British North Borneo was part of the British Crown Colony up until just 1963 when it was then ceded to Malaysia, becoming the State of Sabah – also known as Malaysian Borneo. The island of Borneo itself, with evidence of human settlement some 30,000 years ago, is the worlds 3rd largest island, and is now home to the two largest of Malaysia’s 13 States (the other being Sawarak), the Indonesian Stat
e of Kalimantan and Brunei. Sabah is also known as Land Below the Wind – an ancient mariner term for being safely out of reach of the Typhoon belt, as well as being out of the Ring of Fire and out of reach from the threats of Tsunamis. Home to several world heritage sites, and a personal favourite of the the National Geographic Channel and world’s most famous television wildlife and natural history expert,
Sir David Attenborough, Malaysian Borneo, is a true treasure chest of natural delights and wonders
Dubbed the ‘Maldives of the East’, Malaysian Borneo is surounded with hundreds of spectacular and picture postcard tropical islands, all ringed with prolific coral reef and teeming with more underwater wildlife and fish species than anywhere else on planet earth. It is no wonder this region of the world is under protection from the World Wildlife Fund WWF and is known as the Coral Triangle. But the similarities with the Maldives or the Caribbean end just here – Visitors to Coral island in Malaysian Borneo need not be satsified simply with a dream island to relax, they have the unique opportunity to pay a visit to Borneo’s Jurassic Park for a day or so, and to bury themselves deep in the wonders of the Mount Kinabalu National Park World heritage site, and true virgin rainforest with rich and exotic wildlife rarely seen by few other than on the television.