Blogs from Sabah, Malaysia, Asia - page 126

Wotto people how the devil are ya?? Well when a certain Mr Axle W Rose stated "welcome to the jungle we'll have fun and games" he wasnt wrong!! After our amazing time in KL we landed in the east of borneo on the 5th of october. the flight was good and it was great to fly over an island of jungle. to be fair personally the whole thing had not quite kicked in and i wasnt really prepared for what we had in store but it was amazing. we ended up at sandakan airport about lunchtimeish and got a taxi to our operations base 30 mins from the airport. this was the the offices of UNkle Tans Wildlife adventures. it was nice to go from a bustling city to the borneo courtyside and there was a ... read more

O.K Trip has begun. I was so happy to land after my Sep 11th flight. Safe I thought! Had no sleep and I was walking through arrivals where someone jumped on my back! Turned around and there was the wrong un. Only Mr Danial Pollard himself along with his Ting Tong. I knew it was goiung to get messy from this point in. Jumped in a cab and straighyt to Pat Pong. Anyone that knows him knows that he is morally wrong. Just stepped off a plane and now I'm fighting my way through ladyboys in a busy Bangkok bar. It could only happen to me. I wasn't too impressed with the ping pong show by the old hags but opening beer bottles with your fanny is one hell of an achievement in my book! So ... read more

What an amazing place the Malaysian state of Sabah in Borneo is! 2 weeks just wasn't enough to take in the amazing scenery, flora, fauna and marine life. We started off in the capital of Kota Kinabalu and used it as a base to explore South East Asia's highest mountain (coming in at almost 14000 ft), Mount Kinabalu. Unfortunately we didn't have the right equipment with us to make the ascent to the top, so instead we ventured around the national park at the bottom of the mountain. Martin also put his vertigo to the test again, by doing yet another tree top walk. This time it was just a rickety rope bridge suspended 41m above the ground! We spent one evening cruising down the Klias wetlands in search of the illusive big nosed Proboscis monkeys ... read more

So, we've finally managed to find some spare time AND an internet cafe to write up all our exciting adventures so far. I'll start at the beginning, so be prepared for a LOOONG read: We flew in with Malaysia Airlines on a direct flight and arrived in Kuala Lumpur at 2p.m. local time. Extremely tired after the night flight and jet lagged on top of all that we managed to stumble off the aeroplane and onto a train to KL sentral station. After wandering around for a bit we left our luggage there and went into town on the monorail. We arrived in an area well known by us, and started looking for a restaurant we had learned to love on our last visit. Unfortunately it was no where in sight and we ended up looking ... read more

I dived Sipadan and Mabul Islands back in July last year, I write now in January 2007. So here is a diving photo feast for those that like that kind of thing... My usual descriptive stories will resume shortly... I had all kinds of creative prose lined up for this but... Sipadan: Turtles the size of Volkswagon Beatles glide by, Baracuda tornadoes twist and twirl while sharks dart by evil eyes twisting in all the wrong directions. Mabul: A macro wonder-world, where every cranny holds a treasure... But it is slightly false (the turtles are smaller but still big for turtles) - and reads like a hyperactive tour brochure... but photos do not lie. Except the ones which have been colour corrected... the ones with lots of water looked a little greener in the originals. More ... read more