The North Borneo Beauty

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Me and my 2 friends went for a short road trip from Kota Kinabalu to Ranau..And it was an amazing journey we are having lots of fun!

here’s some photos as we enjoying the journey!

Location : Moroli River Kg.Luanti Ranau
Located in Kampung Luanti, Ranau, 131 kilometers from Kota Kinabalu (2 hours and 40 minutes drive away); this fish massage ‘spa’ is managed by the Kampung Luanti JKK and lead by Mr. Jeffrin Majangki.

In the Local Kadazandusun dialect, ‘tagal’ means ‘no fishing’, and the main purpose of the ‘tagal’ is to preserve the environment as well as the ecosystem to benefit the future generation.

You can swim with the fish as well! That was a lot of fun!!

Tariffs

Getting There

Getting There

Will continue posting the rest of the journey!

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

Nowadays, people are so busy thinking about their look, not only women, but also men. Twenty or fifteen years ago, maybe men not really that obsessed about how they look. But now, men and women are both same.

Actually today i want to share with you some important facts about tomato. At my place, it’s easy for us to get fresh tomato, because it is one of the main vegetables that being planted in Kundasang (ranau) area.

I bet we all know that tomatoes are low in calories, an excellent and nutritional type of food for people that wish to follow a weight-loss plan.
Having high vitamin C levels that help the body increase naturally its immune system, tomatoes have evolved to become one of the most loved vegetables used in meal preparation worldwide.

In one study, 10 healthy women ate a diet containing two ounces of tomato puree each day for three weeks, either preceded by or followed by a tomato-free diet for three weeks. The researchers measured blood levels of lycopene and evaluated oxidative damage to cells before and after each phase. They found that cell damage dropped by 33% to 42% after consuming the tomato diet.. Hmm no wonder people in kundasang area looks young and healthy..so that’s the secret, tomato everyday..

And for those who are always busy or those who still don’t have the confidence to cook a ‘complex meal’ (meaning you have to prepare with CO2 fire extinguishers everytime you step inside the kitchen) maybe you can try this tips and idea for a simple meal..

Tomato diet Tips and Idea

Breakfast

Lunch

Snacks

* Cheese and tomatoes on toast
* Mackerel in tomato sauce

Want fresh tomato? Come visit Kundasang, Sabah..  

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses,
what might not the heart of man
become in its long journey toward the stars?~
~G.K. Chesterton~

Checking my friend’s Edith, facebook just now, i cant help but admire the photos she just upload. Its just amazing to see all the beauty inside the forest she went in.

Rafflesia
Rafflesia arnoldii is the largest, solitary, fleshy flower in the world. It is a parasitic plant that grows on the lower slopes of mountain ranges, in certain areas of South-east Asia. (Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo)

The first Europeans to discover the Rafflesia were Sir Stamford Raffles,(founder of Singapore) and Dr Joseph Arnold in 1816, near the town of Bencoolen (Bengkulu) in Sumatra and this particular species was named Rafflesia arnoldii in their honour.

Besides being the world’s largest bloom, it is a very strange and baffling plant. The Rafflesia has no specific flowering season. It has no roots, stem or leaves. In addition, each flower produces just one seed and this seed can only germinate if it succeeds in lodging itself in the tissue of the Tetrastigma vine, which crawls along the rainforest floors.

This is why the Rafflesia is usually floor bound. The flower extracts food from the vine by extending threadlike filaments into its tissue. Its penchant for attaching exclusively to the Tetrastigma partly explains why the flower is very rare.

After taking about 9 months to mature into a cabbage-sized bud, the plant opens. The petals, usually 5, sometimes 6, are red in colour and covered with lighter coloured spots. It only flowers for 5 to 6 days, before the petals blacken and the flower withers.

Although the Rafflesia can grow up to one metre in diameter, the flowers are usually half that size with the occasional monster-sized bloom appearing from time to time. The record bloom of Rafflesia arnoldii, stretched 91cms (3 ft) in diameter, 1.9 cms (3/4 ins) thick and weighed 7 kgs (15 lbs).

Interesting ain’t they?

Thinking to go Sabah? Check out the Reflesia Blooming time before you go, because its really worth to see this world biggest flower!