Transport in Malaysia:

Rent a Car. Sabah has a very good network of well-marked roads in the rainy season but may be flooded. In Sabah driving on the left. To go to places not reached by public transport you can rent cars at various locations in the city.

Taxis. There are taxis at the airport, major hotels and other points of Kota Kinabalu. There are metered so you have to ask and negotiate the fare before starting the journey.

Ships. Kota Kinabalu has two ports, the Port and Harbour Kota Kinabalu Sepanggar Bay: the first is especially for loading of containers while the second serves as a base to the Royal Malaysian Navy and is both oil loading terminal.

There are regular boat services to the offshore islands. In Sabah the mountainous interior has inhibited the development of transport depending on what kind so that the rivers, which were the traditional means of transport, are still important today as a means of transferring some of the domestic population.

MAJOR TOURIST SIGHTS

KOTA KINABALU.

Kota Kinabalu, formerly Jesselton, is the capital of the Malaysian state of Sabah. Located on the northwest coast of the island of Borneo is both the capital of the West Coast Division of Sabah. It has a population of 473,200 inhabitants in what is considered the city and about 900,000 in the metropolitan area. It is the largest population of Sabah and the sixth in Malaysia. Facing the South Sea of China and located in the shadow of Mount Kinabalu, the city stretches for miles along the coast and also inland.

HISTORY.

At the end of sigloXIX the British North Borneo Company was interested in establishing colonies in North Borneo, now Sabah, which in 1882 created a small settlement on the island of Pulau Gaya at that time inhabited by the indigenous Bajaus. This settlement was destroyed by the Bajaus in command of his hero and rebel leader Mat Salleh in 1897. Given this initial failure, the Company decided to reopen the settlement in a safer place on land opting to do so by a fishing village named Api-Api which had already been chosen by the railroad company as the source of the line of North Borneo Railway. The name given to the site chosen was the Jesselton in honor of which he was director of the railroad company.

Jesselton became the largest shopping center in North Borneo as a hub of trading of rubber and rattan (a kind of palm), honey and beeswax. The train carrying all these products from within the new port.

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