Shangri-La's Rasa Ria Resort, Kota Kinabalu

Sabah - Borneo Known as "The Land Below the Wind" due to it being geographically below the typhoon belt. Sabah has a population of 2.5 million that consist of 32 ethnic communities; it is the second largest state in Malaysia. The City of Kota Kinabalu is the capital of Sabah. Sitting on the west coast of Sabah it faces the South China Sea. Sabahans are very friendly and if you need help getting around, you can just stop and ask someone and you will be greeted with a big smile. The locals are ...

Så er det sidste sted på turen. 11 dage på Shangri-La Rasa Ria Resort, et luksushotel med pool, strand, 5 restauranter, eget orangutang rehabiliteringscenter, golfbane og meget meget mere. Hotellet ligger ud til vandet med udsigt til Mount Kinabalu.  Vi har brugt rigtig meget tid ved poolen, så vi er alle helt rynkede og Anders har fået kloreksem.  En af dagene var vi på en tur til en snorkelø en halv times sejlads fra hotellet. Tobias havde fået et godt råd om at medbringe en tom flaske fyld...

fun with family in Malame-sia

So we are now in Borneo and I have been designated as nominated writer for the next couple of weeks of the journey as Jason is finding all the typing a bit much ..... he's going to have a shock when he goes back to work ;-)
Anyway here we go ....We had a fairly early start to leave Singapore and after a fairly bumpy flight we arrived in Kota Kinabalu. We transferred straight to the hotel which is on the edge of the jungle about an hours drive out of the city. The hotel was great and thing...

Rasa Ria 2nd July - 10th July Flew to KK on Monday (2nd July) afternoon and went straight to the Rasa Ria Resort to meet the rangers there and to have a tour around. Was a bit gutting being there but not being able to stay in the hotel and use the facilities. The only thing we have access to when we're here is the beach so it isn't so bad. Then we were taken to Tuaran, the town we were going to be staying in where the apartment was. The Rasa Ria it was not!! The apartment seemed ok at first b...

I am back home but I will be a traveler for the next six days. Isn't that paradoxically exciting? In this Sabah travel blog series, I will include hints and tips, all these treasures are collected after being a Sabahan for 21 years. Let's start the story, shall we? The first day in Kota Kinabalu. We had brunch at Fuping, the best place for dimsum in KK. I had been having dimsum cravings for months! Fuping is on Lintas Road at Hilltop. It's the best place for dimsum, cheaper than hotels and it...

We went back to KK via Tuaran as we wanted to have a look at The Shangri-La's Rasa Ria resort, which was having a promotion at the time, as were most of the big tourist places hit by the plunge in tourism since September 11. We had a look around but decided there was no compelling reason for us to stay there, and we would be just as happy in Trekkers Lodge. Back in Kota Kinabalu we drove out to the Magellan hoping we were not too late for their buffet lunch. We were disappointed to find that ...

Its funny how we decided to go to Borneo in the first place.The May Day was coming up , so we knew that if we took friday off we could have a four day weekend. The only trouble was that to go out of the country we would need a visa and that would take time.So it had to be within Malaysia. During the tea break of my french class, Leila suggested that we go to borneo.......and that got me thinking. a number of people had spoken of Sabah ( which is part of Borneo island) very highly and this wou...