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Mt Kinabalu, Kinabalu National Park – Malaysia

February 25, 2011 By James Clark 4 Comments

Kinabalu

Mt Kinabalu is in the Malaysian state of Sabah in Northern Borneo. You can see the mountain from Kota Kinabalu (about 80km away) and it’s even represented on the Sabah State flag. At a height of 4,095 metres, that makes it almost twice as high as the Australian continents highest peak (Mount Kosciuszko at 2,228 […]

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Flight Review: MASwings – Miri to Mulu, Malaysia

December 9, 2010 By James Clark 3 Comments

Flight Review: MASwings - Miri to Mulu, Malaysia

Airline: MASwings From: Miri (MYY) To: Mulu (MZV) Gunung Mulu National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia. While it’s not far from the city of Miri, there are no roads from Miri and the boat there is costly and slow. So the easiest way there is to fly. About MASwings […]

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Attending a traditional tribal wedding in Sabah, Borneo

December 2, 2010 By James Clark 16 Comments

Attending a traditional tribal wedding in Sabah, Borneo

Sometimes weird and wonderful things happen when you travel. I had a good feeling about Malaysian Borneo the moment I arrived in Kota Kinabalu and I ended up spending longer in KK than I had intended. I wasn’t in a hurry to leave and things just kept happening. On what was meant to be my […]

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