"Mountain climbing" Tomsontravels's photos about Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (climbing kk mountain)

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Preview of Tomsontravels'sblog at TravelPod. Read the full blog here: www.travelpod.com This blog preview was made by TravelPod using the TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow creator. Entry from: Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Entry Title: "Mountain climbing!!!" Entry: "With only 11 days in Sarawak, North Borneo, we thought we wouldn't have enough time to do everything. Seeing turtles being released and diving made us love this part of Borneo enough to come back for more, especially the diving. Somehow we had a few days left to kill and I perked up "lets climb the mountain!" which got a few funny looks from Son, mainly the 'are you mad' look. At 4095m above sea level and the highest mountain in south east asia it and with no training it did seem a little daunting but as it was in the top two most visited tourist sites in Sarawak behind seeing the Orang utans it can't be that hard... we thought! Getting there proved as difficult as the climb itself as we found ourselves dropped at a junction in the middle of nowhere, told that we could flag down buses going to the bottom of the mountain. The thing was that there were no buses, and the buses that did arrive were full, it being a public holiday. It was the middle of the day and there was no shelter and it was hot. Fortunately (or unfortunately for me) a man offered to take us to the mountain for a ridiculously overpriced rate (my pet hate are taxi drivers who always overcharge in what seems every part of the world) so we had to take it ...

"Mountain climbing" Tomsontravels's photos about Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia (climbing kk mountain)

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