The Buddhas of Borneo

“The Foreign and Commonwealth Office advise against all but essential travel to the coastal area of Sabah…”That’s the exact area of Borneo to which I was travelling. It couldn’t be that bad. I’d have a tour guide and a driver with me. It’s just jungles and monkeys anyway, isn’t it?Little did I know then that it wasn’t terrorists that I should have been warned about, but the entire unravelling of my senses.The Buddhas of Borneo takes the reader on a five day journey across North Eastern Borneo, from Prisoner of War Camps to Buddhist Temples, Bat-caves and Jungle Retreats. But nothing is as it seems - particularly on Turtle Island…