Touring Kundasang, Sabah…better than Cameron Highlands?
good morning everybody actually more accurately great morning because we just woke up to that incredible view because yesterday we spent the night in a glamping sort of igloo style accommodation incredible view we actually went to bed as the sun was going down and there was a double rainbow yesterday so we just checked out we've got all of our gear with us and we've sort of accidentally wandered into a market here there seems to be a bunch of rice in a banana leaf here everyone's crowding around and grabbing some rice some sort of nasi lemak or something they're lining up they're actually lining up for the nasa max so you can leave peninsula or malaysia into the island but people still line up our national mech some things don't change we got our new guide here taking us around for today from borneo trails super excited for this let's go for breakfast and maybe a coffee would be really really good so a little bit of an outdoor open market here sort of right on top of the plateau above our accommodation lots of different things what's this what's this oh this is like perfume homemade perfume or natural yeah honeydew rose david beckham yeah you made it yourself sure don't mind if i do thank you okay good job homemade very creative good job thank you okay guys with that it's time for some mccann mccann already tired had to walk up the stairs the backpack's on already tired hey shout out i got one of these does it say stifle in the back no all right time to eat my camera can let's go i tell you what that purple rice is something special i really thought they put dye to make it purple but apparently it's naturally purple and only available in this part of sava and there is a texture to the rice that is different than the rice i'm used to i would say the flavor of the rice is the same as rice flavor yes obviously in the dish it was cooked with vegetables so there's a flavor in the dish but i mean the rice itself it's like whole grain kinda still different it's some texture to it that's quite nice i would guess it's probably more healthy because it looks yeah also just the purple color looks visually appealing and makes it taste better i think it is okay guys now our next stop i'm super excited for this a little bit of the history portion so history teacher steve will welcome himself back to the vlog and we will learn something about the history of sabbah at the war memorial okay let's go volleyball okay good all right the kunda song war memorial so we started with a short video which was really informative and the story goes like this during world war ii japan was at war with british malaya which is modern-day malaysia and singapore now japan took a bunch of prisoners of war and in british malaya at the time was obviously british soldiers as well as australian soldiers a bunch of the commonwealth countries sort of fighting against japan now japan for some reason decided rather than keep these prisoners of war or rather rather than sort of execute them and kill them they decided to put these soldiers on a death march from one side of borneo to the other so there were 2 400 soldiers mostly australian and out of two thousand four hundred six of them lived so they've got this really powerful video they showed and i will say the only time i've seen people that skinny and kind of being tortured to death is in auschwitz in germa in poland i should say uh on the german part of world war ii so being canadian we don't learn much about the japanese role in world war ii in school because obviously canadian forces were fighting against germany so we learned about germany's atrocities and actually my grandfather was in the navy at the time and he was in the war protecting british merchant ships and battling against german u-boats but the story here is just crazy that uh japan acted so inhumanely and sort of forced these soldiers to on this six-day trek through the jungle they had malaria they had dysentery they had no food and they all starved to death except for six living soldiers and so for this reason they built this huge memorial here and my understanding is australia is actually the one paying for everything and maintaining everything because most of those soldiers were australian i believe we're on our way now to the main sort of memorial but just another example if you guys have seen many of our vlogs about the atrocities of war especially world war ii just what a horrible war and time period and just sort of unspeakable and overwhelming so we will uh and there you have it guys in the war memorial learning some pretty brutal history but still have the incredible views of borneo maybe giving us at least some thing to be positive about and be glad for so we will try and change gears from this part of the vlog into more exciting stuff obviously we'll save the obligatory uh whatever fun and happiness we're doing later on i will not be reflective of this uh terrible sort of war memorial i do love learning about history but it's not because it's good history just because it's very uh important to learn this kind of stuff here we have i'm dreaming of australia the land we left behind dreaming of the loved ones we could always bear in mind although it's only fancy our hearts within us yearn but we'll make up for the lost moments when to aussie we return uh nelson shorts who is actually one of the few survivors of the death march if i remember from the video correctly and he was singing songs for his fellow marchers as they were being marched through the jungle and dying and this would be in all the names of all of the people and look at it the list goes on and on and on 2400 started and six survived something like a 99.7 percent uh death toll and japan was not intending on transferring the soldiers to the other base they were really just tran uh planning on just killing them and sort of torturing before torturing them before they died so really dark and sad history although interesting for me because i really in canada we don't learn much about uh japanese role in world war ii in high school it's mostly about the germans and the nazis so there you have it guys the history section although heavy and sort of not fitting in with the rest of the vlog still very interesting for a tourist and from here we'll go and in search of some positivity and good vibes all right let's go oh my gosh it looks scary look at the tiny lines can you get out there pull the front wheel in the air oh no i'm there fail so hold the break where's the break okay for what it would be nice if there was a bell you know oh my god i'm scared maybe i won't bring this i'm scared to drop it let's drop it scary wait what if we get stuck in the middle hold on you gotta change gears as you're going you gotta change gears go faster no i still pull the front wheel in the air this is scary and whole leg oh my gosh oh you're good you're good babe you got this yo ivana you're killing it you're fast you're faster than me yo it's actually so scary i'm not gonna lie oh my gosh hold on hold on brakes brakes brakes brakes no it's actually so scary and it bounces a bit and i realized if that tire comes off the track uh we're in deep trouble so i i decided bouncing was the wrong approach but definitely keep it slow and steady as i'm sky biking first time sky bike you know first time sky biking i cannot look down i cannot look down down babe i'm sweating good job ivana i'm so scared okay let's everybody get to the comments it's a good job ivana because ivana has a severe fear of heights and she's fighting it right now you're fast i'm going as fast as i can you're the best ivana okay yo ivana one high five one high five no no no no no no no over there one realization overall sky bike good experience five star sky bike experience this is actually so scary because hands-free this makes it much more scary because you feel like you're gonna fall but it's pretty good yo if the tires popped out of the trap though oh my gosh i just scared myself thinking of that oh gosh okay okay don't think of i that it's a bad idea guys don't try this at home we made it we made it still waiting for my high fives good job okay good good job good job evan you did it you made it there and back my legs are shaking you got yellow legs i'm so scared i'm so scared can i bite so he's looking at you i'm very uncomfortable right now look at that oh snakes oh when it moves you can feel like the muscles in the oh gross what does it eat probably mice like rabbits no maybe full-size foxes look at the size of this animal it's anaconda thanks anaconda look at this it's right it's so weird i don't like it at all i don't like it at all okay you gotta move so fast i don't know which way it'll go even the tail has muscles look how strong it is it's so strong okay i'm done here all dad all right based on our first two days in sabah seems like a lot of chinese food here could be coincidence i'm not sure it's a sabbath thing or just what happened in our first two days but we had sweet and sour fish as well as cashew chicken i got a bug on my hand oh surprise bug this is an app first impressions of sabotage really small creatures grasshopper not sure what this is i will let him peacefully exist over here comes right back towards me um third glass of sabote really nice tea and today again the sambal was amazing oh yesterday was the first time i like summer blush and today was like kind of sour i don't know what what to make of it but it's sort of sour right yeah like stumble really really good and i think this would be local pineapple for desserts oh my gosh good pineapple you like oh gosh yeah this is good pineapple salmon just started just to start the dinner oh my gosh it's really good it's so juicy and not really acidic and sour just sweet and delicious less acid and more sweetness five-star pineapple oh check it out so this is this is dessert from the host because he knows we're doing youtube videos for buying dessert look at this green and of course some tea leaves on top look at that yo nice dessert it's the green tea from here babe oh this is green tea from here yeah we are in the people we are in a tea farm after all why are you surprised what are you surprised okay okay let's let's enjoy our green tea ice cream it looks so good look at that oh why not oh this is really good ice cream okay this is five-star dessert really this is really good wow yo you want to eat it it's so good okay it's so good it's so good right mmm it tastes like um very rich it's very rich it's very thick you can tell it's homemade and it tastes like tea kind of bitter but really really six star ice cream come to the sabbath farm or the ice cream alone and also for a few look at this okay guys shout out to that kid but welcome to the foot spa oh we're going to sleep our feet in the lake and the fish are going to nibble on them nibble on them now uh there's a big line up up front and we only have 15 minutes on our time slot so i'm not sure if people are coming here because of the genuine genuine health effects or for the interesting experience of having fish nibble on your feet for me it's the interesting experience of fish nibbling on your feet hey flo can the fish can the fish take off the the bad smell on my feet i see the fish still alive so it's fair river is going to bite my foot happily i hardly see this but oh my gosh this just got very scary oh my gosh oh my gosh yo these are big fish with serious teeth i think you're going to bleed what do you think bleeding though oh my god this one is giant she said completely don't pick the fishes they're running away from me yeah you guys put order man you put fungus bro yo that fish is the size of your leg oh my gosh i don't have any dead skin you don't have any dead skin all right let me let let the let the dead skin master come on it's running you can actually feel the does stick hurt like a pinch okay okay okay don't be shy don't be shy yo there's too many fish here for this i wanted like one or two fish to go there okay go go there's gotta be there's gotta be three hundred fish here oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god come on come on fishy nothing yet my feet so what happened to the 15 minutes come on steve yo one fish bit me and i didn't like it at all okay let me try again oh my god look at this one oh my god i don't like this one you get used to it you get used to it oh it's kind of hurting oh it's kind of hurting stop the one over here i can't do it anymore yo some of them are quite friendly some of them are like you're not boy look at this okay hold me okay so i don't fall okay got it you got it okay ouchie oh my god okay let to watch you all right check that one off the list experience completed the activity let's just talk about all the people here i did not expect the fish to be that big this big yeah it's like this big it's bigger than my foot look at it oh my gosh bigger than my foot i realized the smaller fish is the most suspicious same like dogs yeah smaller one is the one that barks all the time all right the little one is a little it's fun though okay so after this we're gonna body cam pull again let's probably kampung and let's go rest because i think i'm bleeding in my face you know it's safe it doesn't actually hurt that bad but sometimes they just get more and more aggressive some really is oh my god this little one yeah that little one just goes out you so hard his tail came out of the water he like he like head planted on your foot okay all right i'm good by the way it's a beautiful river and lots of people look at that they're just chilling look at we should get wow a chair you have no foot left would you be bones your skeleton foot they're so calm wow they're so calm look at your foot i'm not convinced of the health benefits of this look at the redness oh yo yo wow you're tough ivana i couldn't take it i tell you what though i have a blister on my foot and they were going after that hard so they are going after this loose skin you know you see oh yeah poof all right without further ado let's go to the belly camping check it out guys oh i try to go up there with the bus right now i decided to get out and show you guys ivana and i are calling this place kampung kampung which means village village because we are in the village past the village man there's no internet there's no service we are deep in the campaign yvonne and i have dubbed it kampoon kampung so hopefully the boss can make it but let's see oh it's okay scrape here right oh yeah okay here more okay okay you got it you can do it he's a good bus driver and that bus is pretty strong actually so i think i can make it oh man kenpoon kampung oh gosh why is this tipping sideways maybe no maybe cannot i mean over here is maybe even harder maybe we can put some rocks there some big rocks to make it make a make a bridge for your right tire it's right here man we gotta make a bridge this one's bigger this one first okay and then this one okay look at the bridge look at the bridge the bridge worked man we made it is this uh guest house no it is oh maybe right here the last turn oh good driving good driver good driver were you nervous yes we had to make a bridge with the rocks but we did it and now we're safe i tell you what guys stay tuned for tomorrow's vlog to see if we can get out of here yeah let's check out our home let's check out our room actually it looks like a super nice building so let's go check out our room oh there's cameras oh yeah youtube tv oh tv television oh okay okay what's it feel to me you're also feeding me right there youtube what are you doing yeah okay guys so pardon the darkness but it's a hill right now there's no uh electricity so we're just checking in super nice homestay very big and very spacious check the rooms make sure it's ready unfortunately no electricity but this is life in the campus okay so here we have kitchen stove sink uh rice pot walk i think here's our room let's run no oh no the sun is still out okay fantastic room hopefully uh actually please that would be nice but actually super nice and clean and fresh for uh camping homestay it's totally fresh and clean yeah uh good quality all right let's rest for a bit and then maybe we'll go to the campoon that's a good idea walk through the camping that's a good idea so much for camping walking tour guys a little bit of bad luck with the weather although i will say kind of good luck because if it was raining 20 minutes ago on the way in we would be on that hill with the rain we'd be still down there so the timing was actually kind of good that it delayed the way here was quite rough about one hour before we get here really really well but we made it a bit of a shame because i really wanted to go around meet people show them my skills saying bole ba calico and meet some locals and put a drone we saw a bunch of young kids playing separately back to across here to go infiltrate their game and show them what a max la can do with the sepak takrow with sandals on but uh stay tuned to this 14 day series because we'll have plenty of opportunities to do camping but as of right now it's time to charge our electronics and lay down oh no electricity we'll do our best what we can do with uh the campoon boy steve is feeling right at home all right uh we'll see you guys in the weather stops i guess okay no internet sunshine what you gotta do yes red one red one see it yeah yeah yeah dinner is served okay it's clearer from here oh yeah come on oh yes oh and it's okay okay one more one more here one more i got a new technique it's slop and grab come on come on boy okay okay spin it but then i gotta drop it okay it's hard right steve i'm surprised they all don't grow at the same time or maybe oh explode it no it's a good one it's a good one that's the best one good good oh nice thing you can get this one as well yeah yeah right there yeah don't fall to that okay ready ready it's coming it's coming off any second that was hard okay bouncing the way down all right good all right tell me what we will contribute this when they have dinner for us we'll have we'll prepare dessert we see guys desserts on the okay tell me if the fruits of my labor are the best best jamberry you ever had sweet and juicy sweet and juicy and the water is coming down again this is life in the camp all right next step okie dokie smokey time for mccann mccann what do we have here but banana leaf oh it's uh the rice rice yeah it's this is the meal rice hill rice yeah there's stuff in there no just rice just rice that's right okay and we have a natural way of how they pack their food oh it's not bananas or they have a sweet potato i think sweet potato there's nothing sweet potato in there yeah and i don't really like them like they're rice a little bit mushy yes it's not so firm the rice it's more mushy but this one is packed and a little bit from like food almost like a nice input where it gets squeezed together isn't it and then we've got chicken and potato uh fish and veggies curry chicken fish and this seems to be very common chinese okay let's see ivana what have you been your impressions of today today uh saba is like you can find everything here culture history nature adventure i almost died on a bike yeah that's the vlog title the time i almost died hey thanks to our guys by the way they're local people so that's uh oh this one is morocc is known as the head hunters oh gosh oh gosh only only compliments there are i think until 38 tribes right in summer uh yeah yeah what a great day we've had only our second day of our fourteen day itinerary the main tribes and here's the second largest tribe ah number one and number two yes number one in the three one and three okay okay there you have it guys today i was gonna say this saba sort of reminds me of brazil paradise extreme activities interesting culture natives sort of interesting many races of people similar to brazil in that sense yeah boom okay let's eat time for mccann mccann ivana says go closer i'm like dude let the camera go closer and they'll go yo whoa flying right now just drop this phone and scream like a girl and go lock myself in the bedroom under the covers mind you okay bye everybody thanks for watching
2022-06-08 02:08
