Sabah Road Trip Reflections, Part 2 – Driving

Taking a road tripA long, lonely roadA metaphor for life Go at your own paceLet others overtakeNo need to keep pace They are on their own journeyYou are on your own journeyYou are not going to their destinationThey are not going to yours Go at your own paceAccording to your own capability The journey is […]

Sabah Road Trip Reflections, Part 1 – Food

While we drove to Sandakan, we kept seeing advertisements for KFC’s Sawadee Crunch. Baby Crab insisted that at some point during our trip, we had to go eat it. So that night, we decided that we would eat the Sawadee Crunch. It’s basically your usual KFC chicken with a very spicy batter. It’s so spicy […]

Sabah Road Trip Day 8 – Eating with the Hakka

We left the Tip of Borneo on Day 7 after getting throughly drenched in the rain. Our next stop was supposed to have been Kudat, which was half an hour drive away, but we never made it there. Baby Crab was hungry, so Baby Tilapia took to Google Maps to find a place in Kudat […]

Sabah Road Trip Day 7 – The Tip of Borneo

It was a cold, cloudy, and rainy day. We woke up early, before the rain came, and decided to use the dustbin of the hotel room as a makeshift pail. Our car had gone through a lot the previous 6 days, so we decided to give it a wash. After its shower, we set off […]

Sabah Road Trip Day 6 – The Road To Keningau

Today we started the most worrying leg of our road trip – the road from Tawau to Keningau. Why is it worrying? Firstly, there are no petrol stations along the 340km route. So if you ever drive this road, be sure to fill up a full tank first at your starting point. We were pleasantly […]

Sabah Road Trip Day 5 – Tawau

We left Semporna with a sunburn, and began our short drive to Tawau. It was a largely uneventful day with one exception. Upon reaching Tawau, we made a courtesy visit to the Cocoa Museum. We found it, well, like the types of places you go when you’re on a tour. That is, not our cup […]

Sabah Road Trip Day 4, Part 2 – Semporna

We left Gomantong Caves at about 3.30pm. This was worrying because it was a 3-4 hour drive to Semporna. As sunset was at 5.47pm that day, and the sky gets dark very quickly, this meant that we were going to have to drive to Semporna in the dark. We got there fine, but hungry. We […]

Sabah Road Trip Day 4, Part 1 – Gomantong Caves

Today we were supposed to drive from Sandakan to Semporna. This is the dangerous route that Joseph told us about. A lot happened today, so I’m going to break up today’s experience into two posts. Our first challenge of the day was finding a petrol station for the car. This car drinks petrol like water, […]