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No gas, no food, no towns, no hotels. Pure jungle.

It’s one of the most remote roads on the island of Borneo, through one of the densest and oldest rainforests on earth. So of course we wanted to ride through this interior road into the heart of Sabah, Malaysia, but there were a few major problems with this trip.

The first is that there are very few amenities on the road. Without camping gear and no hotels along the way, we simply have to make it to the other side or we’ll be stuck in the jungle at night.

Also, there are no gas stations. So we planned on packing extra gasoline in plastic 2 liter water bottles strapped to our KTM 250 Adventure motorcycle. But will it be enough?

And the final problem is that I have a horrible fever, and because of a time constraint on the rental motorcycle, we HAVE TO go to today.

I’m beginning to wonder if this was such a good idea…

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They call them “water villages” or “kampung air” in Malay, but I call them “fantasy floating villages” because they remind me of fantastical cultures of people that live completely off of the ocean. But these people are real, and there’s more than 50,000 of them in Malaysia, with an estimated 10,000 water houses built on stilts over the water.

So of course, while we rode across the island of Borneo on our KTM 250 Adventure motorcycle, we had to check one out, and see how the people there actually live. And it’s like stepping into a video game world that’s straight out of someone’s imagination…

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“Avoid ALL unnecessary travel to Semporna, Malaysia,” states the UK travel warning. Pirates, kidnappings, beheadings of the tourists… unfortunately, these are the things that Semporna is infamous for. And yet, thousands of tourists descend up its streets, and travel to the shores of its islands every year to experience the magical sights that make Semporna what it is.

So of course Tim and I wanted to see what was actually going on here, and to see if we could answer the question, “Is Semporna, Malaysia really so dangerous?”

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Have you ever heard of ? Well, after watching this video, you won’t forget it. I call it the Grand Canyon of Southeast Asia, even though it’s not a canyon at all, but when we went there, it was that same jaw-dropping feeling of overlooking a spectacular natural wonder that is one-of-a-kind, found nowhere else on earth. It’s that feeling of being small in an awe-inspiring, huge world. Bliss amidst breathtaking beauty.

We thought maybe the pictures online that we’d seen had been touched up, but this video will prove to you that this may just be Malaysia’s most beautiful place. And you might even consider it the most beautiful place in the world.

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Believe it or not, some people actually take their side mirrors off of their motorcycles when coming to Asia. Is it because of the crazy traffic, or because there are simply different rules of the road? And does that mean that mirrors are completely useless or even a hindrance in certain situations?

As we struggle with our own mirror issues while riding through East Malaysia on our KTM 250 Adventure, we discuss why people do this, and what our thoughts on it are.

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Some monkeys are nice, like the proboscis monkeys of the island of Borneo. But some monkeys like the macaques… well, let’s just say they are the evil ones.

We've been riding our KTM 250 Adventure motorcycle around East Malaysia, and were now exploring the Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Reserve when we had a very mischievous wild encounter with the monkeys here. And one of them in particular wanted my nice KLIM helmet! What was I supposed to do?

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