Most shopping centres offer a variety of different retail outlets, whereby each each shopping centre has its own uniqueness. You will be astonished at the wide choice offered! You can find almost anything you possibly could need, from souvenirs and antiques, over books to camping equipment, designer clothes, electronic goods and computers, and fresh foods. In shopping malls you also find pharmacies, food courts, one-stop photo labs and money changers, recreational facilities, hair dressers and centres for therapeutic massages as well as foot reflexology.

You'll find good hawker stalls on the upper floor of the General Market, Jalan Tun Fuad Stephens, and at the night market, behind the Filipino Market, Jalan Tun Fuad Stephens. For nighttime drinking , check out Crash, below New Sabah Inn, Jalan Pantai, a lively enough place which has a midweek bikini parade, and Rocky Fun Pub & Café, Lot 52, Jalan Gaya (until 2am), a good-time bar favoured by expats and Yaaha Cowboy Lounge, Block C, Asia City Complex, which, despite the hick name, is a superb bar with a food court alongside. Pick of the bunch, however, must be the no-frills Chinese and Filipino drinking hole, Fun Sen, a few doors down from the Diamond Inn. Guinness Stout is the staple here for a friendly, boozy, let-it-all-hang-out clientele.

For golf enthusiasts, there is no shortage of world-class courses to take in a round on the greens. The locations of Sabah's golf courses offer spectacular ocean and mountain views, which are absolutely unbeatable. more...

Sabah has an equatorial climate. Temperatures rarely rise above 32°C (90°F) except on exceptionally hot days, and along the coastal areas rarely drops below 20°C (68°F) at night. Although in the interior and at higher altitudes it can get quite cold at nights. Relative humidity is usually 85-95 per cent.