Kundasang

Kundasang is a hill station and market town in the Ranau district of Sabah, in Malaysian Borneo. It lies along the Kundasang Valley within the Crocker Range, about 6 kilometres from Kinabalu National Park and 15.6 kilometres from the centre of Ranau town. That makes it the closest town to Mount Kinabalu, with a panoramic view of the mountain. At an elevation of almost 1,900 metres it is described as the highest settlement in Malaysia, and its mountainous terrain has earned it the nickname New Zealand of Borneo; the Desa Dairy Farm stands within it. The town is renowned for its vegetable market, which is open seven days a week. Its people are mainly native Ranau Dusun, most of them Muslim, with a significant Christian minority and a small, largely Hakka, Chinese community, and almost all the shops are run by locals.