Kiulu River Water Rafting Day Tour from Kota Kinabalu
Overview
Available languages
8 hours
Mobile ticket
Depart from the city hotel in the morning. The journey will take about 1½ hours drive to Tamparuli area. As you arrive at the ending point, stopover for light refreshment and participants can change clothes.
After that, continue up to the starting point at Pukak or Sukang.
Additional Info
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
Not recommended for pregnant travelers
Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Please take note. Actual pick up time based on hotel location
1 Borneo Hotels & Outskirt Hotels Pick up & drop-off additional charges applied. Additional USD 10-15 per person
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
Tamparuli Suspension Bridge
0830hrs depart from the city hotel. The journey will take about 1½ hours drive to Tamparuli area.
Kiulu River
As you arrive at the ending point, stopover for light refreshment and participants can change clothes. After that, continue up to the starting point at Pukak or Sukang. The river guide will allocate all rafting equipment e.g. helmets, PFD, paddles, raft, while participants can apply sun block lotion and take pictures or walk on a suspension bridge. Safety briefing is given by the river guide before you get into the river. After the briefing, start raft down for about 2 hours to the ending point (Kiulu Town) covering approximately 7 to 8 km. After changing clothes and a sumptuous lunch is served by the riverside. In the afternoon, return to Kota Kinabalu and arriving at around 1530hrs at the city hotel.
What‘s Included
Rafting Equipment
Lunch
Pick-up and drop-off from Kota kinabalu City Hotels
Tour with English speaking guide
Life Jacket
Transport by Air-Conditioned Car/Coach
Food and drinks, unless specified
Gratuities
Pickup points
Kota Kinabalu Marriott Hotel
Lot G-23a, Jalan Tun Fuad Stephens, Jalan Tun Fuad Stephens Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
Le Meridien Kota Kinabalu
Jalan Tun Fuad Stephens, Sinsuran Kota Kinabalu Malaysia
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Kiulu River Water Rafting Day Tour from Kota Kinabalu
Pickup included
Reviews
18 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Must see, must do, memorable, easy adventure. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
leslielB765QC,,Jan 25, 2026
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Excellent, fun, adventure. Well organised, knowledgeable, and well-trained yet fun guides.
Great experience and an easy but enjoyable paddle
claireeX4792SL,,Aug 5, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00A fantastic trip with a great crew. Lilo was our guide and had a great sense of fun and lots of knowledge to share to. This is a really easygoing trip so ideal for anyone considering it for families with small children. The river is grade 1-2 depending on whether it’s wet or dry season so it’s an easy paddle. We also had a lot of swimming time in the river too and watched Sabah drift by. A great way to spend the morning with a lovely lunch at the end! Thanks team Riverbug 🙌
Dunno the water with very interesting information from such an experienced guide who kept us safe and informed
davebQ3681PV,,Jul 30, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00The guide was such good company He is an asset to your business Give him pay rise or shares in the business Great lunch as well
Boat ride
charlottecG3212MT,,Jul 20, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
3.00I took my daughter and her friend to do the white water rafting from Kota Kinabalu. White water rafting is quite a stretch to be honest. It's a very leisurely boat ride down a very calm river! The scenery was beautiful and if you weren't expecting white water would be a lovely little river trip. However, I do think it was quite expensive for what we actually got and the river was quite dissapointing in the thrills expectation. Of you have very very young kids (under 7) it would he a nice introduction perhaps to rafting but skip it if you have teens!
Great trip for all ages
Chris F,,Jul 12, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Very pleasant experience. Very knowledgeable guide who catered the ride to the specific people in each boat. We were 3 boats rafting the same river, and our guide asked how we would like to take each section of the river (aggressive or peaceful) Our boat was able to take a more exciting route while boats with young kids took a calmer ride. About a 1 hour ride from Kk. Food and company were both really good
Fun time white water rafting
valarnold,,Aug 3, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00Fun guides who tried to enhance the experience there’s parts to swim parts to jump into the water and my favourite bit was going down the rapids out of the boat. The lunch provided was tasty the only bad thing was the changing rooms were very basic and dirty, no shower just an empty room with dirty chair
Wonderful day out!...
Angela B,,May 16, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00Wonderful day out! Water wasn’t very high, but the guides may it a fab day with swimming, jump off rocks and great food. Thanks.
Lack of water
Barry L,,Apr 12, 2024
- Review from Viator
3.00Unfortunately there was not allot of water in the river ,so no actual rapids ,not the providers fault however should have been told of conditions, we also had to wait for over an hour for another group to join the party. Staff were friendly and supportive,meal provided was average
good
SheungYinSean P,,Dec 3, 2023
- Review from Viator
5.00very fun, friendly guides, the environment is good, overall excellent experience. definitely a must try
White water rafting Kiulu river
clairerU8003UM,,Aug 28, 2023
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00We had a great time on this trip. I'm a little afraid of deep water so was quite glad the water level wasn't too deep but plenty enough. The rapids were a grade 2 which was enough. We had plenty of opportunities to get out for a swim too which was nice to cool off. Really lovely lunch at the end and overall would highly recommend this trip... lots of fun and the guides were great fun too.
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