|  Leisure cycling not only
provide a different experience to tourists in Sabah but it also
offer an opportunity to get closer to nature as well as the local
friendly native people. In comparison to traveling by coach, you
can get down easily from bike to talk to a farmer working in a rice
field or may be face-to-face encounter with a civet cat!
Annually about 300 to 400 cyclists from aboard and in Sabah enjoy
various cycling tour packages available that can range from 2 to
10 days duration.
Mountain biking in Sabah started about 9 years ago and ever since
then a series of competitive mountain biking tour have taken place,
this include Tour De Borneo and Kinabalu International Mountain
Bike Race. With encouraging interest from foreign tourists, mountain
biking tours become very popular, in 1999 alone a total of 200 British
solo mountain bikers come to Sabah in seven groups to bike a distance
of 350 km from Kota Kinabalu to Sandakan for their fundraising project
for the deaf in their country. The following year, they returned
with 120 mountain bikers. For a full cultural experience on mountain
bikes, the best tours are around Kota Belud – Land of the Cowboys
of the East and Kudat where you can ride out to meet the Cowboys
and their ponies or ride to the doorsteps of the Rungus longhouses
in Kudat. For more challenging mountain biking experience that will
take you through uphill and downhill single tracks, the foothills
of Mount Kinabalu especially from Kota Belud to Kundasang are the
best locations.
Sabah- A land so blessed with nature resource and eco-treasures
set to satisfies all your biking experience and preference!
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