Jacqkie | Travel and Lifestyle

Daren and his family came to KK for a good ol' vacation during the Christmas week. It was their first time ever in Kota Kinabalu, let alone in Sabah, so we were scrambling to think of ideas on what to do. Aunty didn't want to do any islands, so that's a major scrap of the bulk of things to do in KK, neither was she a very adventurous person, so we've decided to do some things that are a lot more mild, but significantly Kota Kinabalu/ Sabah as well. We started off the first few days with a visit to the handicraft market, and then subsequently heading to the apartment. We hired a car the next day, and figured one truly Kinabalu thing [without all the islands] to do was the Kinabalu park. That's about 2 hours drive away from the city itself. Which is still alright because KK is the gateway to some of the best things to do in East Malaysia. I drove the first car, while Daren drove the second. We stopped by at the Rumah Terbalik Borneo , which was the fifth of its k...

A couple of weeks back some friends and I decided to hike up Mt. Kinabalu. Although this was pre-arranged a couple of months before (I think), I kept forgetting the exact dates (because they changed a few times) we were going to hike up, and how everything's going to be sorted out. For training, I only did cardio in the morning about 2 - 4 km before going off to work. Loved the routine which I've stopped ever since because it took me about a week to recover/ recuperate from the hike and another week which was just pure laziness. Let me briefly explain to you how these hikings are different from one another. Firstly, there are two types of routes, via Mesilau and via Timpohon Gate (Kinabalu Park). Mesilau's track is 2KM more and are mostly off road which means there are areas with no proper climbing stairs. You'd have to climb up the boulders and rocks, at one point I even hiked using all four limbs, not kidding. 2KM uphill is almost equivalent of another 2 - 3 ...