Visiting Asia’s Worst Holiday Town!

Visiting Asia’s Worst Holiday Town!

Off the coast of Borneo, there’s a community unlike anywhere else on the planet, the Baja. Also known as the sea nomads. These guys have been living on wooden huts above the ocean for centuries. And here is the craziest part. Most of them aren’t citizens of any country. Imagine living your whole life at sea with no passport. Well, today we’re going to head out and try and meet them. And honestly, I have no idea what’s going to happen or if they even agree to meet me. There’s only one way to find out. And after 5 months of traveling endless miles, this was to be Mine and Cat’s final adventure for a while as she returns to Portugal. Will it be a trip to remember or a total disaster? Let’s find out. And this is where the journey starts, guys. Welcome to Borneo, the third largest island on the planet. Hello. An island full of tribes, snakes, monkeys, rainforest, heavy storms, you name it, this island has it. It’s going to be a wild adventure. Katarina, are you ready? More than ready. It’s already been a pretty weird start. So, let’s see what else we get ourselves into. Let’s do it. It appears to be a camera friendly country. That’s just like the Philippines. You walk around with your camera, people wave, smile, welcome you to the country. Here he is. Hello, guys. Bloody hell. Health and safety. Look, just a couple wires and that is it. See, friendly people. They don’t mind the camera. So, this should be a good fun place to make a video or two. Hey. Oh, he’s waving me over. See, I told you I want to go shy. I think you want to say hello. Say hello. How are you? Okay. Good to meet you. Hello. Your wife. My friend. My friend. Yeah. Girl. Girl. Give me five. Cheers. Bye guys. Have a good day. Man, what a place. Look. This is the heart of Sandan. So, our long journey starts here in the city of Sandakan. We’ve got to get to another city called Sorna, right in the very south. I’ll map it out for you now. It’s about a 9h hour drive with stops. But this is Borneo, guys. This won’t be no normal roads. Believe me, we’ve been on them. It took 10 hours to get to this city by a bus. I didn’t film that, but the roads were insane. The weather can just turn at any moment. So, let’s see how this journey goes. But yeah, this is Sandan. Let me show you briefly what it’s like. There’s cat having a great time already. Bloody hell. What was that? Someone just threw up inside that building, man. Oh, what a place. Okay, let’s head down this way. See what it’s like down here. This lady’s throwing up as well. Everyone’s thrown up around here. Do you know what this place reminds me of? What? Yangon, Myanmar. Yeah, it is. The buildings, isn’t it? Very similar to Yangon. Obviously here, Borneo, British Borneo back in the day was obviously a colony for the Brits for like 200 years, I believe. Same with Myammar. So the buildings here are quite similar how they were built up and how they’re just left. Oh, that woman’s like heaving a gut up over there. This is a Chinese building, but these buildings here, which you’ll see around the corner as well. This is the sort of thing we seen in Yangon. So let’s see what else is down this way. Yeah, there’s a lot of history here, guys, as well. And I’m going to tell you all about it. Some stories honestly blew my mind when I was researching about it. Obviously I knew this was a British colony back in the day. But some of the stories honestly I’ll tell you all about it when uh Hello when we begin the road trip. They honestly some of the stories that happened here were mind-blowing. Yeah. What a cool little place. Not much going on but as you seen people are friendly. Everyone’s waving here already is some weird wildlife. My camera won’t pick that up, but there’s some sort of lizard thing swimming around. Cat. Oh, she’s got it. We’re zooming with Cat’s iPhone. Look at that. It’s massive. It’s almost like I think it’s a monitor lizard. You see these in Southeast Asia. But there you go. That’s the type of weird animals we’re going to be seeing on this trip. Got to make sand, unfortunately, nice and quick because it’s starting to rain heavy and this camera is not waterproof. Um Oh, bloody hell. Gaping hole. Another gaping hole. Hello. So, yeah, let’s make this quick. Have a little walk around. I’ll show you the market or something down here and I’ll quickly show you my hotel where we spent the night last night. It was brutal, let me tell you. Cuz £13 and you get that for what it’s worth. Trust me. Cat, look. Oh, it’s here. Yeah. Look at the size of that here. Holy There’s another one. This one’s pretty small, though. There’s a big one swimming away. It’s a mini Godzilla. Okay. Okay, down by the riverport. Not much going on. Very polluted. All the locals just throw their rubbish into the water and all these bloody lizard things just eat it. What we’re going to do quickly is learn a couple Mallay phrases. They speak great English. It’s a second language here in the country, but their main language is Mala. Karina, what is hello? So, good afternoon is celatang. That’s easy. Let’s use it now on the locals drinking on the floor and see how they respond. Let’s go. What is it? Celat instantly forgot within a second. Celatang. Patang. Celatang. Patang. Celad. Hey, how are you? Yes. Good. Uh um I don’t have I’m from England. Oh, from England. Yeah. Yeah. already come here. We um we explore Borneo. Oh yes, like that. Good place. Oh, what are you drinking? First time come here. Yeah, first time. First time. Yeah. Yes. Good place. Good people. And what is this? Yes. Drink. Yeah. Okay. Have a good day. All right. Thank you. How do you say thank you in Malay? Telmas. Telmac. Okay. Nice to meet you, Telas. Yes. There we go. We’ve learned another phrase. Telmac and Celat Patang. Celatang. Hey, there we go. We’re on a roll cart ready to explore one of the largest islands in the world. Oh, there’s bloody rain. I was hoping to get on a boat and show you around a little bit, but I mean, we still probably can. There’s there’s a couple covered ones, but I don’t know where they’ll take us. There’s a few islands knocking around in the distance. Maybe we can ask someone where we can go quickly. Bollocks to the boat. The rain’s getting heavier. Yeah, look at it. It’s just filthy around here. Locals just lob all their trash just down here on the rocks into the water. They have a lot of like fishing net things. Oh, yeah. Just fishing nets discarded. Just don’t seem to care. Well, the majority of them don’t care. Honestly, look, it’s filthy. This is right in front of our hostel/ hotel, which is up there. We’ll go there in a second. You know what’s funny? When we booked our hotel, the view from the window which showed on Booking.com showed this like tropical blue water. And we thought, “Bloody hell, 13 quid for this. Couldn’t believe the price.” But the photos did not show any of this floating around in the water. Look at all the plastic bottles. I mean, myself and Cat, I’m not joking. We’ll walk around with our rubbish trying to find a bin for hours and eventually you’ll find one or you got to bring it back to your hostel. But then you come to these parts of the world. Bloody filthy. Look at all the plastic bottles. Look. That’s our hotel over there. Cat, lead the way. Let’s go show them what £13 a night gets you. Oh. All right. Here we go. So, welcome to our £13 a night hotel where we slept last night. Now, listen. £13 a night. I’m not complaining about the price. I’m not really complaining about the room, but I’m going to show you what 13 quid gets you. There’s our big double bed with rock hard pillows. We’ve got some blood stained walls. We’ve got AC blasting. We’ve of course got the wonderful view of the plastic riddled sea with dragons eating at it. And we’ve even got a private shower. Unfortunately though, it stinks. It stinks with piss. And they’ve even put those things, you know those things you get in like men’s urinals like coverless smell. You’ve got those in the room. And trust me, the smell blows out cuz you can’t close the door. Look, let me try to close the door. You can’t bloody close it. So cat, I think we should get out of here and begin our little road trip through Borneo. Ladies and gentlemen, it’s time to tell you about our lifesaver once again whilst we travel. Tell them Cat Sy of course. Now, for those who don’t know what an e SIM is, you need to. It’s 2025. The days of buying SIM cards at the airport or paying extortionate Roman charges is over. Now, you just arrive at a new destination, set up your SY data plan, and you’re good to go. It avoids all that hassle of finding SIM cards at the airport, and of course, saves you a lot of money. Sail is very easy to use and covers more than 200 destinations. 200. That’s pretty much the entire world. 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He said, “Listen, be careful. All right. The roads are shocking. I think we’re going to lose our deposit of £16, but let’s find out. Okay, G. Okay, G. Gats. Okay, cat, guide me through Sandan. Get me out of here. Now, remember when I told you there’s British history here, obviously in Borneo? Now, when I was doing my research about the island, I learned some stories. Honestly, that blew my mind. So down the road there is a uh memorial for the Brits and the Australians. So we’re going to go there now and I’m going to tell you all about it. Honestly, it was mind-blowing the stories I read about online. So let me show you. Okay, guys. This is the memorial park now. It’s absolutely pouring down right now. We’re hid underneath these trees, but I can see the memorial. It’s not undercover. So, what I’m going to do is I’m going to do a voice over and tell you all about what happened here in Borneo. But in front of me, you’ve got the Malaysian flag, the Australian flag, and the British flag. So, yeah, let me show you. In 1942, the Japanese invaded Borneo and set up large prisoner war camps in Sandacan. Around 2,400 soldiers, mostly Australian and British, were held there. By 1945, the Allies advanced and the Japanese forced a weakened and starving prisoners to march through the jungle from Sandacan to Rena, 260 km away. Disease, starvation, and exhaustion killed many along the way. Of the 2,400 prisoners, only six Australians survived, all of them by escaping. No British soldier survived. Today, the Sandacan death marches are remembered as one of the worst war crimes committed in Southeast Asia with memorials built in Sandacan and Rena. So, that was the Sandacan War Memorial. And I figured I’ll put this in the video because honestly, I didn’t know about this. Did you know about this? No, not at all. I found that a lot of pieces of the country’s history, you really just find it when you go to these places. Yeah. Because you’re not taught at school everything. Yeah. You’re not taught these things at school. And well, you’ve seen the story. Pretty um insane what happened here. So yeah, that was the war memorial here in Sandakan. Now we’re going to push on half an hour up the road because cat wants to see well I want to see as well. Orangutangs, the iconic orangutang here in Borneo. So hopefully we can see him. The rain’s sort of eased off. It comes and goes, but let’s try see some My guy was right. The road’s a wank. Oh yeah, this is why Google Maps lies on this island because it says like 6 hours to Sora, but even the guy I rented the car off, he was like, “Mate, 10 hours minimum. Take your time.” Listen to that. These roads are falling apart. That’s why it’s going to take a good 10 hours or so. Whoa. I doubt we’re going to see any orangutanks. The weather is shocking. I’m guessing they hide away when it’s pissing it down. Either way, we’re going to go to their rehab center up the road. It’s this place where like all the oranga tanks. It’s not rehab center. They are non-co sanctuary. What do I call it? Rehab center. Bloody hell. the um sanctuary of orangutangs where they keep like injured orangutans and ones that have I don’t know been abandoned by their mom. No idea. So we won’t see any. Okay. So when it’s raining there’s there’s no point coming guys. Unfortunately because of the weather it’s now stopped raining. That’s the thing with the rainforest. It pours down and then it’s fine again. But the guy was honest. He said, “Listen, you ain’t gonna see any oranguta tanks. Come back another day. The rain has scared them off for hiding in the trees.” So, yeah, have to leave it. This is the Borneo I was hoping for with renting this car. And what I want to show you guys, this is well, a lot different to Sandacan. Sandakan, as you seen, was quite rundown, but it still had like modern things like McDonald’s and like there was a shopping mall there and a couple nice hotels, but the real Borneo over there, you got people living in like shacks. Oh, here we go again. Look, man. This is Oh, and on the left there, this is the real Borneo that you’re now going to see from now on in the next couple videos. Hello. Hey. You see this part of this island, they don’t see foreigners around. So you obviously do back there and the orangutang centuries and Sandakan, but foreigners don’t come here and rent a car. They just fly from Kotakinabulu, the capitals, and they just land here. They see the orangutangs and they leave. They don’t see this part of the island. So yeah, we’re going to get a lot of uh mysterious hi and hells and meet some cool people hopefully. These are the potholes, guys. Look at the size of them. That’s what the roads have been like. We finally come across some civilization. This small little village next to the river. Look at this guys, man. We’re going to try park up here, have a little walk around, maybe go on the river cuz the river is literally there. So, let’s uh let’s see what’s around here. What an interesting little village this is. There’s a few people knocking around, but half it looks like that. Hey, brother. Can we go on the river? Uh, so he’s saying just park down here, huh? Next to this volleyball court. Look at this. Look. Okay, let’s try find a local and hop on a boat and check out this river. Let me actually show you the river first. Just down here. Look at that danger. Crocodile cat. You see that crocodile warnings? Oh, hold on. Because they said like saltwater crocodiles or the smaller ones, Easter. Yeah. The river ones. River crocodiles. Either way, it’s going to bite your dick off if you get too close. And there’s the river. There’s the boats. So hopefully we can try and get on one of these and check out the iconic Borneo River. There’s some guys here. Look. Yes, mister. Hello, my friend. Yes. What do you want? We just want to go on the river, maybe. Yeah. You want to go in the river? It’s possible. What’s so funny? Boat or by swim? Not by swim. I’ve seen a warning signs. Yeah. We want to maybe go like a 1 hour tour. See some crocodiles. Well, normally they will do in 4:30, 4:00, something like that. 4:30. What’s the time now? Still early. Oh You have no He just walked off. I thought he’d like haggle a little bit and say, “Yeah, I’ll take you anyway.” He’s like, “Nah, not a chance, mate. You’re too early.” He’s saying 4:30, is he? It’s because of the heat. I think they do like um it’s 3 p.m. I think. So, let’s see. Not bothered about the heat. I just want to see some crocodiles, but I guess they are bothered about the heat. The boat drivers, they don’t want to be stuck on that river for an hour. Let’s ask a couple more people. Um if not, we’ll have to try again. So, we just spoke to a lady that works in the office over there. Cat, what she say? is fully booked. So, they have just one boat available and it’s full. So, and the others are um under maintenance because of a heavy storm she was saying. So, I have to come back and do this. That’s the orangutang failed and the river failed. This is a bloody disaster. It’s not failed, it’s postponed. Postponed. I like that word. Okay, let’s get back in the car, keep driving, and then we can come across more villages like this. So, let’s go to more remote rural places, shall we? Let’s get back in the car and push on. We’re bloody starving. Been on the road now for 4 hours. Not seen much apart from that small town back there. But other than that, yeah, we’re not seeing anything. We see the odd guy selling like a coconut on the side of the road. But other than that, we’re just seeing like homes like this built on stilts, but no like roadside cafes, no other like small towns or villages. So, the hunt for a meal is a tricky one. Look, there’s no food around here. We’re still about 3 hours from Sona, which means about five. So, cat, I mean, look. Anyone sell any nasi gang? Nasi grang’s the local dish here. What’s that? Cold storage bondage bonder. Honestly, this has been our view for 4 hours. The occasional home built on stilts and then this for another half an hour and then you’ll see the same again. Other than that, it’s been pretty much nothing. Just rainforest and roads. Oh, what’s this ahead? No town. Another car wash. Here we go. What’s this then? Oh, goats coffee. Goats coffee. Barber. A barber. This will do. Right, let’s pull up. Oh, restaurant. Oh, right in front of it. Yes. All right. I’m literally parked on that table. There you go. At long last, we found one. That always happens when I’m like talking about what we need to find and what we’re on a look for, what we’re on the lookout for. It comes up instantly. It’s the YouTube gods looking out for us. Right, let’s see if they got any food. Okay, let’s ask this lady. Hello. Do you have food? Hello? Do you do nasi gorang? Nasi gorang? No. No. Okay, no problem. Okay, thank you. Okay, she didn’t have nasi gang. I don’t think she had much in there to be honest. There was a couple fish dishes but seemed to be empty. But that’s fine. There are other places. Look, there’s many restaurants around here. There’s people over there. Hello. Hello. Yeah, there’s loads of restaurants here. At long last, we found a cool little town. So, let’s walk down to the other end. See what’s going on. What’s this place? You got Paris Point. C. We’ve arrived in Paris. Oh, great. You’re joking. So, Oh, we are as well. Zoom right in on it, please. Cash just spotted. Look, it’s literally called Paris, this town. So, we’re in Paris, guys. This is the Borneo Paris. To be fair, I prefer this cuz Paris in Europe is a hole. Hey, brother. Hey, bro. How you doing? How you doing? Yeah, just walking around. I’m from England. From Portugal. Your wife? Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Thank you, mate. Is this town called Paris? Yes, Paris. Parisa. Why is it called Paris? Village name. Village name. Cuz it’s like France. Paris. Interesting. I’m looking for some nasi gorang. You know where I get nasi gang? You want to eat? Yes, please. Yeah. Somewhere over there. Over this way. Yeah. All right, brother. Thank you. Oh, nice. Okay, I’ll go here. Okay. Thank you. Bye-bye. You, too. So that guy’s recommended a nasi gurang just over here. Look nice little place actually. See Patang. How do you say it? Nasi gorang. No but good afternoon. Oh salatang. Salamat patang. Didn’t land did it? Um do you have nasi gurang? Yeah. Yes please. You have don’t think so. No. You have It’s awkward, isn’t it? Should we leave it? Okay. No worries. Thank you. No English. No English. English. You can ask. Yeah. This man’s going to help us. Yeah. Hot spicy. Uh, small spicy. Small spicy. Uh, okay sir. Thank you, brother. Thank you so much. Nice man. Helped us out. Order a nasi gurang. That legendary man that led us here. He just came over and said, “Got you this.” He got us a coke and a 100 plus cuz they don’t serve it here. He came over and was like, “I’ve got it for you. I just bought it.” I was like, “No, no, no, no.” We tried to pay him. It’d refuse. He was refusing our money. Oh, man. I wish I like got on film. What a great guy. Thanks so much. Okay. Look up. Nasi gang. Hot spicy. Spicy. Oh my god. Nasi garang. The classic Malaysian dish. Here we go. Very spicy. Oh my god. Oh my god. Bloody hell. Spiciest rice I’ve ever had. They’ve even given us these. But I seen how they made it. It was like tap water. I’m not telling you what was next to the kitchen. Not a rat. Was a toilet. Oh god. Oh well. I’ve survived India. I can survive this roadside place in Borneo. Great news. We’ve been driving on these roads for the past hour or so since we left Paris. And the roads have been great. No potholes, nice and smooth. So, we’re thinking we’re actually going to get to S Porna quicker than we originally thought. It says 2 hours on the map, but we were thinking, “Oh, it’s going to be four or five.” But maybe it is going to take 2 hours. So, that’s great news. Yeah. So, we’re going to bomb it as quick as possible, get to Sona, spend the night there, and then make a plan tomorrow how we’re going to see the Baja people. So, let’s get there. And just like that, welcome to Sea. Now, first impressions of this town. We’ve just driven through it. cat. First impressions on it’s brutal. It’s so rough. It’s extremely dirty. I’ll show you tomorrow, but in the meantime, we’re off to bed. So, yeah. Good night from Karina. Good night from me. Catch you in the morning here in Sona. Good morning all from San Porna. It’s the next day here and it’s finally time now to try see the Baja people. As you can see on a very bumpy road. This is where our hotel was last night back that way. We’re now going to head into the center of S Pa. Like we said, it’s pretty rough in there. We had a little glance as we were driving through, but now I’m going to go in there and show you what it’s like. Well, I did warn you it’s pretty rough here. This is the jetty where all the tourists come down to hop on their boats and go to these Well, we’ve seen online it’s a nice islands like half an hour that way or an hour that way. But here in Sauna, I mean, you’ve seen the you’ve seen what it’s like. It’s unbelievable how much I think this is one of the dirtiest places I’ve ever been. You’ve got a fact about it, right? Yeah. I read this is the third filthiest. The third filthiest? What’s the first? Bloody hell. Honestly, I’m lost for words how just dirty it is here. Just as far as I can see, there’s plastic bottles floating around. Plastic bags just at the bottom of the water. I don’t know what’s going on here, but it’s it’s depressing. It puts me off going to these islands. Yeah. And I was comparing with this. I think the poorest country we’ve been should be timless probably. That was relatively clean. It was. They threw the the the rubbish out of the windows as well, but it wasn’t this level. And the sea, the places we’ve been, it was quite clean, the beaches, honestly. Like, we want to do the island hopping. It’s like these nice islands off the coast. But is it worth it? Is it going to look like this? I mean, the island’s only about half an hour that way. You hop on one of these boats. Look at these guys. Woohoo. Oh, I mean, the people are really friendly here again. Like, they’re super friendly. But I just want to talk to them and be like, why is it so dirty here? Cuz it’s honestly, it’s putting me off going to these islands. I don’t know what to do. Either way, the plan is to now get a boat and go see the Basel communities. But we got to find someone that take us there. Agree a price and agree a plan. So, let the hunt begin. Oh, yeah. Let’s go. Let’s go find a fisherman or a tool. I don’t know. Watch where you’re stepping, cat. Blime me. What a place. Oh, man. Look at the view. Is that dog all right? Yeah, he’s good. All right, let that dog move. I don’t know what to do, guys. Honestly, I’m contemplating going or not. After walking around there, starting to think, is it worth it? I mean, this is the jetty where the tourists begin their trip. I don’t want to imagine what it’s like where we’re trying to go. Oh man, this is depressing. I’m actually in shock. Like I never seen anything like this and I thought I would never ever come across something like this. I don’t know what to say honestly. Hi, I’m hoping tomorrow. I’m actually here to see Baja people. Uh where Baja community the Baju uh Baju the people that live on the stilts on the sea. How far away? Oh need to go other island around 40 minutes. Which island? Uh Mabu. Mabu. Which boat goes to Mabu? Which boat? Uh our office. We will go my office to see the Okay. So we go to Maru Island and then the Baju people are on the water. Yes, it’s possible to go see the Bajel people. He will come. They will come. But we can go sell coconut uh seafood. Okay. Um when is the next boat leaving? Oh, tomorrow morning. Tomorrow. Now it’s every day, every morning at until night. We’ll go 9:00 8:00 8:00 or 9 something. I show you in the Okay, let’s go. Let’s do it. So, we just had a long chat with that bloke in his office. He was basically trying to sell us a typical tourist tour where you go like beach hopping and island hopping. But like I said, I don’t think fancy doing that. Uh cuz well, you’ve seen what it’s like. Um but we do obviously want to see the Baja people. So, we asked him like, “How do we get to see them?” And he was like, “Oh, super far away. Need like a private boat and permission to go there.” I was like, “Surely not. I’ve seen like other people go there.” Um but I don’t know. I don’t know what to believe. So, we’re going to walk around a bit further and ask a few more locals. Don’t know how much longer for Oh, the smell. The smell is unreal. Then we walk to the end of this pier. Cat just checked Google Maps and she said there’s another jetty down the road. So, we’re going to go there and speak to some more locals if we can get a boat out of here. But um yeah, back there was mainly tourist places. So you go there, organize your tour for the island hopping. Where we’re going to go now is probably a bit more local. So we can try arrange, you know, a different type of um boat. But yeah, this is SA. What a place. Hello, mate. Yo. Hello. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you, too. Great to be here. Not really. Hey, bro. Hopscotch. Come on, cat. Give us a little jump. Let’s lighten up the mood around here. There you go. Didn’t quite lighten up the mood, I’ll be honest. Village down here. Look. Magul. Hello, brother. Magul came. Oh, thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Oh, it’s a village on the water. Good luck. All right, let’s do this. We have to walk through this. Yeah, we got to walk through basically what I’ve been filming. So, yeah, let’s do it. Hey, brother. Hey. If only you can smell what I’m smelling. It’s exactly how you can imagine. Just some dog walking on the trash. Oh man, what a place. Nah. Top five dirtiest places I’ve ever been. You said this is the third dirtiest city. I’m trying to like obviously not shout out the word dirty cuz obviously everyone knows what I’m talking about, right? But Cat said this is the third dirtiest. What’s the first? What is the first? I don’t know, but I’m also curious and I will Google it. Hello my friend. Hey brother. Do you know what’s funny? Myself and cat have been walking around with this empty bottle for about an hour now cuz we can’t lit up. We just can’t do it. But I mean, is there much point just lob on the floor like everyone else? Obviously, we’re not going to do that. We’re going to carry it home. I’ve seen a couple bins, but I’m guessing they just empty those bins into the water. I can imagine that’s the case. Cat. [Music] There you go. Where will that end? Oh, I dread to think. [Applause] [Applause] So, this part of Borneo was actually basically a no-go zone for years now. Now, it’s been about 10 years or so since it last happened, but a lot of foreigners were getting kidnapped around here by pirates off the coast. And I think one time like 16 foreigners got kidnapped and held for ransom for like a long time. But they’ve cracked down on that now. The police and the army, I’m guessing, patrol the waters around here. And if you want to go to the islands, you got to sign your passport to them and stuff like that. actually got to go through a few procedures because yeah, pirates obviously in these areas not so long ago, but it’s obviously been about 10 years. So, we’ve arrived at the next jetty. This one’s a lot more quiet. Let’s go in there and see. We can speak to a couple locals about getting this trip sorted. Sorry. For tomorrow, we’re trying to see. Yeah, the Baja. Yes, Baj. That’s what we’re trying to see. Today, not to tomorrow. Today. Today. Yeah. Mega mega island. This is my island. How far away is the island? How far away? But where is Baja? Where is Baja? Yeah. Uh about for tomorrow. Tomorrow? Yes. Tomorrow. Take my number. Okay. WhatsApp. Yeah. What? Hello, friend. Hello, friend. photo video. Smile for YouTube. Okay, great news. That bloke we just met on the street, his contact. We had a little word with him and he’s put us in contact with another person on one of the Baja Islands. So, we’re going to message him and sort out something for tomorrow. It’s too late today. Boats seem to leave in the morning. Don’t know why. It’s just how it is here. But I think we’re going to end things here, guys, on this mega journey here in Borneo. We’ll have to wait and see if in the next video we actually go see the Bajiel community. It could be a complete waste of time us coming here. It’s been a crazy adventure. C, have you had fun? I did. I really like the drive here. The drive was awesome to be fair, going through the rainforest roads. But yeah, let’s see if it was all worth it in the end. So, I’ll catch you guys on the next video here in Borneo. Take care.

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Visiting Asia’s Worst Holiday Town! We came to Borneo the third largest island on the planet to find the Bajau community, one of the most unique cultures on the planet. The Bajau have spent centuries living at sea and are not citizens of any country. So we began a long journey to try find them! Would this be a trip to remember or a total disaster…lets find out.

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