Kota Kinabalu

Kota Kinabalu is the capital of the state of Sabah on Borneo. With an estimated population of 532,129 in the city and 700,000 in the urban area, it is the largest urban centre in Sabah and the sixth largest in Malaysia. It is located close to Mount Kinabalu, the highest mountain in South-East Asia.

Langkawi

Langkawi is an archipelago of 99 islands in the Andaman Sea, some 30 km off the mainland coast of northwestern Malaysia. The islands are a part of Malaysia’s Kedah state, but are adjacent to the Thai border. By far the largest of the islands is the eponymous Pulau Langkawi with a population of some 45,000. The island is a declared duty-free zone.

Kuching, Malaysia

SarawakTourism.com
website of Sarawak Tourism Board
Kuching Forestry
forest management and conservation
rainforestmusic-borneo.com
Rainforest World Music Festival
http://www.borneointerhash2010.com
Sarawak Rainforest Interhash 2010
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Kuching
houses along Jalan Gambir
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Language

English is widely spoken so it’s very easy to get by. Though a few words of malay (Bahasa Malaysia) are always handy and will impress people. Malay is the official language but due to the multiracial character of the country you’ll find many languages spoken like Chinese (mandarin, cantonese, hokkien,...), Tamil among the Indians and several more languages on Borneo.

BOOK HOSTELS
RANDOM LINKS
Travelling by bus
bus schedules and routes by journeymalaysia.com
Encyclopedia.com.my
Encyclopedia of Malaysia is the largest Malaysian collaboration in the history of reference publishing
Utusan.com.my/
malay newspaper
WWF Malaysia
environmental conservation organisation
tourism.gov.my
government tourism website

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