Malaysia and Borneo vacation, 2003

Links

• Our photo album of the holiday
• Our photo album of the Scrabble and KL
• Borneo Adventure - our principal travel experts for Borneo
• SI Tours - our travel experts in Sabah, Borneo
• Freme Travel - our travel experts in Brunei
• Travel2 - a UK firm that only deals with travel agents (rather than direct) but their brochure was excellent and provided the basis for our vacation
• Travel advice from the Foreign Office
• Our previous and future holidays

The Holiday

17/10 Fly to Kuala Lumpur for the 7th World Scrabble Championships

18/10 Arrive KL and stay at the Corus Hotel

Corus Hotel

19/10 Opening banquet

20/10 City tour and Draw

21/10 Scrabble - Day 1

22/10 Scrabble - Day 2

23/10 Scrabble - Day 3

24/10 Scrabble - Final

25/10 Fly to Kuching, Borneo

Kuching Hilton

26/10 Bako National Park

monkeys, monitor lizards, more monkeys, wild boars

Fly to Miri

27/10 Fly to Mulu

Royal Mulu Resort

Rain forest, make friends with 2 million bats in their cave

28/10 Caves without bats, rain forest, orchids

29/10 Fly to Miri at 1005

Edible markets, oil well, rain forest

Fly to Kota Kinabalu

Shangri La's Tanjung Aru

30/10 Kinabalu Park

31/10 Fly to Sandakan

turtle playtime

Selingan Turtle Island

1/11 Gomantong Caves

Swiflets and their edible nests ("Bird's Nest" soup)

River cruise, more monkeys, birds

Overnight at Sukau Lodge

2/11 Overland to Sepilok Orang-Utan Sanctuary for feeding time

Fly back to Kota Kinabalu and stay at Shangri La's Tanjung Aru again

3/11 Fly to Brunei

Holiday Lodge

4/11 Water Village trip

5/11 Belalong National Park

This page was last updated on September 4, 2005

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