Still not feeling great but the drugs we picked up appear to be working so it looks as though our acting yesterday worked! We went out early to get our last few hours worth of car hire time. Visited the black sand beach (not ALL...
Up early today for a trek through the jungle once again, and another chance for Leslie to entertain us. This time it was the two of us so it felt like a personalised tour. We made our way through the jungle climbing up to the...
This has been just the best day ever! The first of three excursions into the nature reserve was to view the orangutans at feeding time. There are four orang-utans in the reserve but it is only Katie and Reg, the two younger ones, who come...
Having arrived at the Shangri-la Rasa Ria Resort late last night we didn’t get to do much and so we just had a wander around the grounds to familiarise ourselves with this beautiful hotel. This morning we arranged all of our nature trips for tomorrow...
We left Borneo Nature Lodge at 9am this morning with a boat trip down to where we’d left the minibus the previous day. Some parts of the riverbank looked as though they’d been trampled on overnight which meant that the elephants had been around. First...
Yet another early start (6am) for breakfast and the boat ride back to Sandakan. Got a better seat on the boat this time so it wasn’t as bumpy. We were driven to the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary which was a couple of hours outside of...
An early start this morning to get to Kota Kinabalu airport for our short flight to Sandakan, although I did get to watch the last half hour of the West Ham v Burnley game as we did our final packing. We were met in Sandakan...
Eventually made it to Kota Kinabalu after 24 hours door to hotel travelling. The flight into Kuala Lumpur arrived early so it meant more hanging around before catching the flight to Kota Kinabalu. The weather in KK is cloudy with a few rain showers but...