accomoation was fully booked until the end of October. I left KK at 7am on Monday for the mountain. I hooked up with an English mountaineer to do the climb with and share the cost of the guide. The first day climb was the hardest and we managed to do it in about 3 and a half hours. Not bad as the average is 5 ... read more