The Kinabatangan river in Sabah, eastern Malaysia on the island of Borneo is the second longest river in Malaysia, at 560 kilometres long. Home to Borneo’s highest concentration of endemic species – such as the proboscis monkey, Borneon orang-utan and pygmy elephants – we knew that a visit to Borneo would not be complete without visiting this spectacular part of… Read more →
Food, glorious food! I’ve made no secret of my love for food and desire to eat new things in our travels, and Malaysia has definitely bought home the bacon – well, not actual bacon, but you get what I mean. Mmmm, bacon… Any way, back to Malaysia and it’s incredible food. After not being too impressed with the food in… Read more →
Has it really been three months already?! Our travels are flying by yet at the same time it feels as though we have been away forever. The last month definitely feels as though it’s been the longest – we’ve covered so much more ground compared to our other trips and at a slower pace so that we are really getting… Read more →
The Borneo part of our Malaysian adventure started in Kota Kinabalu. With originally 2.5 days to spend in the area, this quickly reduced to one full day – delays with our flight meant we didn’t arrive until evening on our first day, and our last day was taken up by a visit to the Aussie pub in KK to watch… Read more →
The tropical climate in Malaysia has given us grief since we first arrived. Whilst we have endeavoured to not let it slow us down, we’ve found that we have been seeking out the icy refuge of an air-conditioned shopping mall more often than any other trip so far! It’s one of the reasons we were so looking forward to our trip… Read more →
Our second month on the road has been much less dramatic than the first – we’ve really started to find our groove and have visited some amazing, one of a kind destinations. There are probably three phrases I would use to summarise this month – aching muscles, looooooong travel days and dodgy hotel rooms. Here’s the low down on what’s… Read more →
The words ‘Singapore’ and ‘budget’ don’t often go together hand in hand – as one of the world’s wealthiest countries, it’s a destination that is often overlooked by backpackers. It shouldn’t be though! Singapore is a fantastic stopover for a few days after travelling off the beaten path in other South East Asia destinations, and it’s modern conveniences can be… Read more →
I love food. Not just love, but LOVE. Often my first thoughts waking up in the morning are ‘What am I going to eat today?’. If you ask me what my favourite thing I did that day was, it’s generally the meal I ate. It may not be the best activity for my waistline, but I figure that life is… Read more →
Kawah Ijen was never part of our original travel plans – simply because we hadn’t heard of it. But once we did learn of its existence – ‘it’ being the largest acidic crater lake in the world, of turquoise colour and that shoots ‘blue flames’ at night – well, we had to go! Getting there was our first hurdle. We… Read more →
We’ve had an amazing time so far in Indonesia and visited some beautiful places. However, to be perfectly honest – nothing has quite made our jaw drop as of yet. Nothing we have seen has been particularly ‘unique’ or new – the beaches back at home in beautiful Perth rival everything we’ve seen so far. That’s why we have been… Read more →
