{"id":1408,"date":"2013-02-13T02:38:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T10:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2013-02-13T02:39:39","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T10:39:39","slug":"kota-kinabalu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/2013\/02\/13\/kota-kinabalu\/","title":{"rendered":"Kota Kinabalu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our only stop in Malaysia was Kota Kinabalu<\/a>. This was a slightly unusual choice: if someone visits one city in Malaysia, it’s usually the capital Kuala Lumpur. KK is in Sabah, a province in eastern Malaysia, on the island of Borneo.<\/p>\n

We went really for three reasons: everybody said KL is really just another big city and that if we had been to Singapore, it wouldn’t be different enough to spend the time; somebody Kat was talking to one day said KK was nice; a friend of ours grew up in KK so that was a nice connection.<\/p>\n

On our first day there, we had booked a tour to take us up to Kinabalu Park. It was a nice day so we had good views<\/a> of the mountain.<\/p>\n

The tour took us up to canopy walk<\/a> near the Poring Hot Springs<\/a>. We opted to do the walk but skipped the hot springs themselves. That involved a bit of a hike up to the base of the walkway, so we got to see the mid-altitude jungle up close.<\/p>\n

After lunch, we headed up to the botanical gardens in the park. That was another walk through the jungle<\/a>. This was at higher altitude, and the jungle looked pretty different. It actually looked exactly how I imagined jungles should look.<\/p>\n

For the last night in KK, we went out to the Gayana Eco Resort so we could sleep in huts over water<\/a>. They were actually much nicer than I was imagining<\/a>. I think I was kind of hoping for something a little more rustic, but if it had been, I’d probably be complaining about that. There were little geckos everywhere<\/a>, so that made it feel a little rustic.<\/p>\n

Mostly, it was a night of the resort lifestyle<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After that, off to Manilla…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our only stop in Malaysia was Kota Kinabalu. This was a slightly unusual choice: if someone visits one city in Malaysia, it’s usually the capital Kuala Lumpur. KK is in Sabah, a province in eastern Malaysia, on the island of Borneo. We went really for three reasons: everybody said KL is really just another big […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1412,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gregbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}