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Velvet moments: travel photo of the week – Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

The floating villages of Gaya Island, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. Read the accompanying post: ‘Plane Views: Kota Kinabalu‘ See other Velvet moments: Zanzibar, Tanzania Lago Grey, Torres del Paine, Chile Pompeii, Italy Bora Bora, French Polynesia Serengeti, Tanzania Sacred Water Temple, Bali, Indonesia Masaai Mara, Kenya Iguazu Falls, Brazil/Argentina Valle de la Luna, Chile Positano, Italy [...]

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Plane views: Mt. Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

Mount Kinabalu is the highest mountain between the Himalayas and the Snow Mountains of Papua. This granite massif rises majestically to a height of 4,092m or 13,435ft in the Malaysian state of Sabah, at the northern tip of the island of Borneo. Mt. Kinabalu is a local icon and revered by the indigenous people who [...]

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