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After paying the entrance fee, and walk through a small hut that acts like a time travel portal, visitors are transported back in time to a period that resembles the British era of North Borneo from 1930 to 1950. Upon passing a small garden with its well kept lawn, a beautiful and charming British style colonial house appears and it is begging for the visitors to come in for an historical experience. This house,“Newlands”, was once occupied by the Great American writer, Agnes Keith. She even wrote her award winning book, Land Below the Wind which described her Borneo experiences, at this very house. Apart from Land Below the Wind, she also wrote two other books, namely Three Came Home, and White Man Returns. These three books help to promote Borneo and in particularly Sabah tremendously to the Western World. Restoration of the house was started in 2001 by Sabah Museum, and in 2004 the house was opened to the public. In honour of Agnes work the Malaysian government has named the house Agnes Keith House, a special tribute to this award winning American authoress. (more…)

drunken prawns

Bah Kut Teh literally means meat, bone and tea. If one lives in Malaysia long enough, he or she would know that Bah Kut Teh is a very popular and yummy dish indeed. Most Bah Kut Teh restaurants would serve pork and pig’s internal parts with Bak Kut Teh soup poured on to them. Good Taste Bah Kut Teh (BKT) restaurant in Sandakan town, does one better than the rest with a special twist in seafood Bah Kut Teh. Since Sandakan is famous for its fresh and cheap seafood, Good Taste BKT is taking full advantage of this. Numerous magazines and newspapers have already written about their wonderful experience eating here, and Good Taste BKT restaurant is not shying away from this by displaying these articles on its walls. With its unique dishes like fish slice BKT, fish balls BKT, cuttlefish BKT, and prawns BKT, Good Taste BKT is really one of the must try restaurants in Sandakan.

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an orangutan on its way to the feeding platform

The future looks grim and the present looks cloudy, this is the plight of the orangutan. The forests in the world are shrinking rapidly day by day, even in the the last frontier of Borneo. The orangutan is loosing their home land (habitat) to the continuous clearing of the forests to what man called human development. Deforestation due to illegal logging and the continuous land clearing for the oil palm plantations are taking its toll on the orangutan population in the wild. The scientists estimated that there are about 11,000 wild orangutans left in Sabah, this might seems a rather hopeful piece of news. But orangutan has the slowest reproduction cycle in the mammals world, and most of them live a solitary life, their species survivor is really left in our hands. Conservation is the key to that goal.

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sulug island

Located at the southern most tip of the Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, and furthest from the Kota Kinabalu city coastline, Sulug Island is the least visited islands in this marine park. Sulug Island is also the second smallest in this islands grouping, with an area of just 20 acres. Gazetted into the Tunku Abdul Rahman Park in 1979, Sulug island has remained more or less the same, since there is completely no development here. Compare with the near by Manukan and Mamutik island which have all the essential human comfort like restaurant, canteen, souvenir counter, toilet, and shower area, Sulug island has none at all. What you see at Sulug island is nature at its best. It is also the only island in Tunku Abdul Rahman Park with no entrance fee.

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