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.