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Rafting Adventure: Kota Kinabalu to Tamparuli
4.4
17 Ratings
Kota Kinabalu
Set out from your urban accommodation in the morning. Anticipate approximately an hour and a half ride to the vicinity of Tamparuli. Upon reaching the endpoint, a brief pause allows for a snack and an opportunity for participants to switch outfits. Subsequently, proceed to the launching site either at Pukak or Sukang.
Set out from your urban accommodation in the morning. Anticipate approximately an hour and a half ride to the vicinity of Tamparuli. Upon reaching the endpoint, a brief pause allows for a snack and an opportunity for participants to switch outfits. Subsequently, proceed to the launching site either at Pukak or Sukang.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Tamparuli Suspension Bridge - 0830hrs depart from the city hotel. The journey will take about 1½ hours drive to Tamparuli area.
- Kiulu River - 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…
- Tamparuli Suspension Bridge - 0830hrs depart from the city hotel. The journey will take about 1½ hours drive to Tamparuli area.
- Kiulu River - 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.
What's Included
- Rafting Equipment
- Lunch
- Pick-up and drop-off from Kota kinabalu City Hotels
- Tour with English speaking guide
- Life Jacket
- Transport by Air-Conditioned Car/Coach
- Rafting Equipment
- Lunch
- Pick-up and drop-off from Kota kinabalu City Hotels
- Tour with English speaking guide
- Life Jacket
- Transport by Air-Conditioned Car/Coach
What's Not Included
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- Gratuities
- Food and drinks, unless specified
- Gratuities
Additional Information
- 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
- 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
Location
Kota Kinabalu
Free hotel pick up & drop off from your hotel located at Kota Kinabalu City Centre (2km radius).
An additional surcharge for hotel pickup outside 1km radius from the city center is applicable and
payable on the day of your activity.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.4
(17 Ratings)
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Claireex4792sl
Aug 5, 2025
Great experience and an easy but enjoyable paddle - 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 🙌
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Davebq3681pv
Jul 30, 2025
Dunno the water with very interesting information from such an experienced guide who kept us safe and informed - 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
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Chris
Jul 12, 2025
Great trip for all ages - 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
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Valarnold
Aug 3, 2024
Fun time white water rafting - 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
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Angela_b
May 16, 2024
Wonderful day out!... - 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.
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Sheungyinsean_p
Dec 3, 2023
good - very fun, friendly guides, the environment is good, overall excellent experience. definitely a must try
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Claireru8003um
Aug 28, 2023
White water rafting Kiulu river - 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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Joannaky
Jun 18, 2023
Nice experience - The tour operator communicated well on the details of the pick up.
It was a first time experience for my teenage kids, they kinda enjoyed it but unfortunately the water level was low as there was not much rain prior so there was not much "excitement". The guide still did made it fun for the kids given the circumstances.
A few things to note:
1. This is a level 1 -2, good for younger kids.
2. Bring towels & change of clothes.
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Charlottecg3212mt
Jul 20, 2025
Boat ride - 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!
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Barry_l
Apr 12, 2024
Lack of water - 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
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