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Climb Mount Kinabalu After The Quake in Borneo Sabah with Wilson Chin 地震后的沙巴,京那巴鲁神山之旅

Climbing the Mount Kinabalu are one of my bucket lists, I was so emotion when I am about to ascend to Low’s peak. Here is my experience on my climb to the highest mount in Malaysia, and some recommendation to help you on your climb there. Let the adventure begins… 登沙巴神山是我的遗愿清单事项之一,当天我还有几米就到山顶,我看着顶峰非常的激动,因为可以完成一个心愿。 这片文章记录了我登神山的经验,也列出一些建议给将来要登神山的你,可以用来参考。 走!冒险开始。。。 Day One 24th December 2015, Thursday, Weather: Sunny, 21 degree Celsius at Kinabalu Park 第一天 二零一五年十二月廿四日,星期四 晴天,气温廿一度,位于沙巴, 京那巴鲁公园 Our team leader Sui Chin sharing his previous experience on climbing Mount Kinabalu, this will be his 5th climb 戴着鸭舌帽的是我们的队长,水清。他拥有很丰富的登山经验,这次将会是他第五次登神山。 Buffet dinner serve at 7pm, all of us had a wonderful dinner. After the dinner, the park ranger also gave us a briefing about the routes info and safety precaution. 晚上七点,自助餐开始。用餐后,向导领队也给我们一些安全与路线的信息 The travel agency which helped us arrange this trip, presented our team a cake to wish us the best of

Borneo Highland Exploration Penrissen Summit, the Leeches Mountain

How to go here? 1st, please take note that there are no public transport to Borneo Highland Resort. You will have to chartered a taxi, or make new friend in Kuching, and ask him/her to drive you to Borneo Highland. We drive here all the way from Kuching town, took us within 2 hours to reach. How much is the entrance fees? We paid RM8 per person to enter Borneo Highland, and drive all the way up to the resort entrance. Where we will be greed by the security guard. Then, we paid another RM10 to use their car (compulsory) to go to the viewpoint of Kalimantan, Indonesia. That is where we start our hike. The young and brave Borneo Explorer, Wilson Chin (me) Do you need a guide? There are marking on the trees for you to follow, not necessary to hire guide. There are two route, 1st the longer one will lead you to Batu Panggah  (click to reach) then to summit which takes you estimate 3 - 4 hours from starting point to summit. 2nd route, from starting point bypas

Top 3 waterfall in Kuching to go with family and friends easily

Top 3 waterfall in Kuching to go with family and friends easily Santubong Waterfall Kubah National Park Waterfall Gunung Gading National Park Waterfall As an explorer in Kuchicng, one of the question that I’m frequently being asked is “Which waterfall can I go over the weekend with my friends/family” What people want are: Easily access within 1 hour Near to the place they park Have public toilet and bathroom Can barbeque Then I start to put on my thinking cap, and listed a few. Among that I chose these three as the top, and I hope that this can serve as a guideline for you when you visit Kuching, and would like to visit the waterfall. The Santubong Waterfall How to go? Santubong is located on the North of the Kuching city, with just 35KM away from town. A 45 minutes car ride to reach the Santubong Mountain. The entrance is before the Santubong resort, and on the right there will be a power station, the entrance is just next to the power station

Bukit Mas Sembiling Nature Reservre Tasik Mas Trail Limbang Sarawak Borneo

Brief intro of Limbang Due to its geographical location, the limbang town is completely cut off from the rest of #Sarawak road network. So limbang roads link to Brunei and Temburong. Exploring the town, its a vast develops town, and people here are utilizing the close diplomatic relationship with the neighboring Brunei county to do business. Good place to live... Bukit Mas is within the Sembiling Nature Reserve which is the back bone hill of Limbang town, its an easy 30 mins hike up to the summit from either the Bukit Mas, or Tasik Mas trail. How to get to this trail 1. Via the Bukit Mas route.  From Pandaruan road, go all the way torwards the Temburong direction, just right after the old abandon Limbang airport, and the army camp, you will see a tarmac road up hill to the telekom and mobile transmission towels. You can either park your car at the foot hill, or drive all the way up to the guard house near the towel, and start to hike from there. 2. Via Tasik Mas route