Sabah Ranau Hotel

... in relative luxury for the next three nights before I fly to Bali. Went out for a few beers this evening with some guys I met on the mountain. Returned to the hotel early to hit the sack, the exercise and lack of sleep has left me feeling a little ...

... 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 ...

17/03/2010 One of the biggest attractions of Sabah is the Sepilock Orangutang Rehabilitation Centre. It's near a city in the North-East of Malaysian Borneo named Sandakan. Being a large city, there are several public buses, countless tourist buses and ...

... 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 ...

... noodle and egg. It was still early, so we decided to jump on the bike and head back to Sandakan. We went to a fantastic hotel called the mayfair. Run by a Gruff Chinese man, the room cost the same as the Backpackers but had a private Ensuite and a plasma ...

... a little work and Anna and I went to the Kundasang War Memorial. This was a commemoration to the many many Australians, British and Sabah soldiers - including 31 NZ who went of the marches from Sandakan to Ranau as prisoners of war of the Japanese. Of the ...

... it and were requesting to much to show us how to get there!! So we continue and after 2 more hours get to Ranau, at the Kundasang War Memorial, which commemorates the British and Australian prisoners who died during the Sandakan Death Marches...They were ...

... off ... literally!  Despite these complaints the achievement of reaching the summit was rewarded with a relatively clear view over Sabah which was amazing and unforgettable.  SSoon after we commenced our descent stopping off at Laban Rata for ...

... kamen wir in einen richtig heftigen Regenguss und waren trotz Regenkleidung ziemlich durchnaesst. Dann mussten wir in Ranau auch noch ewig suchen bis wir ein leistbares Hotel fanden und das war dann auch nicht sehr besonders, die Stadt ist uns also nicht ...

... ;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 ...

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 ...

(Christopher wrote this) {After a very local breakfast in Ranau of malay-style chicken noodle soup and tea, we went to wait for another bus.  A few blocks from our hostel in we sat at the bus stop contemplating the final six weeks of our trip and ...

... from the bedroom balcony and a quick breakfast of beans with, rather than on, toast, we sat on the road outside the hotel to flag down the Ranau – KK mini-bus. It became apparent that this was not a good idea as those that were plying this route ...

... 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 ...

... deaths of more than 3,600 Indonesian civilians and 2400 Allied POWS.  By the end of the war, of all the prisoners who had been incarderated at Sandakan and Ranau (the site where the March began) only six Australians survived, all of whom had escaped. ...

... , I was still trying to work out where they were from, I plumped for Sweden or Norway. We passed the tallest building in Sabah a 32 storey effort which is built close to the coast, 32 storeys because of the 32 indigenous tribes of Sabah, it was built so ...

... as possible?    I also did some sightseeing. On the way to KK we overnighted at the Poring Hot Springs near Ranau, walked the surrounding tropical rain forest and did the canopy walkway. In KK I walked all over the city, visited the Sabah ...

... Me? I'm planning next year's visit already :-) Expenses (excluding food and shopping): RM548 (~Ł110) Ł1=RM5 Accommodation: 2 nights Nak Hotel (RM75/night) RM150 Sepilok Orangutan Centre: RM44 (RM30 entry, RM10 camera fee, RM4 public bus there) Taxi ...