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How to Get from Kota Kinabalu to Brunei

Jasmine TamokAsia

If you are travelling in Borneo and want to get from Sabah to Sarawak, the natural way is to go through Brunei! We flew into Kota Kinabalu and decided to travel via 2 boats to get to Brunei. In this post, I am going to explain how to get from Kota Kinabalu to Brunei. From Brunei, you can take a bus onward to Miri if your final destination happens to be Sarawak. However, who wouldn’t want to stay a few nights in the wonderful country Brunei?

Labuan Ferry Terminal
I always travel with a bit too many bags

How to Get from Kota Kinabalu to Brunei

You Take 2 Ferries!

This is the best route to connect you from Kota Kinabalu to Brunei. All the blogs that I have read recommend that you buy tickets the day before. By the time we realized that the ticketing agent was already closed for the day—whoopsie!

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What to Do in Kota Kinabalu

Jasmine TamokAsia

Well, Daniel and I have had a really busy last week. Since I last wrote about our trip on Vancouver Island, we have had a birthday weekend in Whistler for a friend and just used the last few days in Canada to say a final goodbye to all our friends and family there. We arrived in Kota Kinabalu on Wednesday and left yesterday to catch two boats to Brunei.

Me walking around in a random hall in Kota Kinabalu with a bunch of seafood restaurants

We had a short stay in Kota Kinabalu since we used it as a base to plan the rest of our trip in Borneo. Kota Kinabalu will actually be the only region that we are visiting in the state of Sabah, which is located in Malaysia (on the island of Borneo). If you want to skip ahead to see what we did in Kota Kinabalu then click on the bulleted list below!

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