this was what we had for breakfast. not bad... not bad at all...
Next stop is Ranau. Ranau is about an hour away from Kundasang. It's a small town. Main tourist attraction there would be the Hot Spring. There's a huge waterfall there too but it's 3800++m up the trail. We almost died when we walked up the volcano mud trail. Mt. Kinabalu is 4108m,it's only a few hundred metres higher. There's no way I could make it up there. Probably next time...
beautiful ya?....
This is the open bath tub. There were two silly kids,jumped into the tub fully clothed.. in JEANS...with their BELTS on. in fact,everyone was fully clothed except for the foreigners. What is wrong with these people..sigh..
This is the individual tub. But it takes forever for the water to fill up. In the end,I changed my mind. Snapped a couple of pictures,and continued our journey to Sandakan. We reached Sandakan after 4hrs of drive...(i think),had dinner,and called it a night. The next day, we went to Sepilok's Orangutan rehab centre. I must say I'm quite disappointed. Feeding time is at 3pm. If you go before that, you'll have to play "Spot the Orangutan' game. Otherwise it's just a jungle. So we went there during feeding time.
There weren't that many Orangutans....
Since there weren't that many monkeys to look at or play with, we proceeded to the crocodile farm... and their feeding time is at 4pm. Check out these fatty crocs man..
this guy is showing the most expensive part of a crocodile's body... the stomach...
and this guy doing the traditional Kadazan dance, Sumazau,with that thing over him... 
I thought they were going to feed chicken to the crocs,but I was wrong. Fishheads. Stinky fishheads..very smelly..ew...
they have other animals in there too... here's a bunch of catfish and koi...
There were ostriches, monkeys, wild cats, peacock, CHICKENS (all types!) and few others. But Adrie doesn't seem to find them interesting enough so he didn't bother taking their pictures.. SO,after a long day with all sorts of animals,Azlan brought us to this beautiful place on top of a hill. It's called the English Tea House. Very nice place.
Apparently u can practise your croquet skills here too..
we didn't have tea of course... the weather wouldn't allow us to... too hot... but I like this place. They have weddings and other functions here too. That's pretty much IT about Sandakan. We took a flight back to KK... thank goodness.
These two pictures were taken in Nexus Karambunai Resort. I thought I'd show the boys around before they go back to KL.
It's their last day in KK. I brought them to Waterfront in town to catch sunset.
nice right?
After sunset, I brought them to the city. Since Harvest Festival is coming soon,I brought them to the Harvest Queen Beauty Pageant, Unduk Ngadau. Every year,a month before harvest festival, there'll be a pageant carried out in every town and district. The winners of from every district will then compete with each other on Harvest Festival Day itself. There'll be cultural and traditional dance and singing performances by local artistes. All the VIPs would be there too.It's an eye opening experience. After everything,we do what we're best at.... we drink. Tapai. Yummy sweet rice wine. Aramaiti!! (it means cheers)
i remember the open bath tub! i think it was maybe err...6-7 years ago. ack!! when ben was still studying there.
i remember when my mom told us we were going for 5 days, i was like ehh 5 days is too long! timchi, after the 5 days...i wanted to stay on longer.
KK has so much to offer ler really. hehe
damn KK pimping lah we all hahah
Ms. Redd said...
9:58 AM
ahhaha,ya lah. I can't even remember the last time I went to Hotspring. I remember my dad paid for the private tub...we had the whole chalet to ourselves..our tub was in Rafflesia shape. speakin of which,we actually went to the Rafflesia Rehabilitation Centre in Tambunan. They were closed lah.. otherwise we could've taken some great pics of Rafflesia. Its very far lah...
ARISTO said...
2:10 PM
i'd like to go to all the places too. but knowing that there are so many long drives.. can get kinda tired, hoh?
justbee said...
7:02 PM
well, at least u'r the passenger.can u imagine how tired the driver's gona be? i think u'll need bout 2 weeks to get to the main attraction spots, without rushing.. then it'll be more relaxing.
ARISTO said...
7:52 PM
eh how come we didn't get to those stuff when we were there the last time...sigh...beeeeaaauuutifuuul pictures
tabby said...
4:50 PM
hey tab,sorry lah. the last time when u guys came,the group was too big...and quite a few joined last min..so it's a bit difficult to plan the whole thing...some more u were stayin with kit rite? so bit hard lah.. mayb next time lah. like i said,i think to really get around sabah n see more..it's gona take more than d usual 4D3N trip lerr...=P
ARISTO said...
3:23 PM
let me print money first.
justbee said...
2:10 PM