Kampung Titingan
Kampung Titingan is a village in the Tawau District of the state of Sabah, in Malaysia.

Kampung Titingan is a village in the Tawau District of the state of Sabah, in Malaysia. The village is also known by its nickname of Kampung Ice Box, or Ice Box. The village is a shanty town, occupying a wide area with high population density, and most of its lands belong to the Government of Sabah.
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Worth seeing in and around Kampung Titingan
3 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Al-Kauthar Mosque
The Al-Kauthar Mosque, also known as Masjid Besar Tawau, is a Sunni mosque, located in Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia.
1.2 km · mosque in Malaysia · Wikipedia - 02Tawau Bell Tower
The Tawau Bell Tower is the oldest standing structure in Tawau, constructed by the Japanese to commemorate the signing of armistice agreement following World War I when Japan was an ally of Great Britain.
2.6 km · tower in Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia · Wikipedia - 03Fo Guang Shan Temple, Tawau
Fo Guang Shan Temple Tawau is a Buddhist temple located in Tawau, Sabah, Malaysia. It is one of the overseas temple for the Fo Guang Shan Buddhist organization based in Taiwan.
1.7 km · Buddhist temple in Tawau, Malaysia · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kampung Titingan
- Airports
- Kota Kinabalu (BKI), 279 km
- Kota Kinabalu → Kampung Titingan280 km · quickest by road, 8h 34m · RM90–115
- Kuching → Kampung Titingan892 km · quickest by road, 27h 29m · RM290–385
- Bandar Seri Begawan → Kampung Titingan336 km · quickest by road, 11h 17m · $48–65
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kampung Titingan
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kampung Titingan. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inThe only ferry connection is to the Indonesian city of Nunukan in North Kalimantan province.
- Go nextNunukan - an island in North Kalimantan, Indonesia, is just one an hour away by ferry.
- Go nextAs of 2023, no direct ferry connection exists anymore, you have to go to Nunukan first.
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If you know how people move in Kampung Titingan – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Kampung Titingan
Kampung Titingan is 2 km from Tawau, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- TawauA town, division and district in Sabah, Malaysia1.5 km
- Tawau Municipal CouncilLocal authorities in Tawau district, Sabah1.5 km