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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Perhatian kini tertumpu lawatan bersejarah pasangan diraja Britain ke Sabah esok


Putera William dan Kate Middleton
Putera William dan Kate Middleton
KOTA KINABALU - Semua mata kini tertumpu kepada lawatan bersejarah pasangan diraja Britain, Duke dan Duchess of Cambridge ke negeri di Bawah Bayu ini esok.

Rata-rata rakyat Sabah khususnya warga bandar raya Kota Kinabalu gembira dan teruja dengan berita kunjungan pasangan diraja itu, Putera William dan Kate Middleton yang bakal menjadi kenyataan.

Menurut mereka lawatan itu pasti memberi peluang kepada rakyat negeri ini untuk melihat atau menatap dari dekat wajah pasangan diraja yang terkenal itu.

"Sudah tentu peristiwa itu akan sentiasa dikenang oleh rakyat di negeri ini sampai berkurun-kurun...siapa tidak kenal pasangan diraja itu...ia adalah memori indah yang akan tersemat di setiap sanubari rakyat Sabah," kata Nirona Yon, pelajar tingkatan enam SM All Saints, dekat sini.

Katanya lawatan William dan Kate merupakan satu penghormatan kepada Sabah, dan rakyat negeri ini seharusnya berbangga kerana menjadi negeri pilihan sempena lawatan pasangan diraja itu ke rantau ini.
 
Mengikut atur cara program, selain bandar raya Kota Kinabalu, pasangan diraja itu dijadual melakukan lawatan ke Lembah Danum untuk melihat usaha pemuliharaan di salah satu hutan hujan tropika utama di Sabah.

Penjawat awam dari Sabah Shaaron Aloysius, 36, menyifatkan bandar raya Kota Kinabalu ini amat bertuah kerana turut disenarai menjadi lokasi pilihan pasangan diraja yang terkenal itu.

"Ini menunjukkan Sabah terkenal hingga ke pelusuk dunia (England) dan usaha-usaha penyelidikan di Danum Valley menjadi tarikan pasangan berkenaan untuk menyaksikan sendiri penglibatan para penyelidik yang turut dipercayai melibatkan universiti dari negara England itu," katanya kepada Bernama.

Sehubungan itu, Shaaron meminta rakyat di negeri ini agar tidak mensia-siakan keindahan khazanah alam sekitar yang ada untuk manfaat generasi akan datang.

Beliau yang berasal dari Penampang itu berkata Sabah harus dikekalkan sebagai 'pintu masuk' pelancong yang terkemuka berikutan negeri ini mempunyai kepelbagaian destinasi pelancongan menarik.

Seorang peniaga restoran Stephanie Albert berkata kunjungan diraja itu pasti menggembirakan rakyat Sabah yang berpeluang melihat tetamu istimewa itu dari dekat.

Katanya rakyat Sabah seharusnya sentiasa mensyukuri keamanan dan kemakmuran yang dikecapi kini memandangkan negeri ini semakin dikenali di mata dunia termasuk menyaksikan kedatangan pelancongan asing dan lawatan diraja ini.- Bernama

Putera William, Catherine tiba untuk lawatan rasmi


Putera William, Catherine
Duke Of Cambridge, Putera William dan Duchess Of Cambridge, Catherine tiba di Lapangan Terbang Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) disini, hari ini.- Foto Bernama
SEPANG - Duke dan Duchess of Cambridge, Putera William dan isteri Catherine tiba di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Kuala Lumpur (KLIA) di sini, bagi memulakan lawatan rasmi empat hari.
Malaysia merupakan destinasi kedua selepas Singapura dalam lawatan selama sembilan hari pasangan diraja itu, ke negara Asia Tenggara dan Asia Pasifik bagi mewakili Ratu Elizabeth II bersempena sambutan 60 tahun pemerintahan baginda.
Ketika pasawat yang membawa pasangan diraja itu mendarat di KLIA pada tengah hari, sekumpulan jurugambar media menunggu dengan sabar di tempat laluan kereta diraja.
Media sebelum ini melaporkan kira-kira 100 wartawan dan jurugambar asing dari United Kingdom, Amerika Syarikat, Australia, New Zealand, Jepun, Jerman, China, Perancis dan Indonesia tiba di negara ini bagi membuat liputan lawatan pasangan diraja itu.
Menurut kenyataan Kementerian Luar pada Selasa, lawatan itu bukan sahaja menandakan hubungan erat Malaysia dan United Kingdom, malah ia dijangka akan meningkatkan lagi hubungan mesra antara kedua-dua negara.
Pasangan diraja itu kemudiannya diiringi ke Putrajaya bagi mengadakan kunjungan hormat ke atas Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dan isteri, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, di kediaman rasmi Perdana Menteri di Seri Perdana, sebelum menghadiri majlis makan tengah hari.
Orang ramai yang berkumpul di lapangan terbang turut mengambil kesempatan merakamkan gambar pasangan diraja Britain itu.

Duke dan Duchess of Cambridge juga dijangka menghadap Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah dan Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Hajah Haminah, dan menghadiri majlis santapan diraja di Istana Negara, malam ini.
Sepanjang lawatan ke negara ini, pasangan diraja itu akan melawat Hospis Malaysia, pertubuhan amal yang menawarkan penjagaan paliatif profesional kepada pesakit menghidap penyakit hayat terhad, Taman KLCC dan Lembah Danum, hutan hujan tropika utama, di Sabah.
Mereka dijadual berangkat ke Kepulauan Solomon pada Ahad, untuk meneruskan lawatan.- Bernama

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Pulau Di Sabah | Sabah Island

Aerial View of Sipadan Island , Semporna

Getting There

From Kota Kinabalu, take a 55-minute flight to Tawau and enjoy an hour’s drive to Semporna. From Semporna, Sipadan is another 40 minutes by speedboat. Be sure to pre-arrange transportation with your respective resort/dive operator.


Dinawan Island, Kinarut

Getting There 

Pre-arranged tour is required through the tour operator

Pulau Tiga "Survivor Island", Kuala Penyu

Getting There
Kuala Penyu is 120km from Kota Kinabalu city. Take a bus from the Segama overhead bridge (next to the Post Office) and a one way-trip will cost you approximately RM18.00. A taxi ride from the taxi stand next to the Merdeka Field should cost around RM180.00 (up to groups of four) per way.
*Kindly note that boat transfers must be arranged through tour packages. Contact your travel agent for more information. 




Mataking Island , Semporna

Getting there:
The journey to from Tawau to Semporna by road takes approximately one hour. The transfer to Mataking by speedboat takes about 45 minutes 

Sipadan Island , Semporna

Getting There

From Kota Kinabalu, take a 55-minute flight to Tawau and enjoy an hour’s drive to Semporna. From Semporna, Sipadan is another 40 minutes by speedboat. Be sure to pre-arrange transportation with your respective resort/dive operator.


Dinawan Island, Kinarut

Getting There 

Pre-arranged tour is required through the tour operator

Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, Kota Kinabalu (Capital City)

Getting there

The Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park is accessible via 15 – 20 minutes speedboat ride from Kota Kinabalu. The departure and arrival point for the boat transfers is at the KK Ferry Terminal, situated next to the Malaysia Royal Custom Department. Boat transfers to the islands are available daily from 7.30am to 5pm.

Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, Kota Kinabalu (Capital City)

Getting there

The Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park is accessible via 15 – 20 minutes speedboat ride from Kota Kinabalu. The departure and arrival point for the boat transfers is at the KK Ferry Terminal, situated next to the Malaysia Royal Custom Department. Boat transfers to the islands are available daily from 7.30am to 5pm.

Mataking Island , Semporna

Getting there:
The journey to from Tawau to Semporna by road takes approximately one hour. The transfer to Mataking by speedboat takes about 45 minutes.

Mataking Island , Semporna

Getting there:
The journey to from Tawau to Semporna by road takes approximately one hour. The transfer to Mataking by speedboat takes about 45 minutes.

Turtle Island Park, Sandakan

Getting There
The boat from the Sabah Parks jetty at Jalan Buli Buli Sim leaves at 9.30am and the ride to Selingan takes an hour.

Turtle Island Park, Sandakan

Getting There
The boat from the Sabah Parks jetty at Jalan Buli Buli Sim leaves at 9.30am and the ride to Selingan takes an hour.

Turtle Island Park, Sandakan

Getting There
The boat from the Sabah Parks jetty at Jalan Buli Buli Sim leaves at 9.30am and the ride to Selingan takes an hour.

Turtle Island Park, Sandakan

Getting There
The boat from the Sabah Parks jetty at Jalan Buli Buli Sim leaves at 9.30am and the ride to Selingan takes an hour.

Tunku Abdul Rahman Park, Kota Kinabalu (Capital City)

Getting there

The Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park is accessible via 15 – 20 minutes speedboat ride from Kota Kinabalu. The departure and arrival point for the boat transfers is at the KK Ferry Terminal, situated next to the Malaysia Royal Custom Department. Boat transfers to the islands are available daily from 7.30am to 5pm.

Pulau Tiga "Survivor Island", Kuala Penyu

Getting There
Kuala Penyu is 120km from Kota Kinabalu city. Take a bus from the Segama overhead bridge (next to the Post Office) and a one way-trip will cost you approximately RM18.00. A taxi ride from the taxi stand next to the Merdeka Field should cost around RM180.00 (up to groups of four) per way.
*Kindly note that boat transfers must be arranged through tour packages. Contact your travel agent for more information.




Sandakan Memorial Day















Remember the fallen heroes of the Australian and British prisoners-of-war (POW) who have suffered and perished during the notorious Death Marches from Sandakan to Ranau in 1945. A memorial is held to commemorate the fallen heroes, on the 15th of August every year at the Sandakan Memorial Park, which was once the site of the Prisoners of War camp. Two thousand seven hundred Australian and British soldiers were taken to Sandakan to build airstrips. They were tortured, left malnourished and in poor physical condition. The soldiers were then forced to walk a torturous long walk to Ranau, a distance as far as 260km. Only six men survived. They managed to escape and were then fed and hidden by the locals. Every year, family members and friends of the prisoners-of-war, who perished during the Death March, travel to Sandakan to reflect and remember. This event also remembers local residents who risked their lives to help the POWs during this period. The poignant service starts as early as 7am where everyone relives the hardship of World War II. Special poems are being recited to remember those who endured the sufferings. A wreath laying ceremony, a floral tribute, which symbolizes how beautiful and yet short life is. A moment of silence to honor the departed as the service ends with the Reveille, which brings a profound meaning, a new beginning in a better world for the dead and to incite the living in their duty, a symbolic motion which means respect have been paid in remembrance of their comrades. August 15th is a date to remember as we pay accolade to those who perished during the infamous Death Marches. For further readings, please check on Sandakan-Ranau Death March dedicated website developed by TYK Adventure Tours Sdn Bhd.

Kundasang War Memorial | Taman Peringatan Kundasang,Ranau | Sabah











Established in 1962, this was one of the first memorials to commemorate the brave Australian and British Prisoners of War who died in Sandakan and during the infamous death marches to Ranau during World War II. For more info, please go to http://www.sabahtourism.com/sabah-malaysian-borneo/en/destination/49-kundasang-war-memorial/ .

Sandakan Memorial Park | Taman Peringatan Sandakan | Sabah







This site commemorates a tragedy and atrocity which struck Sandakan between January and August 1945. The Memorial Park witnessed the death of Australian and British prisoners of war held by the Japanese in the Sandakan POW camp, within the sight of Allied victory in the Pacific war. For more information please visit : 
http://www.sabahtourism.com/sabah-malaysian-borneo/en/destination/133-sandakan-memorial-park/

Longest Jetty, Kuala Penyu.