Kiulu River Water Rafting Day Tour from Kota Kinabalu
Description
Depart from the city hotel in the morning. The journey will take about 1½ hours drive to Tamparuli area. As you arrive at the ending point, stopover for light refreshment and participants can change clothes. After that, continue up to the starting point at Pukak or Sukang.
Tour Options
Itinerary
0830hrs depart from the city hotel. The journey will take about 1½ hours drive to Tamparuli area.
As you arrive at the ending point, stopover for light refreshment and participants can change clothes. After that, continue up to the starting point at Pukak or Sukang. The river guide will allocate all rafting equipment e.g. helmets, PFD, paddles, raft, while participants can apply sun block lotion and take pictures or walk on a suspension bridge. Safety briefing is given by the river guide before you get into the river. After the briefing, start raft down for about 2 hours to the ending point (Kiulu Town) covering approximately 7 to 8 km. After changing clothes and a sumptuous lunch is served by the riverside. In the afternoon, return to Kota Kinabalu and arriving at around 1530hrs at the city hotel.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
Free hotel pick up & drop off from your hotel located at Kota Kinabalu City Centre (1km radius). An additional surcharge for hotel pickup outside 1km radius from the city center is applicable and payable on the day of your activity.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Please take note. Actual pick up time based on hotel location
- 1 Borneo Hotels & Outskirt Hotels Pick up & drop-off additional charges applied. Additional USD 10-15 per person
Reviews(18)
Excellent, fun, adventure. Well organised, knowledgeable, and well-trained yet fun guides.
Thank you for your great feedback! We’re delighted to hear you had an excellent and fun adventure and that our guides made the experience both professional and enjoyable. We hope to welcome you again soon!
A fantastic trip with a great crew. Lilo was our guide and had a great sense of fun and lots of knowledge to share to. This is a really easygoing trip so ideal for anyone considering it for families with small children. The river is grade 1-2 depending on whether it’s wet or dry season so it’s an easy paddle. We also had a lot of swimming time in the river too and watched Sabah drift by. A great way to spend the morning with a lovely lunch at the end! Thanks team Riverbug 🙌
Thank you so much for your wonderful review! 🌟 We’re delighted to hear you had a fantastic trip with our crew and that Lilo made the experience fun and informative. It’s great to know you enjoyed the easygoing river adventure, swimming, and the relaxing views of Sabah, followed by a lovely lunch. Your kind words mean a lot to the whole Riverbug team, and we hope to welcome you and your family back for another adventure soon!
The guide was such good company He is an asset to your business Give him pay rise or shares in the business Great lunch as well
Thank you so much for your wonderful feedback! We’re delighted to hear you enjoyed the tour, the lunch, and the great company of our guide. We’ll be sure to share your kind words with him — they will mean a lot! Hope to see you again on another adventure soon.
I took my daughter and her friend to do the white water rafting from Kota Kinabalu. White water rafting is quite a stretch to be honest. It's a very leisurely boat ride down a very calm river! The scenery was beautiful and if you weren't expecting white water would be a lovely little river trip. However, I do think it was quite expensive for what we actually got and the river was quite dissapointing in the thrills expectation. Of you have very very young kids (under 7) it would he a nice introduction perhaps to rafting but skip it if you have teens!
Thank you for your feedback. We're happy to hear you enjoyed the scenery and peaceful river ride. We understand it may not have met your expectations for a thrilling rafting experience, and we appreciate your honesty. This trip is indeed more suited for families with young children or those looking for a gentle introduction to rafting. We’ll take your comments into account to help improve how we describe the tour. Thank you again for sharing your thoughts!
Very pleasant experience. Very knowledgeable guide who catered the ride to the specific people in each boat. We were 3 boats rafting the same river, and our guide asked how we would like to take each section of the river (aggressive or peaceful) Our boat was able to take a more exciting route while boats with young kids took a calmer ride. About a 1 hour ride from Kk. Food and company were both really good
Thank you so much for your kind review! We're happy to hear you had a pleasant experience and enjoyed the flexibility of the rafting trip. It’s great to know our guide made the ride fun and suitable for everyone. We’re also glad you enjoyed the food and company! Hope to see you again on your next adventure!
Fun guides who tried to enhance the experience there’s parts to swim parts to jump into the water and my favourite bit was going down the rapids out of the boat. The lunch provided was tasty the only bad thing was the changing rooms were very basic and dirty, no shower just an empty room with dirty chair
Thank you for your review! We're glad you had fun with the guides and enjoyed the water activities and tasty lunch. We appreciate your feedback on the changing rooms and will work on improving that aspect for future guests. Hope to see you again soon!
Wonderful day out! Water wasn’t very high, but the guides may it a fab day with swimming, jump off rocks and great food. Thanks.
Thank you for your review! We're glad to hear you had a wonderful day, even with the lower water levels. It’s great that the guides made it a memorable experience with swimming, rock jumps, and great food. We appreciate your feedback!
Unfortunately there was not allot of water in the river ,so no actual rapids ,not the providers fault however should have been told of conditions, we also had to wait for over an hour for another group to join the party. Staff were friendly and supportive,meal provided was average
Thank you for your feedback. We apologize for the wait and understand your disappointment with the river conditions. We appreciate your understanding that it wasn't the provider's fault. We're glad to hear that the staff were friendly and supportive, and we'll take your comments about the meal into consideration. We hope to offer you a better experience next time!
very fun, friendly guides, the environment is good, overall excellent experience. definitely a must try
Thank you so much for your fantastic review! We're thrilled to hear that you had a very fun and excellent experience with us. Our team works hard to create a friendly and welcoming environment, and we're delighted that it contributed to your positive visit. We appreciate your kind words and are honored to be considered a "must-try." We look forward to welcoming you back and providing you with more memorable experiences in the future. If you have any suggestions or feedback, feel free to share them with us. Thank you again for choosing us and taking the time to share your positive experience!
We had a great time on this trip. I'm a little afraid of deep water so was quite glad the water level wasn't too deep but plenty enough. The rapids were a grade 2 which was enough. We had plenty of opportunities to get out for a swim too which was nice to cool off. Really lovely lunch at the end and overall would highly recommend this trip... lots of fun and the guides were great fun too.
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