Hi,

Glad to have you again in our 9th Mount Kinabalu Borneo.com Newsletter. This edition of newsletter will hove around our Kinabalu Blog, and things that happened for the past 1 month.

For the past few weeks, there have been a buzz in the news about El Nino. If you still do not know, Mount Kinabalu flora and fauna were affected during the last 1997-98 global drought that is caused by El Nino. Now, they are predicting that the phenomenon will come back to South East Asia - starting from March this year, and could last for about 9 to 22 months.

Are we prepared?

My good collegue, Dr. Ravi Mandalam, went up to Mount Tambuyukon last year. He wrote a good article about his climb with two other friends, Dr. Liaw and George. What he brought down was stunning. He took a lot of photos on Kinabalu, from a totally different view.

Read the story from the website

Or, if you want to see my 4 Mount Kinabalu climbing name tags, its here.

I found a fairly good website (Malaysian based) that offers a good Mount Kinabalu climbing package. It also offers visitors to the website to become their affiliates, where they will give you some comission (in MYR) if you could promote their package to your friends and families. It’s one of the few good ways of getting some pocket money to pay your bills.

Viewmalaysia.com

I also put some tips on jungle trekking, if you decided to do some trekking in one of the trails in Kinabalu Park. If you want to plan for your 2007 trip to Sabah, I put a link for you to download the annual Calendar of Events. It list out all the events that will be held this year in Sabah. Last but not least, if you want to know how many mountain here in Malaysia that is climbable, check out my post here. Do you know that 3 of the highest mountain in Malaysia is situated in Sabah?

I hope you enjoy this edition of newsletter. For those who celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year, Happy New Year to you! Hopefully we will be more prosperous in this Year of the Golden Pig!

Regards,

Ruhaizad