Kuching

So we have based ourselves in Kuching for 3 days so see the sights, smells and sounds Sarawak has to offer. Its been pretty amazing here, we have experienced so much in these few days from amazing wildlife to very dodgy hostels, but all worth it and worth another story. I'll tell you more about the wildlife we say in Semengogh and Bako later so that is all from Kuching, the city of Cats.

Sibu

So Just spent a night in Sibu as we wanted to head down to Kuching. It was good fun for what it was and we enjoyed walking throught he market and trying different types of Malay / Chinese food available. We met this guy at on stall who happened to be a travel agent. He said it was the second time in 20 years that he had met a South African. Neizz.

The evening ended off with us spending lying on the bed in our hotel room watching scary movie 4. Was worth a giggle. Turned the lights off pretty early as we had to be up around 6ish to catch the ferry to Kuching. Ferry trip was very interesting as we went through the river we saw all the logging companies along the baks and realised how much of the forest they cut down every day. Unbelievable...

The trip took us 4.5 hours but it was good fun, i sat out on the deck reading my book my wife bought for me from Starbucks on this child soldier. Gripping read, did 98 pages. The ferry ended up taking us out to sea which i did not know about until i saw the map when we came back, scary sheeaaat. the funniest thing is that when we were the furthest away from anywhere i saw these rickity wooden fishing boats.... thats pretty hardore.

Oh yes, i forgot to tell you at Sibu airport i ate cattle lungs. Nice!!! Tastes good, just don't look at it

Tioman Island

Off to Borneo in a couple mins to see the Orangutans and i'm sure it'll be as amazing as the last stop. We spent 4 nights at Salang Sayang resoirt on Tioman island and wow what a pleasure. It was the most beautiful idyllic place i have ever been to and yould not hesitate to recommend it to anyone. Sadly my camera has packed up so i cannot show you any photos right now but take my word for it.

The island it covered by these massive lizards (not Komodos) and they swim up and down the river looking for food. Wow!!

We went fishing every day for dinner in our kayak with hand line. Celia, Tim and I all caught good sized fish which we'd bring back tocthe resort and they would prepare for us. tim being the chef he is made a fich curry for the restaurant to sell last night and it was amezing.

The resort found this orphaned monkey about a month ago and now they look after 'King' like he is one of their own. The cutest thing you have ever seen. It even took a lking to Celia, pooin and weeing on her several times. Lucky girl.

Anyway i have to go check in now.

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Mad shopping

So we have just wrapped up the fist part of our tour. 3 days in the lovely Singapore. Fortunately Carin hooked us up with a good friend of hers - Mr Tim Ross-Watson. He has showed us around and we have loved every minute.

Singapore has so much more to offer than the shopping but every day we managed to end up back on Orchard St buying something at one of the huuuuggeee shopping centres. Eastgate what...

Night Safari was superb, sadly there is no flash photography allowed so not many pics but i managed to sneak a great one of an owl (above right) which pleaseed me immensly.

Bought a new digital slr cause it was so cheap and i would have regretted not buying it. Still in th box after 2 days cause i still love my current camera so much.

Eaten the best food her and dirt cheap too. The singapore chilli crab is as good as they make out in the movies and the different types of fruit are astounding as well as delicious.

We eventually booked the next part of our trip and are off to Tioman island on the east coast of malaysia, that leaves in 40 minites at 5:30 in the morining. Have had no sleep tonight, just been sitting round the pool with Timand Celia thinking about my new found appreciation for Sapporro beer.

We went to snow city today thinking to was somewhere to go ice skating and cool down from the 40+ deg heat but it turned out to be an indoor snow slope. Today was sadly tubing day so we slid down the slope on tubes. So much fun!!!!

All the best till the next installment

What a jol

I heard it being described as the wedding of the century, some went as far as the wedding of the millenium but however you want to describe it, it was a day to be remebered by all for the beautiful bride, good looking groom, great weather, michelin star food, and cold cold beers.

Thank you to all that came along and made the day so special, you have no idea what it means to us. Sitting here in an internet cafe in Singapore we are about to embark on another huge adventure, as the Carpenters once sang 'We've only just begun'.

As they say in Singapore 'Good Bye'

Brighton rocks

Went down to Brighton yesterday. What an amazing day. The place has so much to offer in terms of eating out, bars, etc. The beach sadly has nothing on the Cape coast, but it beats a day in London.

We ended up having dinner in one of the better tapas bars i have been to outside of Spain and we clearly ordered too much but I finished all of mine because thats just what you do. We took some pics, so check them out on the tour gallery.

Dieter