Kota Kinabalu to Mt Kinabalu

We caught an Uber to the airport to pick up our hire car. The Uber was the princely sum of AUD$3 for the 15 minute ride!
We then drove south from Kota Kinabalu before turning back in land. This was a much longer route but gave us a better feel for the place. The route skirted around the Crocker Range. Having said that it did pass over its southern end with some steep climbs.
West of the Crocker Range is much drier as it is in the rain shadow.
We passed through a number of rice paddies along the way.
The last section of our drive was a short cut and the road was mostly bitumen, but with quite a few short sections of gravel where the road had been washed away. There were also many sections where the road was subsiding and slowly slipping down the hill. Not a road to drive in the dark!
We got to our digs in the mid afternoon. They were a significant downgrade from our previous accommodation. Going from 5 star to -2 star!
We went off to the Mt Kinabalu Park office to check out hiking trails for the next day and went round a very good museum on the local tribe’s traditional customs and the fauna and flora.
As our digs didn’t have a restaurant we went into town and found a good Chinese restaurant.Read more