Malaysia, Sabah: the land below the wind meet "in old Hongkong"

The name of Sandakan special local birth, but in many literary works, create a great sensation in China's mainland movie "Wang Xiang", with a woman as a representative of the bankJapanNanyang girls live mainly in here.The United States of AmericaFemale writer Agnes Keith's novel "land below the wind" is also here creation base, the writer lived in Sandakan for a long time, she was in her works "land below the wind", described as a land of idyllic beauty of the scenery of Sabah.

"Wind down town" reputation of Sabah climate description of nature, Sandakan is located in the world's third largest island of Borneo at the northern end of Sabah be richly endowed by nature, geographical location, just to avoid the typhoon belt, without any severe weather change excuse me. The typhoon season in Southeast Asia, Sabah is like a harbour quiet, people can still enjoy the sunshine, the beach here.

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Sandakan (Sandakan), located in theMalaysiaThe sand off the coast of Badong. We are from the capital of Sabah, brother playing Kinabalu car here. Sandakan city is very small, walking in the street, very easy to integrate into the life of common people, the most lively street is only 2 lanes, on both sides of the road are shopping malls, sell some daily, morning market particularly lively, vegetables, fruit, clothing, food stalls, a little Chinese township feeling.

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If you spend half an hour on foot in the city, will find many traces of Hongkong, traditional Chinese billboard on the street is needless to say, then say "Tang building", very old building, the balcony dense airing clothes quilt, the very breath of life. In Malaysia, Malay and Chinese families like multi-fu, so a family has three or four. Because Sandakan has attracted a large number of Hongkong people come to do business, and the landscape is similar, the original here is known as "little Hongkong".