Discover Sabah

I received another email from our good friend, Cikgu Ismail yesterday. This time he shared with me his experiences with some local fruits and jungle resources after reading the red colored durian post few weeks back. In conclusion, there are 5 things that you should taste before you leave Kinabalu (according to Cikgu Ismail):

1. Buah Tarap (tarap fruit), Artocarpus odoratissimus (the Moraceae family)

I received an email from my good friend, Cikgu Ismail yesterday. He attached few photos on the interesting things that he found in Sabah, and not found anywhere else, especially from the Peninsular Malaysia. One of the photo that he emailed me was a red coloured durian – which currently claimed to be found ONLY in Sabah (correct me if I am wrong).

I still remember when I was packing my way up to Sabah, Borneo. One of my friend ask me, “Hey, I heard Sabah is still very primitive and people there still wears pieces of cloth. Is it true?”. It did cross my mind also, but after living here for the past 6 years, it is actually not true.

See what an Englishman have to say about Borneo.

I came across Kudat Riviera, a website that host an exclusive retreat boasting individual luxury villa residencies over a 10 kilometer coastline. I don’t have any connection with them, but I just want to show you their photo album of Kudat district which showed beautiful aerial view of Kudat.

http://www.kudatriviera.com/

Some of us may not know that Mount Kinabalu is managed and conserved by Sabah Parks, the trustee body which was constituted since 1962. The functions of Sabah Parks are ” To preserve for all time areas which contains significant geographical, geological, biological and historical features as a national heritage for the benefit, education, and enjoyment of the people”. Sabah Parks also support an ongoing research and conservation project in all the gazetted parks under the trustee.

Rafflesia is perhaps one of the two groups of plants that are associated with Kinabalu more than any others, besides orchids. The spectacular Rafflesia grows wild in these forests as well. A parasite, Rafflesia has no stem or leaves of its own and gets its nourishment from thread-like filaments spreading through the roots and stem of its host forest vines.

KUALA LUMPUR: Anyone planning to visit Sabah this weekend should consider coming to Semporna as this is where the sea faring Bajau community will be celebrating their legendary prowess at sea.

For three days beginning April 20, the sea gypsies of Sabah extend an invitation to the very cultural heart of the Bajau community and the Regatta Lepa XIV that showcases their unique wooden boats ‘Lepa’.

Read the story from New Sabah Times

Oopsss! I notice that I have not post any Tanjung Simpang Mengayau (aka The Tip Of Borneo) photos here in my blog. Anyway, these are the some of the photos that I found interesting to share with you…

Looks familiar to you?

The big globe at the Tip of Borneo.

Looks small eh? But compare it with the photo below.

I came across a news today about Tune Hotels, a “no frills” hotel, which operates similar like Malaysian “no frills” airline, Airasia. I was really surprise with the fare (from RM9.90 per night). You may think that it’s really cheap, but it came with a price. With that price, you won’t get any towels, soap, shampoo, no room service available, no telephones, television, radio, safe, mini bar, tea and coffee making facilities in the rooms and no wardrobes in any of the rooms but you can hang your clothes with the ready available clothing hooks. So you better think twice before you go an book a room in the hotel.