Poring Hot Springs
A bit further from Mt. Kinabalu are the Poring Hot Springs. We thought about passing on this since we were tired of riding, but both were keen to do the jungle canopy walk which is at the same location, so pushed on. The hot springs themselves were a series of 'bathtubs' which didn't seem overly clean to us. The couple of hot pools had a layer of something undesirable on the bottom and the other pool was cold. So, needless to say, we didn't spend much time here - too bad because a soak would have been nice!
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