As with any review, one’s impressions is of course dependent on his or her experience while at the local. This will differ from person to person and depends on a number of factors… weather, the tour guides, activities chosen, etc. Hence, I leave with you the disclaimer that this is based on what I experienced during my stay in Kota Kinabalu. If you read the last few blogs, my overall impression of Kota Kinabalu as a vacation locale...

Every now and then, one makes a jewel of a find. For a traveler not familiar with the local food outlets, you never really know what’d good or bad unless you venture to experiment. Scourging for breakfast led us to the safe option of McDonald’s. Dinner would be a pleasant adventure. One I would repeat for 3 meals during my stay in Kota Kinabalu. On the second night, I went out on my own to explore the city. When one goes around on foot,...

We started off on our island hoping to two destinations Palau Manukan and Palau Sapi. We were picked up a few min before 8:30am and proceeded to the dock at the Magellan Sultera Hotel. We were given our standard Life Vests, Mask-Fin-Snorkel sets, then we boarded our boat. As we cast off… here’s a view of the hotel from the boat We are headed… there! Don’t ask me which, but I am sure we are not headed to the middle...

After breakfast, we went back to the hotel and waited for our friends to get ready. First things first, we arranged for our tours for the next two days. Due to the late start, we scheduled the Lok Kawi Wildlife Park for the afternoon, then scheduled Island Hoping for the next day. Needless to say I had big expectations for Kota Kinabalu. We walked around a bit to waste time before our 1pm schedule for Lok Kawi. First stop, the grocery to...

Above is the view from my hotel room (photo stitch)… I had great expectations for the next two days We were off on a slow start on Friday morning. Femee and I got up fairly early to hunt for breakfast and we ended up (of all places) McDonald’s! Not that we weren’t adventurous, but there wasn’t much open at 8am (that we were aware of). I had a Sausage McMuffin, Hash Brown, and a Milo! They gave us free Tiger Cookies… your...