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Abstract
Naturalistic tour to discover the Kinabalu National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000, renowned for its extraordinary biological diversity, both in terms of ecosystems and flora and fauna.,
Characteristics
Group tour in English + Italian-speaking interpreter (see departure calendar). Private tour English/Italian speaking guide, daily departures except on venerdì. Include meals (v. the fee includes)
departures are guaranteed (min 2 participants). Subject to availability
Itinerary
Giorno 1 — Kota Kinabalu
After immigration formalities, passport control, baggage retrieval, and customs, you will be greeted by a local guide and transferred to the hotel., the rest of the day available, lunch and dinner free. Accommodation Nantucket Inn Anacortes,
Giorno 2 — Kota Kinabalu
Breakfast, At 9 a.m., meet your guide at the hotel to visit the interesting Mari-Mari Cultural Village. The village is located not far from the city of Kota Kinabalu and operates as an open-air museum where you can observe the ways of life of all the major ethnic groups in the state of Sabah, including the Murut (former headhunters), Bajau, Kadazan-Dusun and others. You can visit the traditional houses belonging to the various ethnic groups and see live examples of food still cooked in bamboo, traditional fire-making and traditional dances. Simple but tasty lunch in local style. At the end of the visit, at around 2 pm, the guide will take you to the Klias River, with its mangrove ecosystem and low jungle rivers. In just over two hours, passing through villages and oil palm plantations, you will reach the river for a coffee break with fried bananas and local sweets, before setting off in a motorised boat to travel up the river in search of proboscis monkeys, primates endemic to Borneo. The excursion also offers the opportunity to observe birds, macaques and, in some cases, water buffaloes and monitor lizards. At sunset, return to the pier for a local-style dinner and then take the boat for a short trip on the river to witness the wonderful natural spectacle of hundreds of fireflies adorning the mangroves like Christmas trees.
At the end of the tour, return to Kota Kinabalu, arriving late in the evening., Pernottamento a Kota Kinabalu,
Giorno 3 — Kota Kinabalu → Kundasang
Breakfast, Check out of the hotel. At 8 a.m., meet with the guide at the hotel and depart for a day dedicated to visiting the mountainous areas of Mount Kinabalu, declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000 for its high concentration of biodiversity. We will climb up the eastern ridge of the mountain until we reach the typical Nabalu market, an excellent vantage point for viewing the mountain, a large, jagged granite block 4,095 metres high. We will then continue to the other side of the mountain, descending to an altitude of about 600 metres, where we will reach the Poring Hot Spring area, natural outdoor hot and cold water springs built during the Second World War by the Japanese during their occupation. The tropical nature of this area is different from that of the first side: the trees can reach a height of 60 metres and the vegetation seems to dominate the landscape! We will have a local-style lunch and then set off on a short, easy walk to reach four short suspension bridges 30 metres above the ground (Canopy Walkway) and some small waterfalls. On the way back to the city, if we are lucky, there will be a short stop to see the Rafflesia, a rare plant endemic to rainforests, parasitic, without a trunk, leaves or real roots, which can reach 1 metre in diameter and weigh up to 11 kg.
The Rafflesia is considered the official flower of the state of Sabah in Malaysia and its image is also featured on local banknotes. In the late afternoon, we will arrive at the resort to check in to our rooms. Dinner and overnight stay at the Kinabalu Pine Resort in Kundasang.
Please note: we recommend leaving your bulky luggage at the hotel and taking only what you need for one night with you. We also suggest bringing light long trousers, comfortable trainers, a hat, a light poncho, insect repellent and T-shirts for the various excursions., accommodation Escursione a Grasse con Degustazione di vino,
Giorno 4 — Kundasang → Kota Kinabalu
Breakfast, Stop at the typical markets of Kundasang to reach Mount Kinabalu Park, where you will visit the Botanic Garden and then take a nature trail that winds through the typical vegetation of low-mountain tropical forests, where you will have the opportunity to observe different species of orchids, wild ginger, mosses, ferns, carnivorous plants such as Nepenthes, medicinal plants, rattan and many more: a truly unique biodiversity. Local-style lunch at the park and then a visit to the interesting Botanic Garden. At the end of the excursions, return to Kota Kinabalu, arriving in the late afternoon. Dinner at leisure., accommodation Nantucket Inn Anacortes,
Giorno 5 — Kota Kinabalu
Breakfast, At the locally indicated time, transfer to the airport only with a driver, without assistance., end of the tour,
Notes
- ROOMS: Triple rooms are always double rooms with an additional bed, often smaller than the two existing beds; triple rooms are subject to availability at the time of booking. Requests for smoking rooms, connecting rooms, adjacent rooms, higher or lower floors, etc., are always on request and not guaranteed.
- TRAVEL DOCUMENTS: Participants must ensure before departure that they have the necessary and valid documentation for entry into the countries visited during the tour.
- HOTEL FINAL LIST: indicated in the travel documents
- HOTEL, CHECK-IN: as a rule, rooms are assigned starting from 2-3 pm; any early check-in is at the hotel's discretion. The request for a guaranteed early assignment requires booking an extra night prior to arrival.
- HOTEL, CHECK-OUT: The room must be vacated in the morning, by the time indicated by the hotel; the surcharge for late check-out is equal to 50% of the extra night for check-out by 6 pm; for check-out after that time, an additional night will be charged.
- HOTEL / ITINERARY, CHANGES: The organizing company reserves the right to modify the itinerary and/or hotels with others of similar or higher category, means of transportation, etc., if required by unforeseen circumstances and necessary for the safety and normal continuation of the trip. Furthermore, when it is not possible to accommodate all participants in the same hotel, the group will be divided among different hotels of equal category.
- TIMETABLES: departure times are indicative and depend on the number of hotels from which pick-ups are scheduled for each day; the pick-up start time indicates when customers should be ready in the lobby for departure; in hotels reached last, a wait of at least fifteen minutes or more compared to the indicated time is likely. The return times to the hotel are purely indicative and variable depending on a considerable number of factors including the time dedicated to visits and the intensity of traffic.
- PUNCTUALITY: we recommend respecting the scheduled times. No refunds are provided for services missed due to customer delays.
- TIPS: not included, at the discretion of the tourist
- MEALS: not included unless specified.
- REFUNDS: There are no refunds for parts of the tour or excursions not carried out due to force majeure; in any case, no refund is due to the customer who decides to interrupt the trip or stay.
- TRANSFERS: not included unless specified; if included, they are exclusively for/from the hotels scheduled for the tour on the days of the tour's start/end; in case of extending the stay, for transfers to/from other hotels, or for arrivals/departures from other airports, a supplement applies. The supplement always applies if the passenger is traveling alone. Requests for booking transfers not included or for different hotels must be received at least 3 weeks before departure, or an additional urgency supplement will be applied.,
Starts from
5 days / 3 nights - from Kota Kinabalu to Kota Kinabalu,
Meals
Legend: B breakfast, L lunch, D dinner,
Price includes
Transfers and tours by bus or minivan with assistance and local guides, local guide during visits, entrances, visits and excursions as per the itinerary, accommodation at the scheduled hotel (or similar), meals: breakfasts, lunches, dinners,
Price does not include
Opening fee and Zero Risk coverage, medical-luggage-cancellation insurance, unmentioned meals, beverages and extras in general, Christmas or New Year's Eve dinner (mandatory supplement), tip, janitorial work, flights and airport taxes, everything not expressly mentioned in "The fee includes",
Important notes
Flight to Kota Kinabalu (not included): it is possible to arrive at any time., flight from Kota Kinabalu (not included): it is possible to depart at any time, Comfortable shoes, rainproof clothing (K-Way or waterproof poncho), and insect repellent are recommended., The scheduled times are indicative; the exact times will be confirmed locally by the guides., Group tours have a maximum of 26 participants (especially in August). The following vehicles will be used for the tour: up to 10 people: 1 12-seater minivan; up to 16 people: 2 12-seater minivans; 17 people or more: 40-seater bus. Groups of up to 16 people will be divided between the two vehicles and accompanied by a single local Italian-speaking tour leader and a local English-speaking guide. On longer journeys, there will be stops where the local Italian-speaking tour leader will alternate between the vehicles. Only once the final destination, or the destination of greatest interest, has been reached will the guide bring the groups together to begin the tour.,
