Brunei

And tomorrow we are taking the ferry from Labuan (where we are now) to Brunei.
On 15.07 its the Sultan's birthday so we are expecting to get an invitation for the party :)

Sipadan and Mabul

After the jungle we headed towards the sea again, passing Sandakan and Semporna, to the island of Mabul, the island itself is nothing special but gives a great insight into water village-fishermen life. The amazing thing was diving in Sipadan, one of the top five diving locations in the world where even Jacques Cousteau was amazed. It was a truly spectacular experience with thousands of fish, sharks, barracudas, beautiful corals and tens of turtles swimming around us. Unfortunately no underwater picture capabilities yet...

A water village on Mabul

Kids fishing

and developing innovative means of transport

Beware of the smorkels!!!

and Yva posing as usual ;) these chairs were fantastic btw, you can always learn new things on every new beach!

Pictures of the days we pent in the Borneo jungle along the Kinabatangan river

Mist over the Kinabatangan river, the second longest river in Borneo

This is more close to the actual colours

Our leader J, alias Sandokan, the tiger of Malaysia :)

J playing with a scorpion during the walk in the night through the jungle

Are we packed well enough? Will it save us from the leeches?!?!?!....

Proboscis monkeys, kind of ugly but males have a long nose, a sign of masculinity and walk around with constant erection...

Jungle fruits ;)

Strange animal

Jungle group trek

Check out the boots, they should call these treks mud treks :)

Borneo

We incidentally ended up on Borneo after our visa for the Philippines ran out too quickly! We are having great fun with all kinds of strange animals around here in the jungle of the world :) Have to run now as we are off to a special trek along the Kinabatangan river going to see more funny animals and not be eaten by them ;)

Baby Orangutan

Eating is fun

So is stretching

It really happened, drinking caipirinhas with Sladja in Manila!!!

Some wildlife pictures

First picture of a cousin of Nemo

A school of baracudas

and Jackfish

and two distressed divers!