Borneo, sounds proud and wild. But our trip was only in developed part of the island (Malaysia and Brunei). Cities were clean, transport organized, tourist attractions highly commercialized, a lot of jungle grubbed out for palm oil plantation. Just civilization. Due to lack of time we didn’t get to unbeaten routes, and that was a mistake. I am sure this  is a great wild area to explore the unknown and virgin jungle - but it need more time and money. Overall, we liked, but this is mainly due to a very fair and friendly attitude of the locals.

However, as a tourist I won’t come back here.

Route: (Sarawak) Kuching - Kapit - Miri - Gunung Mulu NP
(Brunei) Bandar Seri Begawan
(Sabah) Pulau Labuan - Sepilok - Mt. Kinabalu NP - Kota Kinabalu

Period: 26 March - 4 April 2009 (10 days)

Team: with Ewelina

Visa: most nationalites don’t need. Between Sabah and Sarawak there is the passport control.

How to get there: we stopped on the way while returning from Australia to Poland. We purchased all the airline tickets via the Internet, this is the final price including airport taxes and bank fees:

Qantas: Sydney - Perth 91€

Tiger: Perth - Singapore 106€; Singapore - Kuching 35€; Kota Kinabalu - Singapore 42€; Singapore - Bangkok 35€

LTU/Airberlin booked via expedia: Bangkok - Dusseldorf 395€

Wizzair: Cologne - Katowice 64 €