Well it was time to leave Kuching and Sarawak to fly across to the other Malaysian part of Borneo called Sabah.
We arrived in the capital, Kota Kinabalu after a short uneventful flight and used our very handy Grab app to get a taxi to our hotel. On the way, we passed a Hilton Hotel and the taxi driver informed us that the room rate was around 1000R (we normally pay around 100!!). Next up was a Mercedes Benz showroom and by this point we were very confused as to whether we were still in Borneo!
Anyway, we got to our hotel, found our room to be large and comfortable with nice views of the trees/forest behind the building plus tea/coffee making facilities and tv with Fox movies (although most of these were repeats or old films!).
Venturing out the first night for dinner is always hard work as you don't know the place and when you're hungry it's even more challenging. We walked around until we settled on a cheap place which was prepared to rustle up some vege. fried rice for us. Most of the other customers were guys sitting about watching very old WWE wrestling on the restauarant's tv - it was weird! We ate our food then went to buy some beers before retiring back to our room. The next day we checked out around town - not a massive amount to do here but we did find a modern shopping mall with a big food court so dinner was sorted! We went for a walk up to an observation point then negotiated all the stairs back down to the main street. We walked around town, checked out a local market selling everything from clothes, shoes and knock off sports brands like Nike as well as the food market near the seafront which absolutely stunk in the areas selling fish. God knows how these people can put up with the stench as it made our stomachs churn!
To be honest, KK is an ok place for a couple of nights but the main attraction is further away at Sandakan/Sepilok so we stayed 3 nights then it was time for a short flight there as the bus ride was 7 hrs+ and we didn't fancy wasting all that time driving there (of course the flight was cheap too!).
We arrived in the capital, Kota Kinabalu after a short uneventful flight and used our very handy Grab app to get a taxi to our hotel. On the way, we passed a Hilton Hotel and the taxi driver informed us that the room rate was around 1000R (we normally pay around 100!!). Next up was a Mercedes Benz showroom and by this point we were very confused as to whether we were still in Borneo!
Anyway, we got to our hotel, found our room to be large and comfortable with nice views of the trees/forest behind the building plus tea/coffee making facilities and tv with Fox movies (although most of these were repeats or old films!).
Venturing out the first night for dinner is always hard work as you don't know the place and when you're hungry it's even more challenging. We walked around until we settled on a cheap place which was prepared to rustle up some vege. fried rice for us. Most of the other customers were guys sitting about watching very old WWE wrestling on the restauarant's tv - it was weird! We ate our food then went to buy some beers before retiring back to our room. The next day we checked out around town - not a massive amount to do here but we did find a modern shopping mall with a big food court so dinner was sorted! We went for a walk up to an observation point then negotiated all the stairs back down to the main street. We walked around town, checked out a local market selling everything from clothes, shoes and knock off sports brands like Nike as well as the food market near the seafront which absolutely stunk in the areas selling fish. God knows how these people can put up with the stench as it made our stomachs churn!
To be honest, KK is an ok place for a couple of nights but the main attraction is further away at Sandakan/Sepilok so we stayed 3 nights then it was time for a short flight there as the bus ride was 7 hrs+ and we didn't fancy wasting all that time driving there (of course the flight was cheap too!).
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| Our room at Century Hotel, Kota Kinabalu |
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