My promise to myself that i would updated more often fell flat on its face so here i am writing essays again. I keep telling myself its good practice for uni in spetember.... *massive geek*
So after a 7 hour bus ride I arrived in Semporna, The town were we would be based to do our diving, and within 10 minutes had fallen down a meter gutter at the side of the road and inflicted upon myself a 4 inch gash, though who know how clumsy i am at least try and be sympathetic! So i trail into the hostel with blood seeping down my leg and meet back up with bill as he went jungle trekking for a day or two and i didn't fancy being t6hat far away from civilization or somewhere that sold alcohol. The islands round Ssemprona as supposedly some of the best dive sites in the world so i feel that now iv got my license i might avoid diving in the places like the north sea as it might be a tad dissappoitning. Some of the islands were liek islands out of films that you might get shipwrecked on, imagine an tiny sandy island with just palm trees on and you've the image spot on. So the diving course went on for threes day and then we did another days diving after. In those days we were diving wiht 6ft turtle and schools of fish that is they swam above you the completely blocked out the light, it was pretty unreal! The nights back in Smeporna were pretty lame as the town itself see no benefit of the huge amount of diving tourism that runs through it it goes straight into the pockets of the collect few who own resorts there. Our nights were spent making beer runs to the other side of town to the place where you could get the best beer deals, a small local chinese restaurant ( 3 beers of 13 Ringgit , a bargin right!?)
So we learnt to dive and the end of our diving coincided with the end of our time in Borneo, so we jumped on a bus back to the capital with a day to spare for a flight to Australia. The 10 Hour bus journey proved to be under arctic conditions and despite our pleas to turn the heat up, the air con Nazi that they were refused due to the 'fact' the windows would fog up ( i was surprised they hadn't frozen over). After 3 hours we stopped and i retrieved 3 t-shirts, a vest and another pair of trousers to fight the artic conditions! ( in no way is this paragraph over dramatic!)
Once we arrived back in the captial, Kota Kinabalu, we carried our frost bitten selves to a hostel and indulged in a western treat to ourselves, a trip to the cinema! Do not go see rise of the planet of the apes and thats all ill say on the matter! We had our last meal in asia night leaving me unsure of how i'd cope with out noodles after becoming dependent on them after 7 weeks of eating them everyday, i was not looking forward to weening myself off them...
Leaving for Aus meant a stopover in our old friend Singapore Airport ( my love for this airport i can not express!) which meant the usual in an airpoirt - A trip round the butterfly Sanctuary and a free film at the cinema!
So after a 7 hour bus ride I arrived in Semporna, The town were we would be based to do our diving, and within 10 minutes had fallen down a meter gutter at the side of the road and inflicted upon myself a 4 inch gash, though who know how clumsy i am at least try and be sympathetic! So i trail into the hostel with blood seeping down my leg and meet back up with bill as he went jungle trekking for a day or two and i didn't fancy being t6hat far away from civilization or somewhere that sold alcohol. The islands round Ssemprona as supposedly some of the best dive sites in the world so i feel that now iv got my license i might avoid diving in the places like the north sea as it might be a tad dissappoitning. Some of the islands were liek islands out of films that you might get shipwrecked on, imagine an tiny sandy island with just palm trees on and you've the image spot on. So the diving course went on for threes day and then we did another days diving after. In those days we were diving wiht 6ft turtle and schools of fish that is they swam above you the completely blocked out the light, it was pretty unreal! The nights back in Smeporna were pretty lame as the town itself see no benefit of the huge amount of diving tourism that runs through it it goes straight into the pockets of the collect few who own resorts there. Our nights were spent making beer runs to the other side of town to the place where you could get the best beer deals, a small local chinese restaurant ( 3 beers of 13 Ringgit , a bargin right!?)
So we learnt to dive and the end of our diving coincided with the end of our time in Borneo, so we jumped on a bus back to the capital with a day to spare for a flight to Australia. The 10 Hour bus journey proved to be under arctic conditions and despite our pleas to turn the heat up, the air con Nazi that they were refused due to the 'fact' the windows would fog up ( i was surprised they hadn't frozen over). After 3 hours we stopped and i retrieved 3 t-shirts, a vest and another pair of trousers to fight the artic conditions! ( in no way is this paragraph over dramatic!)
Once we arrived back in the captial, Kota Kinabalu, we carried our frost bitten selves to a hostel and indulged in a western treat to ourselves, a trip to the cinema! Do not go see rise of the planet of the apes and thats all ill say on the matter! We had our last meal in asia night leaving me unsure of how i'd cope with out noodles after becoming dependent on them after 7 weeks of eating them everyday, i was not looking forward to weening myself off them...
Leaving for Aus meant a stopover in our old friend Singapore Airport ( my love for this airport i can not express!) which meant the usual in an airpoirt - A trip round the butterfly Sanctuary and a free film at the cinema!
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