Robbie’s Travel Adventure!

Sorry this last update has taken so long but internet access has either been rare, or rather expensive! We are currently about to spend our last night in south east asia! We are in singapore and fly out at about 11pm local time tomorrow!

After Borneo we returned to Kuala Lumpur and actually managed to leave the airport! We spent four days resting our extremely tired legs and exploring the city. Kl is a mass of cultures with China town, the colonial district and little india all within walking distance of each other. We spent most of our time just  roaming the city, taking in the many different buildings, atmospheres and people. We also vistited several of the large shopping centres which were quite ridiculously big! The main attraction was the twin Petronas towers, towering high above the sky line. We went to visit the towers and go up to the sky bridge, as well as the exhibition, shopping centre and cinema inside! Them next day we visited the communications tower, which although shorter than the twin towers, offered better views of the city. It was nice to be back in a big bustling city after a month or so without.

 Next we headed north to the cool temperatures of the cameron highlands. We welcomed to 21 degrees as a refreshing break. ring our few days there we did a short hill walk which was supposed to take 6 hours but took us 2 and a half. Kinabalu had obviously given us good practise! We also visited a tea plantation, that stretched for 2,200 acres. Unfortunately production is now all mechanised so there were no pickers out in the fields but it was very interesting none the less! From the cool highlands we headed to the roasting heat of the Perhentian islands. After a 5 hour bus ride we boarded a small boat and sped towards the islands. Once there we were able to do nothing but relax. Lying on the white sands or swimming in the clear see, getting a good look at all the coral and fish. After a few days of solid relaxation we got on a 11 hour bus bound for Singapore. We arrived this morning and have been wandering around the shopping districts all afternoon. Now its just a case of waiting for our return flight tomorrow evening!

 So i suppose this is my final post! I hope you all enjoyed reading about our travels and i shall see all of you very soon!

After 6 days in Malaysian Boreno we are back in Kota Kinabalu waiting to fly to Kualar Lumpur in the morning. On arrival we went to a travel agents in town to book our climb up mount Kinabalu. The only free space was on the 15th, so from KK we headed to Sepilok. Whilst there we visited a rainforest wildlife centre, unfortunately we didnt see as much wildlife as we had hoped! However afterwards we went to the Orangutan rehabilitaion centre. We arrived in time for feeding, along with a large crowd of tourists. As the keepers arrived with a bucket of bannanas a lone orangutan appeared to feed. He was not completly alone however, as there were other monkeys on the hunt for bannanas! The crowd obviously scared off the other orangutans. Luckily on our way out we saw the same one up a tree on the side of the path and he gave us our own show! We then headed back to KK in preparation for the climb.

 We left our hostel at about 7am and about 2 and a half hours later we were at the park headquarters. Once we had collected our guide and our packed lunch we jumped in a bus to the start point which is at just over 1000m above sea level. From here we began our ascent to our over night stop at 3300m. It was a hard long slog in cloud all the way but we were relieved to reach our lodge about 4 and a half hours later. After a quick hours sleep before dinner the weather had cleared in time for a glorious sunset! We got an early night for our extremely early start of 2.30am the next day! We woke up still knackered from the day before, donned our head torches and set out for the summit! The sky was still clear and the stars were incredible. It was considerably colder and got colder still the higher we climbed. Altitude sickness, which had set in late in the climb the day before, was taking its toll but we pressed on. We reached the summit at 4090m at about 5.30 just as the sun began to rise. Although the temperature was close to freezing we admired the amazing view of the sun rising from high above the clouds! Half an hour, lots of photos and some shivering later we headed back down. We stopped of at the lodge for breakfast and a bit more sleep before the inal descent. By about 3.30pm we were back at park headquarters, struggling to walk but extremely pleased with our experience of the highest mountain in south east asia!

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