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Thirty-six days before Club Med Borneo opens in Sabah, the resort on the Pahang coast that taught Asia how to take a holiday quietly closed its gates — estimated two years before it returns as a reimagined property on the same 80-hectare site.
In the late 1970s, Club Med co-founder Gilbert Trigano scouted the East Coast of Peninsular Malaysia by helicopter, searching for a site where dense jungle met open beach.
Invited by the Malaysian government and the state of Pahang — both looking to put the East Coast on the international tourism map — he spotted a coastal forest flanking Pantai Cherating from the air and, by most accounts, knew immediately he had found it.
