Borneo Holidays  - Packing List

Essential Clothes:     

Shorts (2); Long slacks/trousers; Long sleeve blouse/t-shirt; Flip-flops ("thongs") or sandals; Thin jersey/jacket; T-shirts (4); Sarongs for beach and sleeping. 

Try to bring only a small hold-all, suitcase or rucksack; inland flights only allow 10 kgs of baggage anyway. If you need extra (warm) clothes for climbing Mt Kinabalu, these can be left separately at your accommodation base.

You can buy most essentials here, very cheaply, if you do forget something!

Other Items

Torch; Aspirin; Camera; Driving Licence; Passport; Cash – about £10 per day minimum.

For the long flight:-

Earplugs (from Boots the Chemist) (soft foam type, to cut down noise fatigue); A very small face towel; Reading matter; Half a dozen sleeping pills (Temazapam or similar from G.P. – for jet lag & the highly strung!)

Please let us know if:

1)      You have any allergies/special foods/medication

2)      You are over 6ft tall or weigh over 100 kgs!

3)      You have other than British passports

4)      Any other special requirement

Recommended Reading

                (Title                      -   Author                   -            Reference)

Into The Heart of Borneo – Redmond O’Hanlon            ISBN 0-14-007397-3

Maugham’s Borneo Stories – Somerset Maugham         ISBN 9971-64-166-6

Stranger in the Forest – Eric Hansen                               ISBN 0-349-10093-4

The Best of Borneo Travel – Victor T. King                   ISBN 0-19-588603-8

My Life in Sarawak - Brooke                                           ISBN 0-19-582663-9

Queen of the Headhunters – Brooke                                ISBN0-19-588960-6

The White Rajahs of Sarawak – Payne                          ISBN 0-19-582687-6

Malaysia, Singapore & Brunei – A Short History of       ISBN9971-947-06-4

The Lands of Charm and Cruelty – Stan Sesser           ISBN 0-330-33387-9

Kalimantaan - Godshalk                                                   ISBN 0-316-64651-2

All the above books are kept in our Library at the Lodge or can be ordered easily using the ISBN number.