Welcome to Kundasang, Sabah!! The place where you can find one of the world oldest rainforest and the highest mountain in south east asia. Sitting approx. 500metres from sea level, fresh air are guaranteed!!
It is also the place where climbers will have to go in order to conquer Mount Kinabalu which claims the highest mountain in south east asia region which stand as high as 4095m above the sea level. Chinese in Sabah call it "shen shan" aka, God Mountain, such a name comes from the meaning of Kinabalu, which in Kadazan language stands for God. They, the Kadazans, believes that their ancestors' spirit will go to the mountain after death.
Despite of countless legends and myth being told to the younger generations, the Mount Kinabalu was itself, an inactive volcano. However, its lava still lies beneath which provides hot springs in Poring. However, the interesting part is, Mount Kinabalu has many faces, viewing the mountain from Kota Kinabalu would be different from viewing it from Poring. Certain faces has its story, like there's one i know of was "the waiting pregnant women" I'm not very sure of which side you have to be in order to view it, i got to ask my dad for it, you could actually see a pregnant women actually laying on top of the mountain, tales were there to say that she was made pregnant by a chinese merchant (old old days, where chinese sail to borneo for hasil hutan), he promised that he would come back from china for her, so she climb up to the summit of the mountain to see if there is any ships, but not surprisingly, the merchant never came back.
Tales aside, but the mountain do has some unexplainable myth which relates to those who got lost in the mountain, if you guys still remember the most recent one was the caucasian siblings. I've climb the mountain before, seriously, i can't see there is any way you could get lost along the trail, it's simply unreasonable, but somehow, some folks blame it to the mountain gods, hence, the rule of mountain hiking must be followed there ie. no calling the real name and sort of.
Anyway, to those who wish to climb the mountain, you will get a certificate of one of the two types, one was the one where you only reached Laban Rata, which was the last check point before reaching the summit, the second one was, the cert to be given to those who reached the summit. however, bookings of guides and accommodations in Laban Rata is necessary.
It is also the place where climbers will have to go in order to conquer Mount Kinabalu which claims the highest mountain in south east asia region which stand as high as 4095m above the sea level. Chinese in Sabah call it "shen shan" aka, God Mountain, such a name comes from the meaning of Kinabalu, which in Kadazan language stands for God. They, the Kadazans, believes that their ancestors' spirit will go to the mountain after death.
Despite of countless legends and myth being told to the younger generations, the Mount Kinabalu was itself, an inactive volcano. However, its lava still lies beneath which provides hot springs in Poring. However, the interesting part is, Mount Kinabalu has many faces, viewing the mountain from Kota Kinabalu would be different from viewing it from Poring. Certain faces has its story, like there's one i know of was "the waiting pregnant women" I'm not very sure of which side you have to be in order to view it, i got to ask my dad for it, you could actually see a pregnant women actually laying on top of the mountain, tales were there to say that she was made pregnant by a chinese merchant (old old days, where chinese sail to borneo for hasil hutan), he promised that he would come back from china for her, so she climb up to the summit of the mountain to see if there is any ships, but not surprisingly, the merchant never came back.
Tales aside, but the mountain do has some unexplainable myth which relates to those who got lost in the mountain, if you guys still remember the most recent one was the caucasian siblings. I've climb the mountain before, seriously, i can't see there is any way you could get lost along the trail, it's simply unreasonable, but somehow, some folks blame it to the mountain gods, hence, the rule of mountain hiking must be followed there ie. no calling the real name and sort of.
Anyway, to those who wish to climb the mountain, you will get a certificate of one of the two types, one was the one where you only reached Laban Rata, which was the last check point before reaching the summit, the second one was, the cert to be given to those who reached the summit. however, bookings of guides and accommodations in Laban Rata is necessary.
Mount Kinabalu in dusk! Just nice, the mountain was caught between both different light.
This was shot in the morning, the sky was very nice but a little too bright, it rings a bell in me! TIME FOR HDR!!
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the 1st photo is really amazing. Nice pic
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