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Tat007
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Apr 11, 2008
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The rooms were not overly luxurious, but adequate for the standard of the hotel. The restaurant offered good food and friendly service. A very attractive feature of the resort is the Orang Utan...
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Sabah doesn’t have many pagodas. One of them is in Tuaran town 45mins from Kota Kinabalu city. The Tuaran Pagoda is about ten-storey high. When you visit it, ask for permission from the caretaker...
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Be careful when you are doing your activities at the Tuaran beaches because at some parts of them, the floor drops suddenly. Also, the waves are quite strong here, as I wrote before. In fact, most...
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If you like water sports, you’ll agree with me that the crazier the waves, the better! I don’t know why but in the east coast of Sabah, Tuaran has the waviest beaches.It’s like mini Hawaii!...
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Okay, I’m becoming an expert in orang utans in Borneo here. But this time, I want to tell you about orang utans at the Tuaran beach. The primates can only be found at the Shangri-La Rasa Ria...
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If you want to be spoiled with choices of resorts, go to Tuaran, a district 45mins from Kota Kinabalu city. I love Tuaran because of this. Some 5-star resorts include the Nexus Karambunai Resort, the Shangri-La Rasa Ria Resort and the Sabandar Bay Resort, which line the Tuaran and adjacent...
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Speaking of Tuaran, a quant little town 45mins from Kota Kinabalu city, I remember their buffaloes. The buffaloes virtually rule the road in Tuaran, so if you happen to drive to Tuaran or pass through Tuaran to go the further districts, watch out for these cattle. I don’t know what’s wrong...
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One of the reasons I love visiting Tuaran is its abundance of traditional pottery factories. Tuaran is a district some 45mins away from Kota Kinabalu city. Take a bus marked “Tuaran” and pay a fare of about RM4 (US$1 = RM3.25). Most of the small pottery factories can be found along the main...
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This was a very Nice and Relaxing getaway in Kita Kinabalu, just thinking about it leaves me feeling nostalgic.
I stayed at Shangri La Rasa Risa during October and I think it’s a...
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