Whatever did happened to this town? I remembered that ten years ago it was a beautiful town and the condition of the landscape was not as bad as what I had witnessed recently.
Notice the retaining wall under construction and the condition of the road. (Cick on photo to enlarge).It is no secret that the town and the surrounding area had ground movement problems as can be seen with lots of retaining walls being built. Presently a retaining wall is being constructed right in front of the entrance to the town.
Some of the buildings badly need to be repainted. These are just in front of the war memorial. Notice the tourist coach on the righ hand side of the photo. What will be on their mind when they saw the condition of the town.All this while I had only been passing through without really dropping by and had a real good look of the place. I was really shocked to witness the condition of the town when I paid a visit to the town proper after a lapse of 10 years. It has that look of a town that has been neglected where most of the shop houses I see are badly in need of repainting while the town square itself is really in a bad shape. I did however, saw a renovation works of some sort to beautify the place in progress as I wrote this post. How beautiful the square will look like once all the works has been completed, however, remains to be seen.
For a small town as Kundasang, it has quite a number of Billiard saloons. I count three after making a quick look around. All the tables at the three salons are full which could only mean one thing. Either the patrons had so much free time or that they are a plain lazy lot.
Another thing that caught my attention was that ten years ago I could still see a lot of local faces around. Now what I see are more foreigners than locals and come to think of it, the town reminded me as one that I used to see at the East coast of Sabah. It has that look and feel of `foreign air and smell’ and also dirty with rubbish strewn all over the place. Only the hardworking cleaners were able to make the place looks presentable to visitors.
So where did some of the locals go? Some had moved to other places in Sabah. The younger generation had either moved to other larger towns to look for work while other tried their luck in Semenanjung.
What a shame for such a beautiful place. On a clear day, one could see the Mount Kinabalu quite clearly from here. It had a few number of tourist attraction spots and one such place is the War Memorial located just behind the town. What a sore eye the town would be to the visiting tourists.
Entrance to the Kundasang War Memorial. (Click photo to enlarge)The local authority must do something to at least have the buildings repainted and whatever happened to the ADUN or MP for this place?
