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It’s a little tricky with a family in tow, but its nice when traveling to not overplan the trip and to leave a little room for spontaneity.

We got into Kota Kinabula late on Friday. We had activities in mind for Sunday, but Saturday was wide open. We slept in, spent some time mapping out the rest of the trip, and then spent the day wandering the city and getting familiar with KK.

We had just left the HSBC bank when we turned the corner and found what could only be described a graffiti park. It was an abandoned building that years earlier had burned down. All that was left of it was a series of square support columns. They had all been painted white and various people had added graffiti over the years.

It was quite the unexpected find right in the heart of downtown KK. Without consulting each other we all started to silently mill about and explore. We spent the next half an hour checking out all the mini-murals and photographing our favorite ones. It was pretty obvious that the artwork had been down by a wide variety of artists because the styles were so different from each other.

It would have been fun even if we had read about the graffiti park in a guide book and planned our visit, but it was a whole lot more fun serendipitously discovering it for ourselves.