Bodywise Pilates & Wellness

10/02/2026

Yesterday we drove overland from Sandakan to Sepilok orang-utan 🦧 rehabilitation centre & sun bear sanctuary . They are doing such a wonderful job of taking care of the orangutan and their future.
The young ones were a joy to watch.
From there we had a 2 hour jungle river boat trip to Sakau Rainforest lodge. Sir David Attenborough stayed here in 2011 when making a documentary on Borneo. The diversity of fauna and wildlife is incredible. We’ve seen macaques, proboscis monkeys, wild orangutan, hornbills, egrets, snakes and much more. We did a night cruise last night, pre sunrise cruise this morning and a jungle walk ( when we saw the wild orangutan near our Villa). Every day brings a new adventure 🥰

06/02/2026

We made it! Mount Kinabalu peak 4095.2m. Jeez it was flipping tough but soooo worth it to see the sunrise over the clouds.
A ‘take your breath away’ moment and a massive feeling of achievement. Absolutely relentless steep climb and we both suffered with some altitude sickness (dizzy, nauseous and unsteady on our feet).
With a nice steady pace and water breaks we still managed to overtake half of the other climbers with the help of our lovely guide from .junkie
Short rest at the base camp and then the descent back to the start gate…. that was almost tougher than going up 😆😆, my knees and hips are cursing me now
I think we deserve a celebratory drink 🍸

05/02/2026

What an incredible day! Picked up in the mini bus at 6.30am. 2 hour drive through the most stunning scenery to Timpohon gate to meet our guide for our ascent up Mount Kinabalu. .junkie have been great, everything so well organised and friendly. It’s been a relentless ascent to the base camp, far tougher than I expected, but we’ve loved every minute thanks to our guide Si. It’s only 6.5km from the start gate to the base camp but we’ve climbed 1600m. Tomorrow we have breakfast at 2am and start our climb at 3am to reach the summit for sunrise 🌅. A good supper and rest are in order.

31/01/2026

29/01/2026

Chocolate peanut butter dates… delicious mini snickers bars

21/01/2026

No birthday open water swim this morning…even surfing would have been a challenge 😆. The sea was wonderfully wild. Instead coffee and carrot cake with 🥰 at my favourite place . Not loving the candle number because I really don’t feel like I’m a year off the big 60 😳🫣