MT KINABALU

MOUNT KINABALU

We drove up and up through the Crocker Ranges for about an hour with our ears popping. We passed terraced mountain sides with temperate (not tropical and not too cold) vegetables & fruit, and also patches of logging. 

I saw Mt Kinabalu in the distance not long after we left KK. (BTW, thanks Susie for telling me KK is also known as Api-Api), it was big then but by the time we got to its foothills it was enormous. 

It’s almost 5000m above sea level and is the biggest mountain in SE Asia, and it looked like it was trying to keep up with the fashion because it had different layers of cloud wrapping it, you know..... the layer look! The traditional belief is that Mt Kinabalu is where the souls of their ancestors dwell. 

Sabah is known as “the land below the winds” because it is below the latitude where there are cyclones and monsoons. I worked out that is is about 7 degrees north of the equator which is usually hot, but today Mum and I were wearing our jumpers because we are at an altitude of 1500 meters.