Orang U-glad we made it to Sepilok?

Now we're in Borneo, so we have to see at least one Orang Utan. After the thrills and spills of our rafting adventure, we set off across Sabah to the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary.

NB - Not a real Orang Utan

Real Orang Utan

Orang Utan + Baby

Feeding time - yum, but look out for the crafty, thieving Macaques!

The sanctuary rescues Orang Utans and rehabilitates them so they can return to live in the jungle. Here the newly re homed ones can follow the ropes back to this feeding platform, where they are guaranteed food if they need it.

Now we had a taste for wildlife! Booking ourselves onto a 3 day river boat trip, we went into the wilderness to see the rare and endangered species of Borneo's diminishing rain forest.

Our river lodge

Proboscis monkeys :)

After our evening trip up the river seeing hornbills, egrets, macaques and proboscis monkeys, we headed back to land and got dressed up all sexy like for a jungle night walk.

'They call me sexy leech sock Matt round here'

Big Worm

We spent the next day riding up and down the river looking at the various wildlife there - unfortunately we never saw the fabled pygmy elephants :(. Most of our group left the next day and undertook a Heart of Darkness style mission through the jungle to an Oxbow lake.

Jenny at Oxbow lake

Fishing for our lunch

Our lunch!

The muddy trek home

For dinner, after our long day, we were invited to a neighbour's house in the area to celebrate Hari Raya - a Muslim festival. The villagers weren't Muslim, but they liked a good celebration and invited everyone in the area to eat cakes, ice cream and biscuits. And drink rice wine. And dance to bizarre pop videos...Pamela one la la la...

The next day it was time for us to leave the jungle, but we decided to leave a little piece of ourselves behind, by planting a tree. Rudyard Sapling.

On the way home, our driver dropped us at a nearby park where you could learn about the rainforest.

Indiana Jenny

Paddington Matt

After a brief and exhilarating visit to Borneo, we booked a flight to exotic Bali for our last 9 days in South East Asia.

Bad-ass Padas (arf)

Hello blog fans, we're back at last! After you last saw us we were in Kuala Lumpur being touristy. After this we decided to get back to being adventurous and upon awaking at our hostel, we spontaneously jumped on the first available flight to Borneo! We arrived later that evening in Kota Kinabalu.

Kota Kinabalu's main tourist attraction...

After deciding that maybe KK wasn't the most exciting place ever, we booked ourselves in for a white water rafting adventure on the grade IV Padas river. We hit a few snags on the way though, for example the train had broken down! Luckily the guides had devised alternative transport for us...

So we were punted along the tracks (sometimes at quite a pace I can tell 'ee) to the starting point. We were feeling bold and adventurous.

Unfortunately, we couldn't take the camera aboard our vessel to record the terrifying rapids, 'body rafting' and near capsizing of the boat as we went down such rapids as 'The Washing Machine' and 'The Head Hunter'. You'll just have to take our word for it that the whole thing was very exciting, there was lots of screaming (mostly from Matt) and we all ended up very wet! Hopefully Li (part of our rafting crew) will send us the pictures she took with her waterproof camera.

Expecto Petronas! (towers)

After our sojourn into the remote hill of the Cameron Highlands, we celebrated our return to civilisation (and activity) by cramming in as many tourist attractions as we could in Malaysia's capital.

First on the list was the Bird Park:

Displaying peacock (scuttling across the path)

Pretty Flamingoes

Macaques at the bird park - wait a minute, you're not birds...

The butterfly park was just next door (look away now Fran)

Just round the corner was the Islamic Planetarium

Jenny in Spaaaaaace

Matt in the 'anti gravity' room. It had gravity though.

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The next day, despite our best attempts to get to the Petronas towers Skybridge, they had sold out almost as soon as it opened! So we went up a better tower instead. So there.

At the foot of the Petronas Towers

Viewing the Petronas Towers from our other, better tower.

Please note us being the Petronas Towers slightly to the left.

View from up top

Jenzilla

We spent the day in the centre of KL, shopping, and continuing our tourist adventure with...

...a visit to the aquarium!

...a messy Haagen Daaz treat

...and Formula One driving

The delights of KL exhausted, we booked our flights over to continue the Malaysian adventure in exotic Borneo!