The Night Before

This is the holiday that has been wished for many years, been a year in waiting and tomorrow we embark on a very different type of vacation than we have been used to. Gone, for the most part are the sun loungers and flip-flops, to be replaced by heavy walking boots and sweaty tee-shirts. This is going to be Borneo and the hope that we will be able to see orang-utans in their natural surrounds. There are no guarantees, but we travel in hope. Perhaps the only guarantee is that it will be wet, enter a rainforest and it will rain. So we leave Heathrow tomorrow with the expectation that it will rain 24 hours a day, every day and that for all this we will not even see a orang-utan in the wild, after this everything is a bonus.

We have chosen Audley as our tour operator. So far, they have have been thoroughly professional and we hope that when we return to the UK we will be recommending them to all our friends that wish for a similar experience.

I'm not expecting a great deal of internet access, so this blog will not be updated on a daily basis, but more of a place where friends will be able to review our trip and view our pictures without us boring them silly.

First stop, Kuala Lumpur.