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Kota Kinabalu and Surrounding Areas

Author :  Wendy Hutton

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Country
Malaysia
Publisher
Opus Publications Sdn Bhd, Sabah, Malaysia
ISBN 9789833987405
Format HardBound
Language English
Year of Publication 2010
Bib. Info vi + 189 pp.
Product Weight 908 gms.
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The first glimpse of Sabah for many visitors is the dramatic view from the plane as it approaches the airport o Kota Kinabalu, the state capital. As the plane reduces height, rice fields, scattered villages, a small coastal town and a lazy river of two spilling out into the South China Sea may come into view. Beyond the long string of sandy beaches, the occasional island is a smudge of green on a deep blue backdrop, while inland, beyond the rice fields, forested hills rise abruptly. With any luck, the awesome granite mountain after which the city is named might be glimpsed as the plane prepares to make its decent. Suddenly, the plane is flying over suburbs or over the city itself, before coming in to land just 10 kilometres from the city centre. Beyond the gleaming new International Terminal Building, Kota Kinabalu and the rest of Sabah await. One of the 13 states which make up the modern nation of Malaysia – Sabah – once known as British North Borneo—is still very much the embodiment of Borneo, with its astonishing variety of plants, wildlife and ethnic groups. Some visitors come on search of adventure, such as white-water kayaking, mountain biking, scuba diving or climbing to the summit of Mount Kinabalu. Others prefer to focus on bird watching or native orchids of rare beauty, while some visitors opt for sun, shopping and seafood. World-renowned locations such as the Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre and prime dive spots including Sipadan and Lankayan islands are on Sabah’s east coast. However, Kota Kinabalu and its environs have a wide range of attraction to enchant and excite. There are rainforests, mountains and fast-flowing rivers; islands with sandy beaches and coral reefs; rice plains and swamp forests which are home to Borneo’s strange Proboscis Monkey; quaint villages and contemporary shopping malls’ ritual; observances and nightclubs’ luxurious resorts with spas and golf courses, and villages home-stays where a whole new way of life can be experienced. This book offers an insight into Kota Kinabalu and its surroundings, places which can easily be reached on a day trip by visitors staying in the city (although many of these spots merit at least one or two nights’ stay). Major places if interest in Kota Kinabalu and the rest of the West Coast District are included, ranging as far north as Kota Belud and east to Kinabalu Park, and to part of the Interior District, including Beaufort and the Klias Peninsula.

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