 Traveller's Tales: Advise for travellers in Sabah, Malaysia
Heed our handy tips on safe travel in Sabah, Malaysia. You may read about travel warnings, health, what to wear, travel with kids, travel with pets, local weather, local government, medical information and traffic information in the area.Also, you might want to read our
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| T Ione yerburgh |
11 February 2001 |
Stayed at Jesselton Hotel, The - Sabah, Malaysia.
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KK an interesting town for a couple of days as find feet in Sabah. Excellent restaurant for fish called Port View not far from The Jesselton. Also visited Sukau/Sepilok/Sandakan and Mabul/ Sipadan . Very good diving but glad we saw a little bit more of the country than just the sea.
Malaysian Airlines was slightly unpredictable for scheduled internal flights and if making your own arrangements you should leave plenty of time to connect to international flights (we made ours by about 10 minutes having given ourselves 3 hours). Out of 6 internal flights 1 one was cancelled one delayed by 1 1/2 hour and one could not land for 45 minutes because of adverse weather (a bit scary !). Also stayed at Sipidan Water Villas Mabul which was fantastic and Sukau River Lodge which was fairly basic but well run. The journey to Sukau is quite an adventure. (10 hours from KK by plane and 3 local minibus' .last 42 km appears impossible as road is appalling but somehow the bus only got stuck in the mud once.)Be warned there are no direct minibus' to Sukau from Sandakan (Rough guide says that there are) also almost impossible to get back from Sukau by public transport. (we took lodges' taxi at cost of US$60 cf cost of minibus' $5).
If going to sukau take a tour as cheaper than doing it on own. Special internet rate at River lodge was higher than lodge's normal rate and once cot of boat trips included total cost for 2 was about £100 higher than tour cost even taking into account fact we had got ourselves there (they agreed to reduce price when I pointed this out to them ).
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