Novotel Kota Kinabalu

... 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 ...

We arrived in Kota Kinabalu airport to be greeted by Mr. Jensen Chong, our friendly guide from Sabah Holidays. He transferred us directly to 1 Borneo where we stayed in Novotel. 1 Borneo is reputed to be the largest lifestyle hypermall in Borneo, ...

... the trip was worth it. After a worthwhile leggy exercise at the wildlife park, we proceeded to the Filipino market in Kota Kinabalu located just beside the handicraft centre. This time it was my time for shopping and haggling on some beautiful seashells ...

Well the first few days in Kota Kinabalu were pretty dull with regards to reporting our movements as it was either raining or we were sleeping!  On our first afternoon, we went into the city centre to have a nose around, however, we got soaked as ...

... headed into KK city to check the town out and find out about diving Sipadan, a trek up the highest mountain in Malaysia (Mt Kinabalu) and a jungle tour to see the famous Oran Utang. The city has very few old buildings after being heavily bombed in WWII ...

Janet was waiting at the airport having flown in from Miri not long before us. The Novotel was the other side of town and not really near anything except a big mall that was attatched to the hotel. We wandered the mall before an earlish dinner to head ...

... else is new.  It was great.  I am going out to a different rig now so the next day I took a flight from KL to Kota Kinabalu which is in east Malaysia.  It is about a two and a half hour flight over the South China Sea.  Arrived about ...