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Having life out of my course with friends and the other Z ,
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Friday 22 October 2010
#11 On the way back
Admission fee was just RM2 for student. Real cheap.
The house was so interesting I would say.
Going in.
Surprisingly it was really cool in the house since as you can see the weather outside was just cruel.Very relaxing. Felt like falling asleep right there.
You could stay there overnight if you want. I couldn't remember the price but it is quite cheap I think plus the package includes traditional meals. But can be good if suddenly we want to experience basic living, and must be good for bonding session with friends without blackberry, iphone and what not. Must be fun right?
This is how the room looks like. Interesting? No?
Looong house.
Look who's up there? lol
After the longhouse we drove for another 20 minutes and we reached Kampung Gombizau for raw honey tasting.
It's interesting how each village on the way to Kudat has their own sort of attraction or specialty I would say. It's definitely tourist friendly. There are several more attractions like gong making demonstration but we weren't able to stop at every village due to time.
But this one was real fun!
We had this net on to protect our faces from the bees.
But she didn't get one on. The bees must be so friendly with her. Basically we went with this guide and she brought her to an area where I saw several boxes looked like old-fashioned mail boxes. But apparently they were like artificial beehives.
There she pulled one wooden frame where the bees made their honeycomb and also where the honey is.
See the honeycomb. Beautiful!
Well, basically the lady offered us to take our pictures holding that frame. But I was a bit paranoid when it comes to bees. When I was about to hold it one bee got into my net. Can you imagine? I freaked out of course. Like my face my face! It's gonna sting me!
But the lady and everyone like shouted CALM DOWN! If not it's definitely gonna to sting you! Well, bees won't sting unless they're threatened and they can feel threaten if I like fan them away. Right.....
But I managed...and it went away. Can you imagine my face if....oh well. I tried to be brave and still I got a snap.
And she got us to try this pure honey. The taste was a bit different that usual honey I bought in Iceland but it was so good. I never tried honey fresh from the honeycomb before. Great experience!
You can also buy their honey if you really like it.
It was such an amazing day! Please go to Kudat and on your way stop over at these amazing places and support these local industries!
#10 Kudat
Since we rented the car for 2 days we decided to drive up to Kudat. We heard Kudat is so beautiful and from the internet I knew that we could see so many things as well on the way there. So why not. We set off really early since it's gonna take us about 3 hours to get there. Our main destination was Simpang Mengayau, the tip of Borneo Island.
Before we reached there we stopped over at Bandar Kudat, a very relaxed city, with such an amazing seafront to fill the petrol. AJ drove all the way this time since since it was quite a long distance and I wasn't that confident.
Well, we stopped at Petronas with this amazing view in front of us.
It was Zohor time so went to the town mosque for a while.
We continued our journey for about an hour, and we were extremely excited to be greeted with this view.
There you go, I've been to the tip of borneo y'all.
The view was absolutely breathtaking and dramatic like OMG we were speechless. We kept saying it's worth the driving almost every minute. Like we couldn't say much like just stop and stare and wonder.
It was seriously midday and ridiculously hot. But we couldn't care less. I was glad that I had a really loose shirt on me which was at least breezy.
Behind there, that's the tip of Borneo Island. You could see in the map there are two horns which made up Sabah. I was at the tip which is slightly longer, which is the tip of the island. The reason why it's called Simpang Mengayau is because the tip is the meeting point of the Sulu and South China Sea. So basically mengayau means 'lingering junction'.
I love the structure and the feeling of this particular rock. It was given this dramatic and amazing structure through wind erosion. It becomes like stairs so we can go down near the water.
Near the tip there is this undisturbed pristine beach which was absolutely beautiful. Too bad it was such a boiling hot day if not I would have jumped in the water.
There is no resort whatsoever and I'm glad that this bit of the country is not being too commercialised or over-developed. I'm so glad if it's going to be left just like it is now. I heard you can stay in basic cabins if you wanna stay overnight here but why not to just appreciate the beauty.
I would have wanted to stay longer but it's such a long way to get back to KK and we wanted to stop over several other places on our way back.
I would definitely come back. That's for sure. And in a less raging weather.
Tuesday 19 October 2010
#9 Kinabalu Park
That weekend we decided to rent a car for two days so that we could explore other places outside KK. It was awesome. Rental was pretty cheap and views on the way were breathtaking.
First stop: Kinabalu Park. It was about an hour and a half drive from KK. We arrived almost midday but it was slightly cooler than than the city.
Look at that!
Well, to make full use of what nature has to offer, and since we decided not to climb mount Kinabalu due to certain circumstances, we thought why not we followed this trail, and had a rough idea what climbing would be like. Although in slightly inappropriate shoes and attires. Why not.
It was just for 598 metres. Just. But we didn't know it was an ascending pathway. Kidding rite.
It was funny everyone was getting slower and slower not because we're enjoying the nature so much. Towards the end we couldn't even complete our sentences.
Our motivation was probably at the end we would see something incredible or a breathtaking scenery or something. We were all excited. But unfortunately we were just greeted by a dead end and just that signpost. Kidding rite? We had a good laugh on ourselves. Oh well. At least we knew that we made a WISE decision not to climb mount Kinabalu now so that we all can work on our fitness. lol.
After the amazing trail experience, we went to the botanical garden in the park. Why not just to tick the boxes.
Good thing was they had student discounts.
I snapped pictures like i'm doing agriculture.
Well, behind there should be the highest peak but that day was really cloudy so you can just see us.
After the park we drove for about another hour to Poring Hot Spring.
This place was so jam packed with families and groups of teenagers all bathing in several small pools filled with probably just lukewarm water that time. People couldn't go in the original source of hot water since it was really that hot. I felt it.
In Poring there's also canopy walkway which was as high as this tree.
Just for 3 Ringgit.
It was frightening since I thought I could drop my camera at any time. It was seriously damn high and swinging. It was quite a long walk but we did it and it was made more fun with a group of aunties from Kedah screamed and laughed their hearts out the entire time. We couldn't help but laughed with their laughings. lol.
It was already late afternoon so before we head back to KK we decided to drop by at the Sabah tea garden. Here's where Sabah tea is from and also the not so famous CTea is made from.
The view was quite nice but not as nice as Cameron of course.
On our way back, finally the cloud decided to break apart for a while and gave us a sneak peak of the tip of mount Kinabalu. Finally I could see it live!
I drove back to KK and was welcomed with a really heavy rain, dark road and flash floods. Quite nerve-wrecking for someone who's license is still barely passing the first year of 'P'. But we made it to our places safe and sound so was really a personal victory from my side. ;o)
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