Borneo Blog!

Finally vacation time! Not necessarily the most relaxing vacation, but it has been an amazing journey through the jungles of Borneo! We have been seriously packing in the fun!

We left Dubai on the 26^th after Christmas. We took some clients out kayaking and spent the day prepping for our departure… but somehow Santa found his way to Dibba, Oman!

 

Paul (our boss) drove Courtney and I to the Dubai Airport where we hung out until our flight to Doha left. I had a super bad cold and accidently infected Courtney so we were both feeling exhausted and under the weather. We quickly arrived in Doha and boarded a flight to Kuala Lumpur, which was about 7 hours. Qatar Airways took good care of us, but we both were so congested and exhausted, so it was a flight filled with headaches, sniffling and terrible sleep. After we arrived in Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia, we abandoned our plans to explore the city, found a nice little carpeted area and crashed for about 4 hours. We needed it bad! Sleeping in random places has become a pattern on this trip… here is poor sick Courtney passed our in the KL Airport.

After our nap/coma, we boarded a surprisingly nice flight from KL, Peninsula Malaysia to Kota Kinabalu (KK), Borneo, Malaysia. If felt so nice to have finally arrived at our final destination. So we booked it to our hostel (Lavender Lodge), took a long hot shower and crashed. After a good nights sleep, I was finally feeling 100% better, but poor Court was still really sick. We spent the day in KK picking up some odds and ends for our trip, prepping for Mt. Kinabalu, and getting medications for Courtney. She spent the afternoon sleeping and I enjoyed an awesome walk around the city, a coffee at Starbucks and checked out the local wet market.

 

Veggies!

Fish Market!

Chicken out for sale… not sanitary??

Cute Malay Kids!

I returned to find Court awake and alive, so we both headed back to the wet market for dinner. It was such an incredible place! We basically just got a smorgasbord of local food, including chicken satay, fried noodles, a watermelon shake, murtabak and dumplings steamed in banana leaves (banana, coconut and tapioca). It was such a great dinner and a perfect start to our trip.