We are having dinner after visiting the Deer Cave - a 3 km walk each way. It is fantastic!! One of the biggest caves in the world. Truly awe inspiring. It's enormous. Then afterwards we watched the 2 million bats leave the cave at sunset creating massive spirals and snakes in the sky. Absolutely amazing!!!! Since Wed we have been very adventurous. We were driven by 4wd to the middle of no where and stayed in a 270 m long longhouse, with 30 families. Next day we spent 3 hours in narrow long boats heading up the river to the start of the headhunters trail then walked 11 km in the pouring rain (but it was great rainforest. Lots of big trees). We took nearly 5 hours, carrying all our stuff. We stayed in a camp with dorms, padded mats, an eating shelter and proper toilets and showers. Luxury. Called Camp 5. The next day we walked 9 km and more long boats took us to the wind cave and Clearwater cave which were great. We had a swim in this beautiful natural pool too. Then the boats took us the the NP headquarters where we are staying for 3 nights in a hostel. We've now completed all our trekking with our packs and the rest of the trip looks pretty cruisy. Everyone is in good spirits!!! Tomorrow we ate doing a sky walk over the jungle canopy and having a relaxing day. Then the next day we fly to miri.

We are at gunung mulu national park - World heritage listed! It's a great place. We are staying in a hostel below the owners House. It's comfortable.

We arrived in Limbang today. We traveled all day. We left Kota Kinabalu at 8am. Crossing the border into the State of Sarawak, then into Brunei and out again took ages, Soooo much getting off and on the bus for immigration procedures. We spent about an hour (and $5 each) getting a transit visa for Brunei - the transiting took about 20 minutes in the bus!!! Limbang is a small town on a river - it's an interesting place. We're staying at the River View Inn - look it up on facebook. It's pretty good.
Yesterday we had a slack day in KK.

Yesterday we visited the MarI Mari Cultural centre. There were traditional buildings for all the main traditional ethnic groups in Borneo and we got a good introduction to the culture and customs of each. The Head hunter tribes were particularly interesting. Good to get a shot with a blow pipe! Great lunch too. Today we went snorkeling at a local tropical Island. It was great. Lots of fish and pretty good coal. So much fun! We had a morning session and an arvo session. So plenty of snorkeling. When we got back we bought Bus tickets for Limbang on Dec 8 and accommodation and did some other planning for our trek into Gunung Mulu national park - a world heritage area.

We are back in Kota Kinabalu in the Victoria Hotel. We've just been organizing the next part of our travels.

It's been an amazing week here in Borneo, white water rafting, zip wire-ring  and high ropes have been my high lights. I am also very proud of the team for making it through the Crocker Range. BRING ON THE NEXT TREK! -Ollie

We've been busy over here, we had our first trek in the Crocker Ranges, some R&R at the Adventure Centre and finishing our project of making the foundation of a church kitchen at Tampat Do Aman. It feels like our trip is nearly over even though we aren't even halfway, it's great here but i'm starting to miss home a bit. -Viv

Today was a day of immersion in the local environment and community. In the morning our host Howard (who trains the military in jungle survival} took us on a tour of his land showing us all the medicinal and edible plants he had planted. Howard is trying to be ecologically responsible on his land and in his business as well as support the local Rungus people - he is British but married to a Rungus woman. The work he has done and continues to do is amazing. He is a very impressive man. In the afternoon we ran some games at the local church fete - the same church where we built the slab. Once again the local kids had a great time. "Handball the footy through Rudolph's nose" was particularly popular as was "Pin the beard on Santa" - both games our crew made. Then we did our daily walk to the beach for our swim and dinner - for the last time at The Tip Of Borneo. We have very much enjoyed our time here and made a good contribution plus learnt lots.