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Background: During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Federation of Malaya, which became independent in 1957. Malaysia was formed in 1963 when the former British colonies of Singapore and the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern coast of Borneo joined the Federation. The first several years of the country's history were marred by Indonesian efforts to control Malaysia, Philippine claims to Sabah, and Singapore's secession from the Federation in 1965.

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By Teun
December 17th 2009

How to climb Mt. Kinabalu.... and NOT make it to the summit! Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Mount Kinabalu

Mount Kinabalu, as seen from Park Headquarters

So a couple of days ago I set out to climb Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in South-East Asia at 4095m. It is a relative easy mountain to climb if you are in good shape, because you don't need professional equipment to reach the summit. It still requires 2 days to do it, though; you can't just drive to the top! I thought it would be a challenge and decided to sign up for it, although I haven't been doing a lot of sports lately, so I'm not in great shape. But I packed up my bag with the necessary gear [View Full Entry]

At the gate, 1866m, about to start the climb!

Laban Rata, 3300m, trying to put up my best smile

By Frisco
October 8th 2009

Malaysie : Sur les sentiers du Mt Kinabalu Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Mount Kinabalu

Destination finale, la haut dans les nuages

Introduction Le parc national Kinabalu s'étend sur 754 km2 dans les collines du nord du Sabah. Il s'agit de la destination touristique la plus visitée de l'Etat. Deux raisons a cela : premierement, la diversité exceptionnelle de la faune et, surtout, de la flore dans cette région a conduit le parc a etre classé au patrimoine mondial par l'UNESCO - et oui, désolé, ca doit grincer des dents sur les hauts de Bienne :) - et, deuxiemement, le Mt Kinabalu, au coeur du domaine, offre un splendide trek jusqu'a son sommet pour qui dispose d'une condition physique correcte ou d'une bonne [View Full Entry]

Une petite cascade d'eau claire marque le debut du trek

Une népenthes, une petite plante carnivore

By Tanya og Steffen
September 18th 2009

Paa toppen af verdenen - nae ja, ihverfald paa toppen af Borneo Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Mount Kinabalu

Mt Kinabalu paa afstand

Vi har hele tiden vaeret i tvivl om vi ville bestige Mount Kinabalu, som med sine 4095 m. er Borneos hoejeste bjerg. Vi havde laest, at det naermest var umuligt at bestige bjerget medmindre man havde booket plads lang tid i forvejen. Efter lang tids snak frem og tilbage, besluttede vi at vi ville proeve at kontakte dem der haandtere bookingerne (Sutera Sanctuary Lodges), for at hoere om der var plads - og soerme om vi ikke var heldige! De fleste bruger 2 dage paa at bestige bjerget. Den foerste dag bruger man paa at gaa de 6 km til Laban [View Full Entry]

By Scary Israel
September 8th 2009

Kinabalu II: return to which mountain Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Mount Kinabalu

Bornean mountain ground squirrel (Dremomys everetti)

On the way back between Poring and Kota Kinabalu, I stopped off for a few more days at the Mt. Kinabalu National Park. Its good there because there are no leeches or mosquitoes. The only thing that’s of the bitey persuasion are these big horsefly type jobs with a really painful stab. It’s a fly of such a size that you can actually see it preparing its proboscis as it readies itself to jab you. They usually come in ones or twos so technically shouldn’t be as much of a problem as mosquitoes but I found them much worse because of [View Full Entry]

By twotravelbugs
September 5th 2009

Hot Springs and Hiking - around Kinabalu Park Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Mount Kinabalu

our snake

Tuesday 1st September 2009 cont. We left the Uncle Tan Adventure Camp at 10am on day three of the 3D/2N trip. So as you can see, its not really a three day jungle adventure! A quick ride up the river brought us back to the jetty where we were met by some 4WD utes, rather than the minibuses that we came in. A much better ride through the plantations, then we transferred to minibuses at the road. We had lunch at the operations base near Sepilok then walked to the main road to wait for the express bus towards KK. Luckily [View Full Entry]

By Scary Israel
August 18th 2009

The Mountain That Eats Money Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Mount Kinabalu

Bornean black-banded squirrel (Callosciurus orestes)

Because Borneo is so full of tourists it seemed best to do the thing that I don’t like doing, and arrange all my accommodations in Sabah in advance. So I booked myself stupid to make sure of getting to the places I wanted to get to, and got four nights at Mt. Kinabalu National Park, then five nights at the Danum Valley Field Centre, followed by two nights at the Kinabatangan River, two nights at Sepilok and two nights at Poring Hot Springs. There really are a lot of tourists on this island, and all the tourists themselves seem surprised at [View Full Entry]

By Ferdi and Talita
May 26th 2009

Day 119: Kinabalu National Park, Borneo Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Mount Kinabalu

02:30 and ready to go!

May 25th Veels geluk met moemie se verjaarsdag! Hoop ma geniet ma se verjaarsdag video boodskap. Summit morning. We slept pretty well but for some reason our alarm didn't go off at 01:30. Luckily the Polish couple we shared a room with had an alarm. We got up and went down for the first breakfast of the morning and by 02:30 we started our climb. We had to battle our way through clusters of really slow moving people. We couldn't get a proper rhythm with them stopping every second step. After an hour we had no one immediately ahead of us [View Full Entry]

By Ferdi and Talita
May 25th 2009

Day 118: Kinabalu National Park, Borneo Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Mount Kinabalu

She's gigantic...

May 24th We shared a nice big breakfast with our Dutch friends then went to meet our guide Nordin. At 8:30 we set of by bus (it cost extra of course) for the 4.2km to Timpohon Gate, the start of the route. Our climb started at 8:50. We only had to hike 6km today. The first 200m is downhill to Carson waterfall (small) but after that it's uphill all the way. After all the rain last night we expected a muddy mess but the trail was mostly steps that drained the water well. We made good progress and it wasn't too [View Full Entry]

By geoffandmazi
April 21st 2009

Mount Kinabalu Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Mount Kinabalu

Mount Kinabalu 061

Don't believe the travel agencies that tell you that you must have booked 6 months in advance to climb Mt. Kinabalu, we did it in just a few days. The key is to book your overpriced accommodation with Sutera Sanctuary Lodges (the company that has the monopoly on accommodation on the mountain) directly. Everything else can be arranged the morning of your hike at the Park HQ. Our good friend Laura who we were happy to be hangin around with because of her witty demeanor who went well with our smart alec comments laid out the pros and cons of climbing [View Full Entry]

By looking for my zihuatanejo
April 13th 2009

Steps, steps and more steps on Mount Kinabalu Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Mount Kinabalu

12. Celebrating climbing to the top of Mount Kinabalu

Day 283: Wednesday 8th April - The first of many steps up Mount Kinabalu When you’re climbing a mountain tomorrow, a fairly substantial one at that, one recommendation would be to get an early night. I was about to follow my own advice when I ended up talking to a South African, Steve until the early hours in my hostel last night. Sometimes it pays to not take the sensible option. Although I only talked to Steve for a matter of a couple of hours, I felt so comfortable in his company that I told him about my incident in Kuala [View Full Entry]

1. Me, Mikkel & Anne at Timpohon Gate at the start of the climb to the summit of Mt Kinabalu

3. Walking through the mist in the rainforest, Mount Kinabalu

4. One of the porters carrying 5 rucksacks!, Mount Kinabalu

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