A WALK ON THE WILD SIDE
Dec 01, 2018
4 minutes
BY JAMES LOUIE
come across as counterintuitive while on vacation, but at Shangri-La’s Rasa Ria Resort & Spa—built along a sweeping expanse of cream-colored sand outside Kota Kinabalu—there’s good reason to do so. I’m standing on the raised wooden deck of the Ria Lookout, 90 meters atop a jungle-clad promontory and an easy half-hour hike from the hotel proper. Beside me, ranger Laslie Christianus bin Mudin excitedly identifies the call of a pied oriental hornbill, pointing out a distant black form perched in the treetops. We marvel at the sun rising from behind the unmistakable silhouette of Mount Kinabalu,
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