Climbing Mount Kinabalu in Sabah Borneo

Mount Kinabalu graces the beautiful state Sabah in Malaysia at 4095.2m above sea level, it is increasing popular for tourists and the locals to try and climb it. Me and a mate had a chance to climb it a couple of months ago and lord, it wasn't cheap and easy but it was definitely worth it. An experience you want to tell everyone and when you look back, you'd say "I did it". Booking the trip. You will have to engage with tour operators and the prices varies for the locals vs internationals, which accomodation you choose, which trail and how many days you want to do the climb. Only 165 climbers allowed per day, so book your trip way in advanced. We chose a 2D1N trip mainly because, we know it is a bad idea to prolong sore legs, so we just wanted to get over it asap. The walk started for 4-5 hours through Timpohon trail (short distance) up to Laban Rata. Mesilau trail is longer and nicer though. Stayed over at Laban Rata for the night and woke up super early in the morning to ascend to the top. Took about 2-3 hours and you want to get there with your sore legs before sunrise!! The descend took about 6hours probably full of curses. I did..cause it was a painful descend, my legs were in pain but hey, I didnt prepare enough for it. My bad. Whilst descending ,you get to see beautiful flora and fauna and mountain worker running down with a huge gas cannister on their back, climbers luggages..😌😌 there was I, suffering 😁😁😅 The climb was amazing ,right..i got to see all these pretty and amazing new things in the forest through the trail, it was exciting.w e were lucky enough to see Rafflesia up close. The descend was a pure torture..we had beers, ling massage and laughed about it in KK after it was all over. I will not do it again but i encourage you to experience it at least once. It was a great memory, a great experience and mind you, i almost give up during the last ascend. but i didnt. everything was unbelievable up there. it felt like i wasnt on earth. never knew i would manage to climb it. #hiking #nationalpark #awesomepic #climbing #mtkinabalu