First Time On A Bus Ride In Borneo – Sandakan to Ranau
After 2 extra days spent in our hotel on the outskirts of Sandakan, due to me having a cold, and Laura feeling sick (I know these sound like excuses, but we really needed the...
Monthly Archive: July 2017
First Time Doing A Night Walk – Rainforest Discovery Centre – Sepilok
If you haven’t already picked up on it, I’m quite enthusiastic about the natural world. I’ve always enjoyed documentaries, books and virtually anything explaining about the bizarre and diverse creatures in the animal kingdom....
First Time Seeing Proboscis Monkeys – Labuk Bay – Borneo
After seeing so many orangutans the previous day, I was half expecting to have had my fill of apes. But unfatigued by a day spent with one of our closest ancestors, the following day...
First Time Seeing An Orangutan – Sepilok – Borneo
If you ask anyone to tell you everything they know about Borneo, they will almost certainly mention one thing. The Orangutan. They may, if they’re a patron of Greenpeace, mention palm oil and the...
First Time with Travellers Diarrhoea – A Tale of Two Toilets – Part One
First time using the bidet shower – or “Bum Gun” I have historically prided myself on a reasonably strong constitution when it comes to my gastroenteric system. I have only one memory – as...
First Time Snorkelling – Sapi Island, Kota Kinabalu
Our first Saturday in Sabah brought with it a number of firsts – on our first evening in Kota Kinabalu, we’d spotted a number of boating operators offering their services off Jesselton Point –...
First Time On A Long Haul Flight – Kota Kinabalu
Our first long haul flight loomed. Having taking my first flight only 10 months before, a daunting prospect was ahead of us. The road (or more accurately, sky) to Borneo consisted of a journey...