Borneo Adventure

The Austronesian language family covers half the planet so who are Austronesians, where do they live and where do they come from?

UNESCO-listed, World Heritage Gunung Mulu National Park is located in Malaysia’s Sarawak State on the island of Borneo

Going off-the-beaten-track half way round the World with people you don’t know, food you’ve never tried before and what appear to be extreme weather conditions. What can possibly go wrong?

A few tips on how to get the best out of your small group tour to Southeast Asia

This World Heritage-listed national park in Malaysia’s Sabah State features on our small group and family tours to Borneo

The picturesque Kinabatangan River, located in Malaysia’s Sabah State on the island of Borneo, is home to a remarkable range of wildlife

Malaysian street food Sampling local street food has become an essential element of overseas travel and indeed offering street food and street food tours is increasingly seen as an important draw for foreign visitors. A brief scan of any of the myriad ‘best street food’ kind of articles includes entries from right across the World with cities as diverse as…

Where to see orangutans in Sabah The large, equatorial island of Borneo comprises the two Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak – covering the far north and northwest respectively – and the Indonesian region of Kalimantan, by far the largest portion of the island.  Our where to see orangutans in Sabah post, however, is therefore restricted to the former of…

What to see and do in Sarawak Although official Tourism Malaysia statistics claim more visitors to Sarawak than Sabah, we suspect this is inflated by domestic tourists as well as visitors from neighbouring Kalimantan since, in our experience of running Borneo tours, Sabah clearly proves the more popular of the two among Western travellers. Sabah has well-known Kinabatangan, Danum Valley,…

Malaysia World Heritage – Cultural Sites With just 2 cultural and 2 natural sites inscribed on UNESCO’s Malaysia World Heritage Sites list this section is going to be brief. Now, at first glance on a map, the little blob tagged onto the bottom of the Thai-Malay Peninsula does appear quite small, however, once you’ve added Borneo’s states of Sabah and…

Sandakan to Kota Kinabalu A flight from north Sabah’s Sandakan to Kota Kinabalu Town on Borneo’s west coast was an often scenic but otherwise unremarkable flight, although it was reassuring to fly over some still extensive forest cover. Alas, from ground level – especially aside highways – it can seem that the dreaded oil palm plantations stretch all the way…

Malaysia UNESCO Sites Malaysia UNESCO sites currently include 2 cultural sites in the Peninsular and a national park each in Borneo’s Sabah and Sarawak States. A further 2 candidates in the tentative section add a second national park in Sarawak, plus the famous Taman Negara in West Malaysia. Considering the country’s rich cultural heritage and stunning landscapes, that’s a relatively…