Gunung Kinabalu Trail
The ranau summit trail opened in 1 dec 2015 the kota belud summit trail opened in 9 dec 2016.
Gunung kinabalu trail. Kinabalu is a great mountain to bagg and the highlight is walking along the granite rocks near the top the trail is quite easy although there is alot of steps so coming down wrecks havoc with the knees its a 5 star mountain but i only rated it a 4 due to the red tape high costs and the over crowded summit experience its still worth while. And contains thousands of species of plants orchids butterflies and birds. 20 photos of the trail to the summit. Climbers will have to trek.
Timpohon gate 1 866m a s l kinabalu national park is the starting and ending points for all climbers. Within 24 hours you go up and down. Gunung kinabalu is a prominent mountain on the island of borneo in southeast asia. Additionally it is the first unesco world heritage site in malaysia.
There are two summit trails starting from panalaban to sayat sayat. The most prominent feature in this park is mount kinabalu the tallest mountain located between new guinea and the himalayas. Kinabalu national park also known as taman negara gunung kinabalu was established to be malaysia s first ever national park. Gunung kinabalu is situated in kinabalu national park 88 km 2 3 hours drive from kota kinabalu the state capital of sabah malaysia on the island of borneo.
For many travellers to this region climbing the mountain encompasses the great adventure of their trip. Both trails start from panalaban formerly known as laban rata and coincide at sayat sayat checkpoint and continue ascent to the low s peak summit at 4095 2 m. We 3 adults 1 kid with 7 year started to the summit of mt. Kinabalu is not that high only 4100m compare that to the kilimanjaro which is almost 6000m high and because the whole climb lasts about 24 hours.
The two trails meet about two kilometres before laban rata. The slope of mount kinabalu is home to a variety of flora and fauna. It is located in the east malaysian state of sabah and is protected as kinabalu national park a world heritage site. Kinabalu national park covers an area of 754 sq.
Its summit low s peak ist 4 095 metres 13 435 ft above sea. The standard popular ranau trail or the less trodden kota belud trail. Adapting to the height is not really an issue because mt. Climbers have the choice to choose between two trails when summiting mount kinabalu.