Island Hopping :)

Well today Bec and I are feeling a bit better so we decided to hire a boat and go Island hopping! For $15 each we got a boat to ourselves and taken to 3 awesome Sabah islands. Menutik, Menukan and Sapi islands. The weather is perfect too, Blue sky's, good snorkeling, Becs even getting time I read her new book. It's a peacefully vibe here on the islands. Definitely a highlight of being here in KK. :)

My turn to be sicky

Bec is feeling 80% better now, thanks for all the well wishes on FB. But now I have got sick! Grrrrr, so last night I took the fight to it, I turned off the air conditioner bundled myself up in a doona and sweated it out all night! It was my worst night yet but I'm feeling about 30-40% better today. If we're up to it I think we will travel out to some Islands tomorrow, see how we go.

Hello Flight 8 on 2 Sabah!!

Our time in Brunei has been wonderful thanks to Pam, Chris and Eli! We have loved it here, now onto Sabah, maybe if we're lucky we might see an Orangatang :)

Roadblock

Today we were meant to catch a bus to Sabah ( Malasia ) but we didn't. Bec was feeling sick last night and without going into details, needed to go to the doctor today, she's getting better now but It was pretty bad, we have been calling the travel insurance, so that's new, Covermore was great, helpful, they even had a nurse call her back within 10 min! We're now flying to Sabah tomorrow night, we have accom booked there. Being sick away from home is never nice.

Sultans cool gifts and some Proboscis monkeys!

Today Chris and Pam took us to see the Sultans " cool stuff " museum. It had gold thrones, coronation stuff, tones of presents from other countries, gold carriges , guns etc, it was really interesting ,
Then later that day we went up river to see the Proboscis monkeys , they were cool, such a weird looking monkey, with a big droopy nose, apparently they are only here on Borneo!
Very cool
Then we went to dinner with my ol friend Phil to an amazing Chinese Restaraunt and then to a cool desert place. It was a great day!

Had a great time with Phil

Had a great catchup with Phil, my mate from High School, I feel so old that it was 15 years ago!! We went and had Murtabak and a weird winter melon and cheese drink! Going for dinner tomorrow night too

Brunei Here We Come

It is amazing being on this trip with Bec. We have just finished an amazing week in KL, and now we are off to Brunei!
We are hoping to be able to help in a school for disabled children with Pam. I'm also hoping to catch up with my old high school mate Phil. Hopefully we might check out the national park as well :) Apparently they have blocked off 90 % of it, so no humans can go there, pretty cool
this photo is of Bec n I at the KL monument.

7 th Flight :)

We are just about to take off on our 7th flight to Brunei. It's our first "Air Asia" flight, but we have heard a lot of good things about them. It's funny the number of different airlines we have flown on already in this trip. So far we have been on Jet Star, Scoot, Quatar, Lion Air/Wings, Sky, Tiger/Mandala and now Air Asia :). And we just booked our next one on Firefly! We're not trying to fly on everything, just picking the cheapest flights. (True Backpacker Style :) now off to the Island of Borneo! Woohoo :P

Conducting a PD

Bec and I got to help a local School for disabled kids by running a professional development for the teachers there. It was great, Bec n I were tag teaming, I think it was really helpful as some of the teachers only have a high school education :) it was really amazing

Enjoying KL

Last night we went up to the sky bar with Jem and Josh. Its on the 57th floor of a building that faces the Petronas Towers, it was soo cool, but funny story, we had to go home and change because we weren't up to dress code, ( even though we tried to be casually dressed) I had to put pants on and shoes , Birkenstocks didn't cut it. And Josh had to put shoes on too! Anyways it was worth it in the end. KL is a lot like Singapore, almost as good. Yesterday I got whistled by police twice. Once Bec and I where whistled for swing ing on a swing in a park! Then whistled for taking a photo of a sculpture in the middle of a lake. After this I did what Josh
Said he does, ignore it, so I did and nothing happened Lol. Apparently they don't like conflict;) we have come to nature park FRIM today and unfortunately it's raining ATM so we are trying to wait it out, half the time the rains pass over in about an hour? Well see... :)

Today we went to Kampong Water Village

Today we went to the largest water village in Asia. It was a great experience, kids were riding bikes around the rickedy wooden footpaths, we went to the little museum, it was really interesting. This afternoon, I'm catching up with an old friend Phil from high School this afternoon, haven't seen him for 15 years! He might show me a bit of his hometown :)

First 2 days in KL

Well we are recovering from being sick and it is relaxing! It is really nice here in KL, Jem and Josh are being really generous and caring to share their amazing home with us here, it is such an awesome pad! Yesterday we went to the fish market an we're going to the Vietnam embassy tomorrow, what should we do today? :)

ByeBye Indonesia!

We have been out of Australia for 4 weeks now! Amazing, we are just at the airport about to board a flight to KL,
Bring it on :)

Today was an awesome day!!

Started with Chicken Porridge for breakfast! Soo Indo!
Then off to an awesome country club for a swim, then checked out my mate Jose"s guns. After a marterbark and a snake skin fruit for afternoon tea we Then went out to dinner, had satay goat! It was soo good, Goat Ribs Rock, the goat satay sticks were good too. it was young goat, so we were technically eating a Kid for dinner ,Lol!

The Blessed Country

We have only started our journey but I am already filled with an amazing appreciation for Australia,, I feel soo blessed to have been born there. We seriously don't know how lucky we are.

Getting a 90 min full body massage with Bec for $7 each

Today is our last day in Cianjur and we have had a really good time here at the homestay, after the massage we are heading off to Jakarta which is about 2 hours away but takes 4-5 hours! So we are leaving after lunch, we have taken our first 2 scooter rides on the back of strangers ( Organised by the homestay) that has been interesting, but good I see what it is like weaving in and out is traffic here. ( scooters are Included in our insurance haha) but we don't want to use it of course. We would definitely recommend this region to anyone going to Indonesia.

Off to a School

We're going to a local school to help the students with their English, and hopefully introduce them to a sherrin footy Lol
Should be good :)

Got a Special Tour Today

Today we got a local tour of a rural community, met a family, saw Palm Sugar get made. Then we were offered a special add on to a waterfall that is not the normal tour one! So of course we were in, they had to take us down the back of the house ( so the rest of the other tour didn't see us and ask questions) I slipped over because it was about as steep as you can get and muddy, I cut open my hand on thorns on a trunk trying to save myself! After band aiding that up we went on this long journey into the jungle just Bec Me and our guide ( no English/ 15 years old) it is like a 10 cm wide goat track in the mud and really steep down, like we spent 20 min trying not to slip down the cliff. Then there was this one part where we had about a 4 metre drop onto rocks on the left, we had to step on rocks for about 3 meters with only a dirt wall on our right! Then we saw this awesome waterfall! About 50 meters up. Thend a giant poisonous spider, then the most amazing rice paddy valley we have ever seen, it was about 3 valleys one after the other. What a day! This is what it's about.

On the train again...

Well we have said farewell to Yog, now onto Cianjur, a small town/ city for a real Indonesian family homestay. We will be living in a bamboo hut ( I think) actually living with a family. It is going to be wild. We are there for 3 nights then off to Jakarta for 4 nights, for our last stop in Indo. I had a funny "Metamucil" explosion, where it exploded in my pack and Bec was amazing about it, she discovered it and started cleaning stuff about 10 minutes
Before I saw it, it took us a good hour to clean it up. It's one of those funny NOW moments :) and cos I was too rough with the DVD player, it's now stuffed, so we will look for a new one in Jakarta.
We are both glad the air con works on this train. :) Got Bec a kinder "Joy" this morning, a weird Indo version of kinder surprise lol

Skyfall

Tonight we went to the ambrosia mall , a big Indo shopping centre, we thought we had earnt a bit of home time. So off to the movies . We went to Pizza Hut for dinner, it was actually pretty good, not cheap though, western prices but since I saved us $39 last night with my $1 haircut I think we're still ahead! Lol

Then we went to the movies, saw the New James bond, it was great. One interesting thing that we worked out quick though is that Indonesians love to talk the way through the whole movie and play on their blackberrys too! Random? The highlight for me was seeing a Mario Kart arcade machine out the front!

A sign of relaxation!

I'm very excited about something in this photo! Can you tell what it is? Lol

A big day

Thankyou to anyone that has been praying for us (for safety/health/adjusting to Asia etc) we have needed it, traveling as a backpacker is very different to having a 4 star hotel, 10 night Asian holiday. We have had 2 1/2 weeks of steep adjustment to expectations and being each others best friend and better half has never been soo important. But we are surviving and having some great experiences together!

We got up at 4 am again today for our tour, man everything here seems to have to be seen at sunrise!! I admit that sunrise is the best time as it is cooler and looks nice with often a red or yellow sunrise in the sky.
Getting some amazing photos too, so we will have to get some blank disks an start burning them off and posting them home.
Going out for dinner with Jørgen and Guli, should be good :)

P.s this is Bec with an Asian sized Cornetto! Lol

Follow our instagram world map!

We just set up our instagram world map, pretty cool it uploads our instagram pics to where it was taken in the world, our name on instagram is easy it s
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Saw some cool 800 ad buildings today, very cool ( not really it was sweltering hot but amazing, jumped strait in the pool when we got back!! :)

Not all fun n games

Ok well this morning I kinda had a meltdown! We spent all day yesterday on bus's n trains ( trains were good!) but so we got to Yogyakarta at 9 pm and tried to find a backpackers, it was awful , we tried about 4 and they were all full, then we went to another one that was like the one out of the movie The Beach" dirty and cockroachy literally on our wall! Then it started pouring outside and so we said stuff it and booked in with our new Norwegian friends Yorgen and Guli.
I am a bit sick in the stomach from some random thing I ate, but I can handle that, but the toilet flush didn't work, I'll let u fill in the gaps, but we had to fill bucket etc... Bec is also not fewling too crash hot, :( So We were feeling a bit homesick this morning but the awesome thing is that it passed because we have each other and prayed about it. It's funny how when your comfort levels are really challenged you realize how reliant you become in your cushy life style. It was a big wake up call. We now have found a nice cheap $14 a night hotel with a pool and waterfall into the pool. It dosnt have air con so we will see how that goes, and no hot water but it's soo hot here you don't really need it, but the main thing is that we have found a clean safe peacefully place to crash for the next 4 days :)

1 big thing we have learnt is to try to avoid getting to your destination in the dark, we have done it twice now and it always makes the place look more dodgy!

Off to Borrie badur tomorrow!

A rough night !