• Credit cards are not widely accepted outside Kota Kinabalu, so be sure to travel with cash.

• When visiting a longhouse, please respect people’s privacy and do not enter private quarters without an invitation.

• Make your presence known whenever you enter a village. Do not walk under a house or longhouse.

• Always remove your shoes before entering any home or longhouse.

• Ask for permission before taking photographs.

LOCAL TRANSPORTATION TO/FROM THE AIRPORT

Taxis are available from the airport into the capital city and major hotels.

By ROAD

Overland journey by bus or car is easy to arrange between Kuching (Sarawak), Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei Darussalam) and Kota Kinabalu (Sabah). Passports are stamped at all the borders.

BY RAIL

Borneo’s only railway service in operation is in Sabah. It runs from Tanjung Aru railway station in Kota Kinabalu to Beaufort and Tenom. The journey to Beaufort takes less than 2 hours, and to Tenom about 5 hours, the ride by railcar through the Padas River gorge to Tenom is particularly interesting to visitors.

BY FERRY

Ferry services between Kota Kinabalu and Labuan operate every day from 7:10 am to 3:00 pm

• Islam is the official religion in both Malaysia and Brunei. Proper dress and manners should be adhered to at all times. Before entering a mosque, visitors should remove their shoes and women should ensure that their head, knees and arms are covered.  They should not pass in front of people at prayer, and should not touch the Qur'an.

• It is impolite to point with your index finger (use the right thumbs instead) or to beckon someone with fingers and palm facing upwards. Instead the whole hand should be waved with palm facing downwards. Gifts, particularly food, are passed with the right hand.