I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo.

Amateur Traveler episode 771. Today the amateur traveler talks about beaches and

turtles, waterfalls and sun bears, orangutangs and and Probuscus monkeys as we go to Saba in Malaysia.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's talk about

Saba on the island of Borneo. I'd like to welcome to the show Howard Stanton who is coming to us from

Borneo more specifically from the region of Sabah and Howard is the owner of

an Echo Adventure resort in the Howard, welcome to the show.

Thank you very much. Thank you for having me. I hope I can enlighten your

listeners to the ideas of coming to Sabah.

Well, I asked around and said I was looking for people to talk about coming to Borneo, to the various regions of Borneo, we can get into that there's more than one.

And I was told Howard you were the guy, so.

Yeah, okay, great. I hope to enlighten people and

encourage people to come because Borneo is a fantastic place absolutely

fantastic place to come well and when we talk about Borneo and they're being different regions, so tell us a little more what is Saba versus the rest of Borneo, for instance?

So Borneo, third largest island in the world, is actually made up of three different sort of countries I suppose

two-thirds of it is the Indonesian side Indonesian borneo and that's like the bottom two-thirds then

there's Brunei the sultan of Brunei, and then Malaysia has two

states on Borneo, one is called Sarawak and then the other one is Sabah and that's where I live.

I live in Sabah

Sabah is roughly the size of the UK. I didn't realize it was that big okay or that

the UK was that small I guess there's two ways of looking at that but

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