A sunset stroll along the jetty on Lankayan Island, one of the most idyllic island getaways in the eastern Malaysian state of Sabah. (All photos by Ron Emmons except where indicated)
Hiking, diving and wildlife watching in Malaysia's easternmost state
KOTA KINABALU, Malaysia -- Agnes Keith, an American author who lived nearly a century ago in Sandakan, in the British protectorate of North Borneo -- now the Malaysian state of Sabah -- had a way with words. She described a 1937 party to celebrate the coronation of Britain's King George VI thus: "There are the pagan tribes of Borneo and the ladies of [the colonial town], drinking tea and eating cakes together ... And there in that scene too fantastic for fiction breathes the real heart of a non-racial empire that mankind could, if he would, build today."
