Mount Kinabalu

Ocean deep, mountain high....

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June 17th 2007
Touching down in Kota Kinabalu (KK) in the Malaysian side of Borneo we both were struck at how clean and tidy everything was. After a month in the Philippines we had become used to seeing everything being cobbled and bodged together - for instance, the sink drain in one of our rooms was the top half of a soft drink bottle funnelled into a hollow piece of bamboo. All the cars in the Philippines we ... read more

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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 Fe... ... read more