Kota Kinabalu - City of Chinese Widow

Sorry for the delay in updating my movement since I have been away, having succumbed to the lure of a tour in Borneo the schedule was so tight that email was impossible to use for more than about than 5 seconds a time. I will give you a quick update on my 10 day whistle-stop tour of Sabah, the Eastern province of Borneon Malaysia.

The trip started with a climb up the highest mountain in South-East Asia, Mount Kinabalu (4,101m ASL) - this was pretty grueling and was only finished by a few of our albeit elderly group (only 3 of us were under the age of 30, and only 1 more was under 40). I will update with photos when I arrive in Saraburi. The agony of the climb was followed by the ecstasy of an evening in a natural Spring bath which helped to sore some of the aches and pains.

The mountain climb was followed by 2 nights in a jungle lodge and 2 solid days of wildlife spotting, the spotting was mostly for monkeys (of which there were 4 types) and also the King of the Borneo jungle the orangutan. We were lucky enough to see a mother and child oranagutan in the wild which was amazing however like a tool my camera had run out of batteries by the time we saw them!

OK I will put out an update tomorrow regarding the 2nd leg of the trip.. sorry if this reads like a boring travel diary I will try and jazz it up for tomorrow.

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written by  Michael Russell on March 3, 2009 from Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
from the travel blog: Escape from Blighty
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