KOTA KINABALU / TIMPOHON GATE / ASCENT MOUNT KINABALU / LABAN RATA / TIMPOHON GATE / KINABALU PARK HQ / KOTA KINABALU
(0530hrs) Pick-up from your hotel lobby and depart on a 2 hours journey to Kinabalu National Park to register for the climb.
(0730hrs) Our guide will arrange for all necessary registrations, assign you a mountain guide and apply for your ID TAG.
Remember to wear your ID TAG at all times.
You'll then be transferred to starting point – Timpohon Gate – where your journey and quest to the summit of Borneo’s highest mountain begins!
The trek will pass by different vegetation zones from Oak and Chestnut to mossy and eventually to alpine type of vegetation.
Cut off time to reach Laban Rata rest house @ 3272m by 1230hrs. (Sabah Parks Regulation)
(1300hrs) Continue your trek down back to Timpohon gate.
The Timpohon trail will take you through mossy forest of mixed bamboos and tree ferns, Borneo’s most unusual pitcher plants, waterfall and even squirrels, tree shrews and birds that seem so unafraid of climbers.
(1600 - 1700hrs) Arrive at Timpohon Gate and transfer to Kinabalu Park.
Congratulations!
Transfer to Kota Kinabalu City. Journey takes approx. 2 hrs.