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Asia » Malaysia » Sabah September 22nd 2017

We arrived by boat in a small island called Labuan. I loved Malaysian food when I was in Kuala Lumpur a few months ago so I was excited for that again. Labuan, they say, is where people from Brunie come to chill from the strict rules of their country. It’s only a two hour boat ride away. They had alcohol, bars, clubs, hookers, the works. They had some sites for tourists which we planned to see, but then it rained. I wasn’t too disappointed though because we got a pretty good deal in Agoda for our accommodation. We got an $80 hotel room with free buffet breakfast for two for only $30! I rarely get to sleep in proper hotels. That only happens when I’m travelling with family. Otherwise it’s the usual backpacker hostel. The ... read more
Urangutan in Sepilok
Croc in the river!
Snorkeling in Sapi Island

Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Kota Kinabalu August 13th 2017

M'n eigen katten voor 3 weekjes gedag gezegd, startte mijn reis in Kuching: cat city! Het was nog een wonder dat ik Maleisie uberhaupt binnen was gekomen, want de dame bij de immigratie deed moeilijk over mijn gerimpelde paspoort van het zwemavontuur in de Schotse rivier afgelopen april. Uiteindelijk mocht ik "voor deze ene keer" het land in, maar ze maakte een aantekening onder de stempel, dat ik mijn 'beschadigde' paspoort zou moeten gaan vervangen. Van Kuching nog niet zoveel gezien, want we vertrokken de volgende ochtend meteen richting Bako National Park. Een prachtige plek aan de kust, waar genoeg te wandelen viel over het strand, langs de mangrove en in de jungle. Meteen na de lunch maakten we ons eerste wandelrondje. De zwaarte hiervan was niet uit te drukken in kilometers of hoogtemeters, maar in ... read more
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Asia » Malaysia » Sabah August 1st 2017

Så kom dagen hvor vi tog mod kota kinabalu. Vi ankom til Kota Kinabalu omkring kl. 13, og valgte at tage en bus for 5 RM ind til byen. Vi stod af nær gaya street, og fandt hurtigt et hostel, hvor vi valgte at sove i et kvinde dorm til 30 kr pr nat, der mødte vi en sød malaysisk kvinde, som vi snakkede lidt med og, som gav os nogle gode råd og hjalp os med vores mange spørgsmål. Om aftnen havde vi rigtigt planlagt at tage til en strand, som lå en 30 min gåtur og en bustur fra vores hostel. Både vores hostel og den malaysiske kvinde havde sagt, at det var et fint sted, især til at se solnedgangen (vi ville bade), men da vi ankom til busserne, blev vi stoppet af ... read more
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Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Mount Kinabalu June 28th 2017

Sometimes in life its important to get to the top of something. I thought about 20 years ago how great it would feel to climb a mountain. Sit at the top and watch the sun rise... So in this my 50 year time was running out to climb a proper mountain. I had got to the top of Snowdon but that was in a train so didn't really count. I looked at the map, saw mount Kinabalu not far from where our flight was going in Brunei.13,000 ft, 20th highest mountain in the world (going by some strange stand alone summit calculation). 2 day hike, Me and Ollie (while Ginny chilled out in KK)...surely that would be achievable - they even bus you half way up so its only a 9km hike with an ascent of ... read more

Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Kota Kinabalu April 17th 2017

Geo: 5.92492, 116.05As usual before travel day, I did not sleep much, but hopefully this means I should be able to sleep on the overnight flight home and be ok when we get to London! ( although watching 5 films is probably a little more likely!!)We packed, had a monster breakfast and went to checkout by 11am with our boat leaving the island at 1pm. Check out took forever as they had people arriving at the same time!! We managed to get our red bottle of wine for free by playing naivety about it and went to sit in the bar on the sofas until it was time to catch the boat. There was no sign of our bags on the jetty, but we were assured they were on their way. There were lots of fishes ... read more
Last time up the mountain to the room
Lambs sad to be going too!!
Sitting in the bar

Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Kota Kinabalu April 16th 2017

Geo: 6.01808, 116.048We got up early to nab a good sun bed by the pool today. It was pretty cloudy but meant that there were beds free down there at 8.30am. We had a sit and a read before breakfast so we again would not need any lunch. Breakfast was the usual gorge on food of many nationalities.We then sat and rotated and sat some more. We both ended up slightly red tinged by around 3pm, when we retired for a cool down and a snooze.We had booked into the fancy restaurant called 'the fisherman's cove'. Surprisingly it was a fish restaurant!! And it was posh. More artwork than food. It was delicious. That was it. Our last whole day in paradise. Tomorrow we pack and fly :(... read more
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Us suited and booted
Restaurant

Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Kota Kinabalu April 15th 2017

Geo: 6.01905, 116.049I have a cold too mum!! It maybe the masses amounts of aircon around, but I'm blaming Jamesy as that's the kind of wife I am!! By pure fluke (and the help of the cold) I was awake (therefore Jamesy was awake!!) to see sunrise. It was a good'un too, with lots of changing colours appearing over the mountains. We went back to sleep and got down to the beach around 9 again. Our spot had been stolen from yesterday, so we moved along the beach a little way, equally as paradisiacal as the previous choice. After breakfast we read books/kindles and generally dozed in the sun. As time went on, I began to feel pretty grotty, so headed back up to the room for a 2pm snooze, whilst james sat on the corner ... read more
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Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Kota Kinabalu April 14th 2017

Geo: 6.01816, 116.048My stupid body clock woke me up at 6.30am and james not long after that. After a doze and some tv, we embarked on the suncream ritual that seemed to be the theme of the week. We learned from the previous days errors and went to find a sun lounger before breakfast. As it was still relatively early, we had a sit on the beach, leaving breakfast a little later so we did not need lunch. Breakfast was as epic as the previous day and I was suitably full for a day sitting on the beach. And sir we did. It was a lovely sunny day, with a bit of a breeze. We had mangrove kayaking at 1pm with around 6 other double kayaks. It was ok, not all that thrilling as we just ... read more
Kayaking
Glad rags
Making fishes

Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Kota Kinabalu April 13th 2017

Geo: 6.01957, 116.048Today was a beach day, we took everything down with us as it would be such a mission to get back up to the room just to pick up our beach stuff. Breakfast was as huge as dinner the previous night, most things you could imagine. You all know I can't turn down a pastry though ;) We got to the beach around 10 and all of the sun loungers had been baggsied with towels, so we found a spot under a big tree and were quite content to lay on the sand. We went for a swim in the sea, although the red flag was out due to potential jellyfish. We only saw 1 and kept well away from it. We had signed up (yes james volunteered/was made to feel guilty if he ... read more
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James in the sea

Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Tawau » Lahad Datu April 10th 2017

Geo: 5.01965, 117.746Breakfast was at 7am, and considering some of our other starts, this was not too bad. A quick piece of watermelon, a cup of tea and a chat with a couple from Norwich, we were loaded into the boat to go down to Abai Village lodge for our village visit and to plant another tree, as we did in Brazil. We were shown to our cabin by our guide known as bones (Erdy). Pretty much identical to the last lodge we stayed in, although there was air con of you fancied paying £20 for the night. We didn't!! Such cheap skates!! After a nap, we met the other 9 people in our group and went to plant our tree. It was a type of umbrella tree, each given their own ID number, etched into ... read more
By the river
Proboscis monkey
Sunset




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