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More and more Japanese Restaurants are opening up for business in Kota Kinabalu. At the concourse floor in 1Borneo Hypermall, two new Japanese Restaurants, Michi and Sushi King, have just opened their doors, giving KK Lites more choices when come to Japanese cuisines.

From the outside Michi has a simple deco, with black and brown long wooden panels in vertical rows and two glass windows about 10 feet wide on each side of the wall. The entrance is a narrow hall way. On one side is a glass cabinet decorated with many Japanese wines, Saki. And on the other side is a partition with vertical black wooded panels in between space. A simple white butterfly on top of the entrance is Michi’s logo.



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Fancy of having a five Star sleeping experience, but only paying for a one star hotel price? If the answer is yes, then Tune Hotel is the place. Savvy travellers who spend the whole day exploring, and only back at their hotel for a clean, comfortable, safe environment, and a decent night sleep will find Tune Hotel very pleasing indeed, and it does not burn a hole in their pockets.

How Tune Hotel keeps its price low is by getting rid of the full service, an extra which sometime guests don’t need. Room can be as low as RM 9.99, if guest books in advance. (more…)

Entrance to 1Borneo Hypermall

In the 21st century shopping lifestyle has become the number one activity for the city dwellers. Buying makes people happy, and it almost works as a distress theraphy. Come weekends and holidays, friends and families will visit shopping malls for a good time, be it hunting for a good bargain, pilling up the groceries, sampling different cuisines, as well as catching up with the latest movies. People will find hundred and one things to do at the mall.

To capitalise on this new shopping habit of the consumers, shopping malls have evolved into the ever more sophisticated hypermall. Today malls have retailing outlets segmentation, and this is a much adopted trend, proper planning of food courts and restaurants must be well thought of. Plus the latest entertainment centres to woo the energetic crowds, and fitness and spa centre are also included for the healthy conscious customers.

In 1Borneo Hypermall a star is born, and it claims to be the largest lifestyle shopping mall in Borneo Island. With over 600 retail outlets and a combined 140,000 square metres of retailing, entertaining and eating areas, shopping experience at 1Borneo has gone one notch higher. Shoppers will always find something new at 1Borneo Hypermall, as events and exhibitions are organised week in week out with the shoppers in mind.

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An overview from Rock-Faces of Kinabalu at Dawn

After a good night rest, and with the body strength restored, many climbers choose to get up as early as 2:00 am to prepare for the climb. The restaurant at Laban Rata opens at 2:00 am to 3:00 am, light breakfast, hot coffee and tea are served. Temperature at the outdoor is cold at 10C average throughout the year, and warm clothings are essential items.

Many climbers start the second part of The Summit Trail at 3:00 am from Laban Rata (3,272 m), which gives them about 3 hours to reach the summit before the magnificent sunrise. Whereas the slower climbers will go as early as 2:30 am to have more time to cover the 2.7 kilometres, while the fitter climbers can start a bit later at 3:30 am.

The first section of this journey is passing the steep rocky faces of Panar Laban. Climbers will have to manoeuvre through a series of wooden stairs and later rocky steps. This is normally done in pitch dark condition, therefore a flash light or head lamp will indeed be handy.

Many parts of the wooden stairs and rocky steps can be congested as the trails are only wide enough for one person at a time. The congestion is mainly caused by climbers with different level of fitness, and also because of the thin air at the mountain climbers have to huff and puff for air.




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pitcher plants (nepenthes)

The forests of Kinabalu Park are very rich in flowers and plants, an estimated of 5,000 flowering plants had been catalogue to present day, and many more new species are till waiting to be discover. Wild orchids are abundant, as many of the wild orchids can be seen growing on top of the tree branches.

One of the most popular plants at Kinabalu Park, has to be the pitcher plants and also go by the name Nepenthes. There are about 9 species of pitcher plants at Kinabalu forests, and most of the pitchers plants can be found at the altitude of 2,702 m to 3,200 m. A few species of the pitchers plants have the ability to eat small insects alive with its pitcher.

umbelliferae

The delightful rhododendrons has the biggest family of flowers in the Kinabalu forest, and they come in many attractive colours from white, red, yellow, pink, purple, to orange. Tree ferns also thrive in this forest.

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