Ranau Hotel

... knows when there will be a bus and then a mini-van shows up but same story as this morning. Now there is noone returning to Ranau so I need to charter (!!!!) the van back for 30R. I tell them that I will wait and see if anybody else will need a ride back ...

Arrived pretty late from Sepilok and eventually found a hotel, some dodgy place at the back of town with no shower in the bathroom. One night only please. Watched Malaysia beat Vietnam (?) in the SEA Games Football with some locals at the 'Muslim Food ...

... I think we will camp our here for a few days. The hotel is about 10 min from the park in Kundasang and called "The Cottage Hotel". Cam and Anna have pretty much given up on the mountain now - it is just too tricky to organise at short notice unless you ...

... too late to have to endure going with Rosalind to listen to her mother (who has "mental problems") sing. Book into a simple Chinese hotel, with a/c, and bathroom with hot water, for 35 RM where we have a rest, then back to Daniel's at 7pm for dinner of ...

... really accept a room without a window? We could never stay in a windowless room no matter how well-furnished it is. This hotel even gave us a calendar for 2002, featuring a picture of horses as it is the Chinese Year of the Horse. Raymond's Travel ...

... and introduced us to the driver, we climbed aboard. A couple of mins later we picked 4 lads up from the Best Western Hotel they sat behind us, one of them spoke with the loudest, deepest voice possible, Nay rolled her eyes it could be a long day. We ...

... No problem, we're seasoned travelers, not afraid of being flattened by big trucks or motorbikes gone astray. Checked into our hotel in Ranau, a pretty small town, and changed out of our long sleeves. It might have been chilly on the mountain top, ...

... the breathtaking views and sucked the damp, sweet air deeply into my lungs. While waiting for the van to depart KK I’d called a hotel called ‘Fairy Garden Resort’ and booked a room for the night. The van driver agreed to drop us there, ...

... where a Texan in a thread bare shirt offered us some bananas, Again the only Westerners on the bus were us and him. In Ranau we got a taxi immediately, RM25 for 22km seemed like a good price. Great thing about Borneo I never felt we were getting too ...

... up the mountain any earlier. We arrived at Poring via a night in Sandakan. All that can be said about Sanadakan is - nothing. Our hotel was too expensive and above what turned out to be a disco. We left on the first bus out at 7am the next ...

... an hour unable to move whilst simmo went off taking photographs. We had a hot shower each (a luxury apparently because most of the hotel had a cold shower but we had a posh room!) then headed down to dinner were with our new found group of mountain mates ...

... savorin a drop-dead(by our standard) seafood dinner! What a hearty mishmash! Indeed it was. We started with a great breakfast at the Hotel . We luv the spreads there, both the western and local helpings. The décor of the place was something. It livin up ...

... , včetně asi pěti druhů dezertů. Laban Rata vůbec připomínala spíš luxusní hotel než horskou chatu, což ostře kontrastovalo s tou spartánskou plechovou budovou, ve které jsem bydlel já. ...

... ;l domluvené ubytování na dnešní noc, protože na výstup jsem se chystal až další den. Řada hotelů existuje i přímo uvnitř parku, ale já jsem si raději zvolil vzdálenější ubytování, abych ...

... the entrance to the park. This gives one that   "Only in Borneo" setting that is a slogan seen on many buses.  The hotel "taxi"   if you can call it that is a clapped out but made to look supped-up Proton that makes a huge noise but goes ...

... (or perhaps due to some secret barbarism that defies explanation), the Japanese forced about 1300 men on three separate marches to Ranau, 250kms inland into the area surrounding Mt Kniabalu. The 1100 or so men too weak to start the marches were left ...

... extremely friendly, smiley and helpful!  In the evening we wandered down to the waterfront, a stone’s throw from our hotel, where we found a small strip of waterside bars and restaurants looking out to sea and a food market stacked with ...

... weren't doing anything that involves pulling yourself up a rope on a sheer granite cliff. Yup, leaves and bugs were perfect. Our hotel had a nice lodge-y feeling restaurant where we ate well and drank lots of warm Sabah tea, my new favorite thing. It ...