TOURISM

Events

Death March
Sabah Tea Adventure Race
Sabah Tea 24 Hours Non-Stop Mountain Bike Race 2004
Tam Kang high school Sabah tour 2003

Death March

To Re-tracing the Death March Track. The track cut for the death marches soon became completely overgrown and for sixty years defied all efforts to locate it. However, in August 2005, Australian investigative writer and historian, Lynette Silver, author of the internationally acclaimed book Sandakan - A Conspiracy of Silence , and Tham Yau Kong, a multi tourism award winner, who has almost twenty-years‘ experience in the industry, combined their considerable talents to identify the path taken by the prisoners of war. After sixty years, you too can now walk in the footsteps of the Death March heroes.

To experience walking on this historic track, TYK Adventure have specially designed the following tours:

Three or six-day semi-adventure tours; and
Eight-day challenge tours

Sabah Tea Adventure Race (STAR)

The 1st Sabah Tea Adventure Race 2003 is the first ever organized event in Sabah Tea Garden, Kampung Nalapak, Ranau and it will be made a yearly race with the intension of drawing initially local and eventually international participants to experience the unique local-made adventure race in which mountain biking is the key activity. It is organized by Sabah Tea Garden ~ Educational Holidays, and directed by the renowned mountain-biking specialist Mr Tham Yau Kong (TYK Adventure Borneo).

Sabah Tea 24 Hours Non-Stop Mountain Bike Race 2004

The whole idea of the event is not to determine who or which team will be able to complete the most number of laps non-stop for 24 hours but it’s a test of the individual’s physical and mental endurance. To date we have more than 10 teams signed up for this event and we are expecting another 30-50 teams to participate. Participants from all over has signed up for make this event a greater success, just to name a few, we have bikers from Labuan, Sandakan, West Malaysia, and expecting some teams coming in from Brunei as well. Apart from that, this event will also be a great opportunity for mountain bikers to gather and interact whilst sharing experiences.

Tam Kang High School Sabah tour 2003

The concept of educational tourism was first introduced into the tourism industry back in 1996 by the Ministry of Culture, Arts, and Tourism. The year 2003 marks an important date in this sector whereby Sabah Tea Garden has taken a bold step in accepting a maiden tour group, and it’s in line with our main objective - to be an educational tourism destination.