Day 3: November 30 – Mount Kinabalu….
We then ventured off to Kinabalu Park, which was not part of the original itinerary but we still went through with it since it adds more to the nature trip experience. Saw a jaw-dropping view of Mt. Kinabalu on our way there (when I go back, climbing that mountain will be on my list). And as lucky as we are, we got lost! Hahaha, here are snippets of our conversation:
11:00 am: SHADDAN THE DRIVER: the trek should just be around 45 mins
US: okay! *ventures off, supplies tally: 3 cameras, 1 bottle of water, 5 sunglasses, yun lang*
12:00 pm: ME: okay guys, park headquarters daw 8 mins
US: yehey!
12:50 pm: SOME OF US: uh, i think we're lost...
CARM: oh no, may blood...
1:00 pm: ME: OMG people!!! we're lost!!! please help us!
FOREIGNER BACKPACKER AND NATIVE GUIDE: *crickets*
1:15pm: ME: sige, ako muna, mukhang slippery....whoa, shet ang sakit ng puwet ko!
1:20: DAENE: i'm about to fall flat on my face and you're worried about my camera!??!?!?!?!??!
1:20pm and 30 seconds: DAENE: i'm about to be impaled and you're worried about my camera!??!?!??!
1:30pm: EDS: i can see the road!!!
US: yehey!
DAENE: (looking at my pants) oopsie i got a poopsie!!!
ME: no jokes while climbing steep rocks!!!
I’m proud of everyone coz no one had a drama moment and we all managed to come back in one piece. It was exhilarating to say the least. If you ask me the highlight of the trip, it would definitely be this one. Sure we got lost, saw too much trees that even I, a nature lover, soon got sick of, but it was still great, haha. We gave our driver (Shaddan) a heart attack and a native really thinks that we are crazy and stupid tourists now. Thank god the next part is the hot springs so we got to rest. We did not do a canopy walk anymore because we already had too much of the greenery (imagine a 45 min trek that became 2.5 hrs).
The trip back was so Forks-y since it was sooooo cold, and we did this weird game about who we prefer to go into a tub with (oh so ano na, 50Cent o Nelly? Yogi or Winnie the Pooh? Shaider or Masked Rider Black?) We got back at night then we ventured off to buy dinner…I bought a shrimp mee goreng and 10 sticks of lamb and chicken satay…grabe, todo pigging out. We then crashed in an Irish pub that Daene spotted the night before. Had a pint of Kilkeny (it was good!) and basically hang out and watched soccer.
Last day, we went to the tallest building (I think) in Sabah then went to the city mosque (which was better viewed at night). Then we went to Puh Poh Tze Temple (camwhoring galore, hehehe) and the entrance lang of the Sabah museum (since we’re low on cash). We then went to Monsopiad Cultural Village and got a treat when Eds got to dance onstage and Daene became the warrior princess (thank god she was able to pop the balloon using the blow dart!). I want to buy that skull memorabilia but it was too expensive, argh.
Oh, I also bought a Kokeshi doll in the trip…can’t find a Malaysian doll, hehehe
With our luck, we got dropped off the wrong airport…hay, so it was 40 minutes of intense brooding as we find ways to call our driver to go back and transfer terminals. Super great trip, I hope I have more in the coming years (Osaka cebu pac promo, I’m looking at you)…have to have more money hehehe.
* pictures from Day 3 and Day 4 :)
1 comment:
haha!panalo talaga dude!
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