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Montag, 14. Februar 2011

On a mission in Sabah, on Borneo, in Malaysia

Our arrival in Sabah started with a small hick-up. 2 Out of 3 bags did not arrive. Malaysian Airlines, who had already mishandled our bags on our first trip, 9 years ago as well (!!), was very professional and within a short time, the located the bags and brought them to Kota Kinabalu.

Backtracking to the East was not planned, but Matthew was selected for a project with Mike Horn, a South African adventurer who runs a 4 year environment-awareness project for and with teenagers, and due to Indian immigration laws, we all left for Borneo.

Before seeing off Matthew to his assignment, we checked out the Sunday market in Kota Kinabalu and the 3 of us went on a small trip to Mount Kinabalu:



On the Sunday market
On the Sunday market

The way up onto the mountain was quite hard. Loads of stairs. We did the 5 km to the starting point, which was the easy part, then we 'climbed' 3.5 km on the stairs.
Going down was the easy part :-)


With Matthew away for 13 days, Robin and Sonja stayed a bit in town before taking a bus to the Eastern part of Sabah, we stayed in Sepilok for a few nights:



Visit to the Orang Utan rehabilitation center

Visit to the botanical garden and nature center in Sepilok.

                                     


The fishmarket in Sandakan town.

Some history: the Japanese memorial park for the 2nd world war.  Terrible!


We received a ‘golden tip’ from some backpackers in Kota Kinabalu, which turned out to be really good! A 2 hour bus ride took us from Sepilok to Sukau, at the Kinabatangan river.


We stayed with a family of 8, father Osman is the ‘jungle man’, and took us around on his boat on the river.


Osman's garden, after some rain...  all houses are build on poles, for a good reason!!


Picture:  COPYRIGHT by Robin! Cool isn't it! 

Picture:  COPYRIGHT by Robin!

Together with us, a family from Denmark visited Osman.

Tell Osman what you want to see and there is a good chance he finds it! We were very close to the pigmy elephants.

Kinabatangan river

Monkeys on the Monkey-Bridge, just before the sun went under.

We returned to Kota Kinabalu, did the laundry, the homework, the planning for our trip to Singapore and stuff like that. It was raining a lot, but the hostel was nice and we enjoyed hanging out a bit. 

After Matthew returned we went for a dentist check up (we were so lucky to find a really good dentist), and just 2 days later our AirAsia flight took off for Singapore. 

Borneo was really nice. Would certainly recommend to go! 







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