It's All Well And Good Telling Me How Far It Is To London, But What About Shelford?!

Discovering Borneo Part 2: Cruising Rivers, (Almost) Climbing Mountains And Surviving Another Total Dump

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March 10th 2009
The bus pulled in and the driver told us this was our destination. I could see a sign for the ‘rose cabin’ (our hostel of choice) and so we jumped off. The bus slowly chugged round the corner and I looked at the sign again ‘Rose Cabin - 2 kilometres’. Damn. The bus had dropped us off at the Mount Kinabalu national park, rather than the hostel we’d asked the driver to stop at. There follo ... read more

Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Sandakan

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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