A Journey to Well Known Places

Borneo. The name conjures images of jungles and monkeys and death marches through the jungle. It still is that, minus the death marches but with great beaches. It is as ‘out there’ as we have been so far. Right now we are riding an express bus from Kota Kinablau to Sandakan. We are seated near the toilet in the back and the stench is overpowering. Erica calls it the butt bus. Aptly named. Maybe we should have slept in a little and caught the 8:30. Oh well. We landed in Kota Kinabalu four days ago and took a taxi to our hostel right across the street from the Atkinson clock tower. The first day we spent seeing the sights of the town which included the clock tower and a giant statue of a leaping marlin. Well, everyday can’t be exciting. The next two days though, we took a ferry to the national park twenty minutes outside of town. It was great. We snorkeled around the coral and saw lots of very colorful fish and plants. I even saw a sea turtle grazing along the reef. We are taking the bus to Sandakan so that tomorrow we can transfer to Uncle Tan’s jungle experience.

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