Watts down in Borneo?
A visit to Borneo is like stepping through the screen into 'Planet Earth' or plunging in to 'the Blue Planet'. At times you almost expect to hear David Attenborough's dulcet tones introducing the arrival of the orange haired 'forest man', talking us through the mating ritual of the promiscuous proboscis monkey or urging us to 'act now' on the blatant issues of expanding palm oil plantations and the blanket of plastic suffocating our oceans. Borneo is an island in South East Asia; it is part Malaysian, part Indonesian and partly home to the small nation of Brunei. Libby and I recently spent an action packed and nature filled two and a half weeks travelling around Sabah, the Malaysian section at the very north of Borneo; I will try here to give you a taster of what we got up to. Come the 3rd July, the day had finally come, we were set to depart from Heathrow for our 13-hour flight to Singapore then 2.5-hour hop across to Kota Kinabalu in...