This is how, in three days, we went from hotel hell to scuba diving bliss.

We promised we’d be back soon, so here’s our first episode of 2022!

With Malaysia’s state borders and Sabah’s district borders open again, we set off with joyful hearts on a road trip across Borneo. But finding hotels that were ready for us, or staff who gave an actual toss, turned out to be less than easy.

Until we reached our destination. Could Sipadan Kapalai Dive Resort be scuba paradise?

First sight of Kapalai Resort

You can watch the full video here…

This video will be followed up with the first of our weekly ‘video podcasts’ on Wednesday 19th (22:00 UTC). If you have a question related to the video (or anything else, for that matter!) please pop it in the comments below here or beneath the video on YouTube and we’ll try to answer and name-check you.