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Kota Kinabalu Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Waiting for the Philippines
This is a top pick! After flying in from Sarawak, we arrive in Sabah in the city of Kota Kinabalu the weather is crap. We didn't know what we was doing in Sarawak, we had a few ideas and looking around found out they were really expensive! For example; Diving at Sipidan ...
Leaving Borneo
This is a top pick! Leaving Borneo tomorrow and going back to the capital Kuala Lumpur on Peninsular Malaysia. It's been a fantastic month on this huge island (third largest in the world after Austrailia and Greenland) and the highlight for me has got to be climbing Mount ...
Climbing Mount Kinabalu - Day 3
This is a top pick! ... would all be getting up for a 2am start, so that we could reach the summit for a 6am sunrise. Top Tip: When booking your Mount Kinabalu climb make sure you book a bed in the hostel. It may be more expensive than the huts but it is worth it just to ...
Climbing Mount Kinabalu - Day 4
This is a top pick! ... tubs are filling fastest. And do not forget to do lots of warming down and stretching all day as soon as you finish the Kinabalu descent. Otherwise for the next couple of days you may feel pain in muscles you didn't know you had each time you walk down ...
Arrived on Sabah shores
This is a top pick! ... sleeping for most of the ferry journey. After a short wait on Labuan island it was onto the next ferry (RM31.50) out to Kota Kinabalu - the state capital for Sabah. First impressions of KK are not as positive as other cities I have visited in Borneo. ...
White Water Rafting
This is a top pick! Ok today is Monday and today we are going white water rafting; bring it on. We have to get up at 6.30am so we have enough time for breakfast (which I forgot to say is included in the price of the room too; self service) and my morning coffee so I can ...
Going to Bangkok
This is a top pick! Time to leave Malaysia and move to Thailand. People lately keep asking me "are you excited?", but I must say "no", I don't feel excited, just happy to be going to Thailand. At least that is the case until I board Thai Airways flight 418. I am greeted ...
The binge begins...
This is a top pick! ... of my liver were not being duly punished, the latter being something I dealt with as soon as I arrived in KK. Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, is a beachside backpacker Mecca, servicing divers, trekkers and general alcoholics with equal enthusiasm, ...
Kota Kinabalu (Sabah) - Day 162-163
This is a top pick! Day 162 - 02/08/08 This is going to be my briefest blog entry ever! Did nothing today, did some shopping, picked up my laundry and walked around town for a while, that's about it. Went for a few drinks at the Hyatt bar in the evening to watch a ...
Our last night in KK
This is a top pick! Our last night was a blast. What was supposed to be a few quite drinks on our last night turned into a bit of another beer fest? We met up with Sophie & Averill around 7pm and had our last coffee from Coffee Bean before walking across the road to ...
The Wilds of Borneo
This is a top pick! Kota Kinabalu is really just a stopover point for me to be able to climb Mount Kinabalu. Its not big place, you could walk from one end to the other in about a half hour. Its full of new but crappy buildings, mainly because the city was leveled by ...
Quick stop over
This is a top pick! We flew into Kota Kinabalu and checked into a very grotty guesthouse - only one night, we could hack it. We explored the amazing local market and with the shadow of Mount Kinabalu in the background made plans for the next week. Everything is so spread out ...
Kota Kinabalu
This is a top pick! Tues Sep 14th - Day 132 The overnight arrival of several gallons of lactic acid to our limbs lead to a day of restricted movement. We swapped the Daya Hotel for the cheaper Pantai Inn, and explored a little of downtown KK in a kind of constipated ...
Mountain climbing!!!
This is a top pick! With only 11 days in Sarawak, North Borneo, we thought we wouldn't have enough time to do everything. Seeing turtles being released and diving made us love this part of Borneo enough to come back for more, especially the diving. Somehow we had a few days ...
Happy Birthday dear Benjamin happy birthday to you
This is a top pick! Today is Ben's birthday and we have arranged to go diving with Sophie and Averil plus a few others near the small island called Mamutik (I think) about 20 minutes away by speed boat. We meet at the dive shop at 8.30am, make sure we have all our gear ...
Return to Kinabalu
This is a top pick! Saturday 9th October 2004 Was well prepared for the ferry back - and was wrapped up warm. Met "Danny Baldhead" at BSB's bus station, who is keen to show me the latest Lonely Planet he is apparently featured in (as well as stamps he has produced with ...
Kota Kinabalu: market down as a nice town!
This is a top pick! ... a bad way and had the most disgusting after taste - basically it was harder to finish than the mountain itself! Our final night in Kota Kinabula also saw us meet up with Kate and Darren for the last time :( we had some farewell drinks and said our last ...
Off to Borneo for new adventures
This is a top pick! ... for them I realized they cost 7 quid!! We eventually boarded the plane and head off into blue sky for the 2 hour flight to Kota Kinabalu, Borneo. Coming in to land was beautiful as we flew down the coast and at one point I thought we were going ...
Kota Kinabalu (Sabah) - Day 159
This is a top pick! ... national park early tomorrow morning to start the climb of the biggest mountain in south-east Asia. Didn't really do a lot around Kota Kinabalu today. Had a walk on the waterfront, packed my bag for the mountain, bought some food (The food on the ...
Climbing Mount Kinabalu - Day 1
This is a top pick! Today we left the city of Kota Kinabalu and travelled to the mountain base camp. Towards the end of the journey the road just kept going up and up and I was starting to wonder if the driver was going to simply take us all the way to the summit. ...
Take Me Higher...
This is a top pick! Tuesday 28th September 2004 6.30am my alarm was set for, to catch my 9.50 flight from KL international airport, 45 miles away. I awoke to the alarm, well, an alarm - somebody else's alarm to be precise, in another room, at 8.00am - I now have 65 ...
Not so WILD Borneo
This is a top pick! ... to have realized this by now, but this continues to amaze me. Since I've had a couple days to take in the city of Kota Kinabalu, I've been wandering around a lot. Today, my wild and crazy Borneo adventure landed me in a mall. There are ...
Sapi Island
This is a top pick! ... big TV, nice comfortable cane chairs, friendly people, and great service. A real score, clearly the best hostel I've stayed in Malaysia so far! Today, I got a local boat to Sapi Island. This island, about 20 minutes off the coast, provides two stunning ...
Into Borneo
This is a top pick! ... know what to do next. It was at this point that the stewardess woke me up and asked me to prepare for landing. In reality Kota Kinabalu is a modern town that could be anywhere in the world. The Colonial and The Clown have already been busy in the town ...
Happy New Year from Borneo
This is a top pick! ... so over-the-top. I would guess that it's probably just as big, if not bigger, than Christmas in America. While walking around Kota Kinabalu on the back streets we came across a very exciting "Dragon Dance" that half the town seemed to be attending. We ...
You dont know what your missing
This is a top pick! ... is a tad confusing though when the map and guide books refer to it as Brunei which is only tiny while Borneo is split into two parts; Malaysia and Indonesia. You can base your self here in KK and travel in all directions there's so much to do you get an ...
Back to Island Life
This is a top pick! After a couple of great but sweaty days in Singapore it was time to hit the beach. We set off to an island off KK for a spot of snorkelling. G and I left the details to the girls so when we realised we had left the snorkels back at the hostel it ...
Day stopover on way to Malaysian Borneo
This is a top pick! Spent day in Kota Kinabalu, nothing to report, just waiting for plane to Sandakan. Smelly ...
Invasion of the Palm Trees
This is a top pick! ... we also saw a big monitor lizard so it was a good day for seeing the wildlife. The day after we took a 6hour bus to Kota Kinabalu the provincial capital (lots more Palm Tree plantations to see along the way) and we are staying here for a few days in the ...
Arriving in Borneo
This is a top pick! ... flight. It passed very quickly with our favourite past-time - talking!! It was a fairly short flight and we touched down in Kota Kinabalu just after 9pm. After a quick wander around town we fell into bed. We spent all day Monday wandering round town ...