Of Gods and Mountains
Mount Kinabalu The past 2 days were the most difficult of our trip so far. But that's what we expected. We planned to climb Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain not only in Borneo but in the whole of South East Asia. Fook Yuen breakfast We were picked up early from Hotel Sixty3, by Reynold, our KK area guide for the next few days, and Hanifi our driver (Hans for short), after having popped out to one of the local favourite breakfast spots: Fook Yuen. There wasn't a single item on the self service counter that a bona fide European would have recognised. Fantastic: we were finally eating like Malays. 😁 Totally yummy, if a little unorthodox for the only white faces in the joint. Orchids, and a pink imposter Day 1 was for acclimatisation, thus we headed into the foothills to the Kinabalu Nature Reserve, a rich tropical botanical garden, bursting with hundreds of different orchids, along with ferns and palms growing as epiphytes on their ...