Mount Kinabalu is not a technical climb, means that you don’t have to bring any special equipments or apparatus to help on your climbing. It’s a straight forward climbing, and some climbers considered it as a hiking activity.

There’s always risk on any climbing activities. As long as you are moving up or down (against or towards the gravity), you will definitely exposed to danger of falling, which may leads to injuries. Depending on your condition, falling down can be really trivial but sometimes can be dead serious.

Coming to Sabah and climbing Mount Kinabalu sounds really fun, but what would you do when “worst case scenario” happen?

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Lets say while travelling with a public transport from Kota Kinabalu to Kinabalu Park, you involved in an unfortunate event - a landslide happened a few kilometers away from Kinabalu Park entrance, and the bus that you take fall into a 30 feet ravine. The stretch from Tamparuli to Kinabalu Park is well known to have intermittent landslide, especially so during wet season.

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A new way to promote Accommodation Reservation Online - having a blog to promote it. Accomline Blog is a good example for accommodation provider to market the services through blogosphere. It provides accommodation news, updates, travel news and stories in a blog presentation to promote their online accommodation reservation services worldwide.

After surfing Accomline Blog for few minutes, I notice that it has few good articles about accommodation stories. “How to shut the kids up while traveling” is a good example that I could relate as I face similar difficulties while traveling with my kids. It makes sense to me that traveling with less disturbance from the kids will reduce my stress and make the journey more enjoyable.

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I usually goes to Airasia.com and sometimes Malaysian Airline System (MAS) websites to look for flights, going to and fro Kota Kinabalu. The problem with these individual airline website is that we cannot compare the flight tickets, side by side (although I know that Airasia is always cheaper). A good travelers search engine like Sidestep.com, provides flights from both airlines side by side in one page, enabling you to compare the price differences at real time.

When you’re traveling, your vacation room becomes a home away from home. You want accommodations that are safe, clean, and comfortable, all for a reasonable price. If you are planning to spend sometimes in Disney World for your holiday, you may want to read this:

Bank on vacation homes. We all like to be pampered now and then. Still, spending $150 a night to sleep in a hotel seems ridiculous when vacation homes offer rooms for half the price. And it also comes with complete family amenities like kitchen and pools for you and your children.

Planning your vacation includes deciding what to take with you and what to leave behind. To make the vacation packing easier (and cheaper) for you, then you might have to consider this:

1. Lighten up. Luggage that’s heavy before you put anything in it will be a nightmare to transport when it’s full. Invest in the lightest bags you can find. Your clothes and other personal items will more than make up for the difference in weight.

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One of the problem that I notice for foreign travelers to Sabah is the difficulty of connecting themselves to outside world using phone. Mount Kinabalu is a place where you can actually “roam” with your mobile phone, but not all travelers come here with one. The options for them to get connected is still using the good old land lines, that are easily accessible via public phones which are available on the park (even up to Laban Rata). However, the cost for a normal rates o call from Laban Rata to United States for example, can be really huge. (Bear in mind, internet connectivity is almost impossible from Kinabalu).