last name, G U I
back from Sabah
Wednesday, 2 June 2010 @ 6:39 pm
ok..time to blog about the Sarawak,or rather,Sabah trip ...cause by the time I reached there,I realised we were actually touring Sabah.. and not Sarawak.. so I kinda mixed them up .anyways.. Sabah's quite a nice place.. it's home to South East Asia's tallest mountain, Mount Kinabaluthe locals call actually call it Mt. Akinabalu , with the 'A' in front. They believe it's a mountain for your souls to rest on after death.akina means ancestors, balu means mountain. It simply means ancestral mountain.. if you translate it to English.. and my tour guide said that every true Sabahan must climb the mountain at least once in their lifetime, so that when he/she dies, his/her soul 'knows the way' to the mountain that explains why people believe they can see faces out of the mountain rocks..which are believed to be the ancestors who rest there now.. haha, fascinating stuff =) , didn't know a mountain could hold so much mysterygo check it out >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Kinabaluwell,I spent the first day sitting in a van for 2hours + as soon as I reached the airport, which drove us all the way to our resort up in the middle of the mountains via roads that were constructed to 'twirl' around the mountain.It was a truly tiresome trip up there, imagine sitting 2hours in a vehicle.. in Singapore,you only need 1hour vehicle ride,or even less, to travel from East to West Coast O.O
and the elevation was constantly rising as the lorry drove higher and higher... with lots of sharp turns to make.. the trip made me giddy,I can still feel the twirls and whirls in my head now +.+ ..but it was a truly memorable experiencesince the altitude was so high, a look out of the van saw us shrouded in clouds I didn't take pictures of the shrouding of the clouds =(
but imagine driving past soft and wooly cotton balls high up in the sky xD .. lol? nvm -.-but other than the ascent up to the mountain, there were many other memorable events that happened and sights that we witnessedanyways, when we finally reached the mountain hotel, I immediately got off the van, and because it was raining, the air there was like air-con .. seriously,I think even colder than the lowest temperature your air-con can go :Dand the hotel rooms didn't have air-con ...THERE DIDN'T NEED TO BE ANY!!! free air-con.... =)here are some pics I took up in the mountains before I made my descent to the city the following day.
the hotel we stayed in 
the room I stayed in
view from the room window
this is some hotel spa, the small hut you see in the picture above
the picturesque views of the mountain range
there was nothing much to do up there, so I just lazed in the hotel room and watched TV =\
haha.. the second day arrived, and it was full of activities, we first took a 45min ride via lorry to Mount Kinabalu National Park, where we walked on canopy walkways. It was quite scary at first, because the bridge was slightly shaky, and I held on to the side ropes very tightly =x
but nevertheless,it was an accomplishable task for many first timers,including myself :)
the rainforest trekking route
look at how tall this tree is. The ropes you see are what binds the bridges in place
what you see below is not the forest floor,but it's the canopy.. it's at least 30m from the forest floor from up here...
after the canopy trek, we went for hot spring baths
that was pretty much everything that happened on the second day.
After the hot springs, we went back to the hotel to have a quick bath and then packed our luggage and went on another 2hour+ lorry ride down to sea level again :)
we then checked in at another hotel in the city side
it was by the beach. Which meant that there was plenty of beach activities. Went snorkling on the 3rd day, and I got bitten by a fish on my left middle finger. So you want to see the injury,fish? Take a look at my middle finger then _I_
after that, I just waited for the following day to come and then HOME SWEET HOME!!!
that's pretty much the whole trip summarized. cya folks ~! enjoy ur hols :D
