KK

A couple of weeks back I went to Kota Kinabalu and attempted an ascent of Mount Kinabalu. It was a failure.
The cyclone Nargis that swept across Myanmar/Burma (I make no political statement by mentioning both names...) continued its course across south east Asia and struck its last forces upon norther Borneo. Subsequently, the weather was crap, and I mean really bad. Usually, the peak may be closed for a day or two, but 5 days before we got up, nobody was given access to the peak and at least to days after there were still winds up to 35m/s, heavy rain, cold, slippery rocks and mist :P I bet the view from 4095 metres would have been great!

Anyway, we had to go down and were loaded for some white water rafting instead. Just that a few weeks earlier a train accident caused some serious troubles to Sabah's infrastructure and we couldn't get to the river we were supposed to. So in short, instead of splashing-n-crashing down a level 4 "WEEEEHHHHOOO" river we were paddling down a level 1 "row row row the boat, gently down the stream *yawn*" river! Luckily, it took 3 times as long time. Or by the way, was that luckily.

Shouldn't complain tho, the food in KK was almost as expensive as sgp, but not even half as good. Adriano didn't have any meals included in his trip (he thought he would!) and the trip can be summarised as a "mission incomplete", not to say failure...

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