Although it looks like a blip on the map of Borneo, Brunei is not as tiny as you might think. At over 2,000 square miles, it doesn’t even make top 15 of the world’s smallest countries. Nevertheless, Rob and I thought it was one country we could miss. It’s surrounded on three sides by Sarawak, […]
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Jungle Durians in Sipitang, Sabah
At last, at last, durians are beginning to fall in Borneo. The season, a few weeks later than usual, has started! Sipitang is a small town on the southeastern coast of Sabah, very close to the border of Sarawak and Brunei. Most tourists pass through Sipitang on their way to Long Pasia, a village in […]
Sandakan Town Durian and a River Trip
This blog post has been a long time in coming! We didn’t mean to leave you all in the dark. For awhile, it seemed that we had nothing interesting to write about, and then we were too busy! We landed in Sabah, Borneo, to discover that durian season had not started yet! Oh noes! Erratic […]
Touchdown in Borneo
The moment has finally arrived – Rob and I are in Borneo. When I first wrote the word Borneo on our travel itinerary waaay back last November, a little shiver ran up my spine. I’d heard of Borneo, in the way I’d heard of Pangaea and Middle Earth – exotic and very far away in […]
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