Like most wet markets in Southeast Asia, Kota Kinabalu’s Central Market is most active in the morning and has more or less closed up shop by sundown. That’s when the nearby night market takes over. But on the late afternoon that Jess and I were walking by on our way to Kota Kinabalu’s Durian Street […]
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Pasar Terbuka Pekan Ranau Durian Market | Ranau, Sabah
l I’ve known for years that Ranau town hosts a durian festival. I’ve just never been able to figure out when. It’s frustrating. So Ranau has remained on the back burner of my durian crazed mind, a geographical tease with the strong promise of some interesting durians and a dominant Dusun culture that I’d bused […]
Mount Kinabalu Durian, Durio Kinabaluensis | Sabah, Malaysia
The jagged peaks of Mount Kinabalu in Sabah shelters one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. More species of plants and animals can be found on these steep slopes than in Europe and North America combined, many of them uniquely evolved to survive the harsh conditions and metal-heavy soils of the mountain. Including […]
Jungle Durians in Sipitang, Sabah
At last, at last, durians are beginning to fall in Borneo. The season, a few weeks later than usual, has started! Sipitang is a small town on the southeastern coast of Sabah, very close to the border of Sarawak and Brunei. Most tourists pass through Sipitang on their way to Long Pasia, a village in […]
Sandakan Town Durian and a River Trip
This blog post has been a long time in coming! We didn’t mean to leave you all in the dark. For awhile, it seemed that we had nothing interesting to write about, and then we were too busy! We landed in Sabah, Borneo, to discover that durian season had not started yet! Oh noes! Erratic […]
Touchdown in Borneo
The moment has finally arrived – Rob and I are in Borneo. When I first wrote the word Borneo on our travel itinerary waaay back last November, a little shiver ran up my spine. I’d heard of Borneo, in the way I’d heard of Pangaea and Middle Earth – exotic and very far away in […]
