A week in Kota Kinabalu and Sepilok: Sabah, Malaysia

KennethT · 2025-01-19T01:37:30Z

2 hours ago, Kerala said:

Wonderful. I really do want to get to Malaysia some day.

I'm glad about that. We fell in love with this region (Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia) years ago and keep coming back. It's such a great mix of cultures. As of now, we have much less Malaysia experience than Singapore or Indonesia - even though I feel like we've just scratched the surface with those too.

KennethT · 2025-01-19T01:39:29Z

45 minutes ago, weinoo said:

I love a good wet one!

Ha! They're absolutely necessary in countries where you could be washing your hands with water that potentially has typhoid or who knows what in it. The wipes are better than normal hand sanitizer since it will also clean dirt off, not just kill most things in the dirt. However, beware, hand sanitizers are not very effective against norovirus.

KennethT · 2025-01-19T02:05:54Z

Breakfast the next morning - just before checking out to go to our next stop.

Prata, savory donut, fried chicken, sambal and gigantic pile of ikan bilis for my wife

Prata, donut and chicken curry

teh tarik

last of the great pineapple

A dish full of a different chicken curry (lot of curry leaves)

A dish full of lamb curry (no coconut milk)

chicken

Lamb

The airport in KK is modern and quite nice for a small city. And since we were traveling within Sabah, we had to go to the "domestic" security area. If we were going to peninsular Malaysia (like to Kuala Lumpur), we'd have to go to the International one as Malaysian Borneo is still somewhat separate. Of course, no one told us this until we were leaving the International security area and we had to turn around go back through the whole security area and back to the front of the airport. To be fair, it wasn't labeled as such but it was the security area that was directly ahead... turns out that the domestic one is downstairs and kind of out of the way.

Once we got through security, we had a small snack: