Final Part: Mount Kinabalu Conquest Trilogy

Happy New Year Everyone!! I'm was in Hainan Island, China for my CNY family trip..sorry for the late final posting and as an angpow..lemme show you cool pics of the Mt. Kinabalu peak!..not gonna do lotsa captions neway...enjoy!!

That's sunrise! early in da morning from the peak!

That's me finally reached the peak!!

One of the many peaks..lower a bit from the 'Low's Peak'

That's us! Feeling happy when we reached the peak! I'm at da back!Along the peak

The view's so majestic

Mystic view

Heavenly view

This is John, our guide and porter

This is 'Dragon' another of our guide and porter..
Mind you that those guides are really strong..they can even offer to piggyback you up to the peak..as long as you pay them..and in return, they guarantee you that they will return you the money if they are unable to piggyback you up..Up to you to believe it or not..

On the way down..just from the peak..

There's only one rope..follow the rope or else..you might fall down

Along the rope..steep eh

it looks near..but it's very far actually..

And now let's take a look at the South Peak from different POV..

Steep POV

Far POV

Normal POV

Landscape POV

The whole view

Now..pics on the rock formations of Mount Kinabalu

Some of the vegetations around..

Donkey's ear

Dunno what name is this

Heavenly look with the clouds

Crocker range

The mists appear again



Some settlements could be seen up from here

Another peak..dunno what the name is

An avid photographer

Heavenly look..i just love this view..so breathtaking!






That's all for now..I hope you enjoy the view..I will be posting some blogs on CNY..the best CNY ever..or should I say..the best CNY experience can only be felt in China..and I really mean that!

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Part 2: Mount Kinabalu Conquest Trilogy

Here's the long awaited part 2 of my Mt. Kinabalu Trilogy series...We woke up at 7.30am early in the morning..prepared everything and then got to the restaurant for a buffet breakfast. at about 8.30am we headed to the main gate of the trek..and here it goes....

At Pondok Timpohon..one of the main gate for the trail to Laban Rata

A view of the hills and mountains from the top of Pondok Timpohon

The first slope at the beginning

Warming up...

The first waterfall around

Gearing up now for a more difficult trails

From this signboard, we have just reaced the 500m mark..5.5km more to go..

After nearly 1 km of hike, finally we've reached the first rest station..in this station there's toilet with flush and you can get water supply from a tank..Though it's untreated, you can still drink it because it's the water from the mountain and there's no agricultural activity..so there's no risk of water pollution.

Feeding the squirrels...they're damn fast

We're half way up..the trail changes as we're near the Laban Rata..and it gets steeper

Group picture together

One of the strong porter..most of them or all of them I would are Kadazan-Dusun..these strong people include female and male porter as well as guide..We had 2 guide with us and they carried our stuff for us with a price of RM8 per kilogram..not a bad deal..they claim that they can even carry us up to the peak if we want to..as long as we pay them..

Some breathtaking view as we move up..we're above the clouds and it's like heavenanother view......

Here's some of the beautiful vegetations that have grown while on the way up to Laban rata.

Nice pattern of this leaf

A bee came when i'm shooting this one..but it's too fast for me to get a clear shot of it

Wild cherries could be picked up and be eaten..taste nice too

The rest are flowers and plants..i don't really know their name though..any ideas or help?
So from here it's the end of the 2nd part...it took us between 7-8 hours to reach Laban rata..quite long eh..some was even later..we slept at Laban Rata at 7pm and we woke up at 1am to continue the journey to the peak. Keep tracking for the final part of the series.

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