The North Borneo Beauty

Where is Ranau?

Ranau is my hometown A beautiful place where the amazing Mount Kinabalu lies..The hills, the flowers the people, Ranau is just amazing.

It is about 120km from Kota Kinabalu city, with quite an experience for the first timer to drive there One need to really drive carefully because its just a small highway that connected KK and Ranau. Despite of the road, you will be amazed with all the beautiful scenes throughout the road..Amazingly beautiful..

Local people in Ranau mostly ia Dusun. The highlander tribe who still live on the tree and eat human’s flesh..ha ha ha..well that’s what some people says, maybe they never heard about internet or even books , even newspapers excuse me, to have that thought in their mind..Seriously people, Dusun tribe is a normal people, who live like a normal people, go to school, finish their university, have a decent job and eat rice..he he..

Me myself is a proud Dusun. Ok well, you can go to a lot of places in Ranau like Kundasang, Bundu Tuhan, Poring Hot Spring, Sabah Tea, Luanti River to name a few. And there’s a lot (i mean a lot) of hotels, motels, resort and home stays there. You don’t have to worry about accommodation, there will be always enough

Tamu in Ranau-Fresh market

If you love to go to Sabah, and have no idea on how to go, just give me a buzz..I’ll help you as much as i can do

Cowboys’ Town, also known as Kota Belud is a small busy town located in north Sabah. The town is known for its Bajau ethnic and their horse. Actually there are two types of Bajau in Sabah,they are the West Bajau (deals on cattle and live on coastal area), and the East Bajau (lives on seaside and working as fishermen).

Kota Belud is the place where you can find the most coastal Bajau ethnic. So, how did they get their cowboys name? Hah! That’s the best part, just imagine the Wild Wild West, they are pretty much the same.. *LoL* they will ride on their horses and manage their cattle..with their boots and weapons ( but I don’t think they will use guns ) *LoL* and the boots..It’s just ordinary boots, not a John Deere boots or Twisted X boots..

Kota Belud is well-known among the locals for many things, such as, it is the gateway point to go to Mount Kinabalu (the highest peak in Southeast Asia). It is located in Kinabalu National Park (a World Heritage Site) in the east Malaysian state of Sabah. The mountain and its surroundings are among the most important biological sites in the world, with over 600 species of ferns, 326 species of birds, and 100 mammalian species identified. Among them are the gigantic Rafflesia plants and the orangutan. Mount Kinabalu has been accorded UNESCO World Heritage status.

The small town also popular with its Tamu or local open market. It is a place where all the local people from different places will gather and sell their things like foods, clothes, weapons, handicrafts and buffalos. This is the traditional way of shopping, and yes.. it’s fun to watch.. you can see people will try to bargain for the things that they want and the smile of satisfaction on their faces when they win the bargain game.