Houses

We travelled around this beautiful country with its lush vegetation, palm oil plantations and tea plantations through villages and towns. In the tea plantation we visited, there was a traditional long house for the workers.

Mount Kinabalu in the distance. Low lying clouds over the valley.

A long corridor with rooms leading off from it.

The houses are mainly built from ironwood on stilts to allow ventilation in their hot and steamy climate. A bit like Queenslanders but what I loved about them is that they were all painted a turquoise hue, with pink walls and purple banisters or a sea blue with faded dusky pink.