Driving across Borneo to Sipadan | Travel & Scuba Ep 285
January 16, 2022 by followtheboat | Language: EN Play Time: 00:15:27 | SAILING YOUTUBERS
Fed up with being dicked around by hotels…
With Malaysia’s state borders and Sabah’s district borders open again, we set off with joyful hearts on a road trip across Borneo. But finding hotels that were ready for us or staff who gave a toss turned out to be less than easy. Until we reached our destination. Could this be paradise?
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00:00 Intro “Being dicked around”
00:16 Hello 2022
01:06 Freedom to travel in Borneo
02:04 Why a 2-day road trip?
02:55 Driving across Sabah
03:44 Hotel fail #1 Sepilok
05:37 Hotel fail #2 Semporna
06:34 Losing the will to live
07:21 Not in the best of moods
08:31 Arrival in Kapalai Sipadan Dive Resort
09:23 First dive at Kapalai house reef
10:29 Followtheboat video podcast
11:22 Kapalai-Sipadan # 1 dive destination!
13:38 We are the ONLY guests in paradise!
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Liz and Jamie
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We've been blogging, vlogging and podcasting about living on our boat since 2005. If you love travel, sailing, fishing, diving and photography this might be the channel for you... Each week we post a 15-20 minute snapshot of what we did. It might cover anything from sailing, travelling, meeting people, fishing, cooking, shopping in exotic markets or hanging out on a tropical beach, to boat maintenance (there's a lot of that when you live on a boat) and tackling challenges or bureaucratic conundrums. There's also a fair bit of photography and diving. Even though the world continues to throw spanners at us, we love being perpetual travellers. And we've never regretted making the big leap into this alternative lifestyle for even a nanosecond. If we make you laugh or inspire you, then these videos haven't been a total waste of time. Pop round to the pub and share a drink with us... https://followtheboat.com/pub/ Jamie and Liz xx
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