So you could probably see Niah National Park in a day trip from Miri but we were heading this way anyway so we figured we'd just go there and stay overnight. It turns out it's ridiculously easy to book accommodation at Sarawak's national parks, there's a website, you can just use that to reserve anything [...]
We'd flown into Miri from Labuan on account of the fact we didn't want to go through Brunei. Shit to do around but not in Miri includes Lambir Hills National Park which is an easy day trip from the long distance bus terminal. We dragged ourselves out of bed at some god awful hour to [...]
I like rafting but I don't like rafting enough to be picked up from my hotel at five fucking twenty in the morning to travel for a million hours to a river that I'll only be spending about ninety minutes on. In order to avoid this we travelled to a little town called Beaufort, which [...]
At the moment everything up here at the Tip of Borneo is pretty much free. I say at the moment because I still can't believe a place this perfect exists in 2017 without being overdeveloped to the point of destruction. You can park everywhere for free, you can access every beach for free and no [...]
Fuck it. I'm staying here forever. I'm in love with The Tip Of Borneo and I never want to leave. It's one of those places that you have to get to before it goes the way of Lands End with a hideous visitor centre. It's already developing but right now it still has that middle [...]
After Nat and Laura buggered off back home myself and Tarrant decided to go to Poring for the sole purpose of looking at a massive flower which may or may not be there right now. We really wanted to wrap our eyeholes around a rafflesia and we'd heard that Poring was one of the best [...]
I woke up with crippling stomach pains and a sphincter looser than Indonesian road rules. Holy fuck, what had I eaten to deserve this? I was meant to be doing four dives today and no way did I want to cancel any of them. I weighed up my options; I could maybe skip the first [...]
Diving at Sipadan Island costs the kind of money that makes all of your internal organs contract and you have to go and apply lots of beer to them and calm down a little bit before you return to the dive shop website you were looking at with a deep breath whilst trying to reassure [...]
There's nothing like watching the sun rise over the canopy of a primary rainforest, and it's even better if you don't have to walk up a massive bastard hill to do this. We were picked up from the dorm room at some god awful hour in the morning and driven to a shed on stilts [...]
I don't recall where I first read about Danum Valley Conservation Area when I was researching Sabah, possibly the Lonely Planet, fuck knows, but I knew that we definitely wanted to try and visit. It's a largely untouched swathe of rainforest which still has areas of primary rainforest, a rarity in Borneo where acres of [...]
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