JTS TRAVEL: Kinabalu National Park & Poring Hot Spring

Kinabalu National Park & Poring Hot Spring

Kinabalu National Park, with its size about 754sq km, it is the largest and most popular national park for tourists and locals in Sabah. The rainforest of Kinabalu National Park is filled with variety of fauna and flora. One of the main attraction for the National Park is the variety of orchids (some say, it's a botanical paradise) available there beautiful and colorful. Other attraction is the variety of mammal's species, birds (280+ recorded) and colorful of butterflies (290+ recorded).

The Poring Hot Spring (its part of Kinabalu National Park) main attractions are the natural spring where hot sulfurous water emits from the ground one may take a bath in it there's a few selection of bathtub to choose from, depends on your needs family or individual. The Canopy Walk (consist of a series of walkways suspended from trees above the jungle floor - approximately 60 meters above the ground, not for the faint hearted). Offering a monkey's eye-view of the oldest rainforest in the world. It’s a very interesting and exciting activity to do.

Itinerary: 0800hrs: Depart from YOUR HOTEL (kota kinabalu). Along the highway, stop at Nabalu Town for taking the mount kinabalu, handicrafts and meet the indigenous Dusun People. Continue to Poring, where the highlight is the canopy walkway, which provides the opportunity for a close-up observation of the rainforest at the middle canopy level. Lunch is served at one of the local restaurant. At 1330hrs, head for Kinabalu Park. At the park Headquaters, visit the Heritage Gallery to learn the biodiversity of this world heritage site. The trek into montane forest provides good opportunity for bird-watching or nature photography, or learning of the medicinal uses of the forest plants. Return to Kota Kinabalu by 1730hrs.