I hardly slept a wink on our 1st night there for some reason i cannot fanthom. The bed was comfy, pillows were plush, aircond was jut nice. But i could not fall asleep. This resulted in me jumping up at 6am to have a nice long hot soak in the tub and bugging hubs to lets go down for breakfast nowww!!
The hotel breakfast was really good with a good balance of local and international cuisine. I stuffed myself silly with so much food that i could hardly move afterwards. The pancakes with cinnamon sugar and maple syrup was out of this world!! i went to sleep that night dreaming about it and could not wait to get up the next morning to have it- only to be told they didnt have it that day. Im gonna make it myself this week.
Coming to Sabah, I had wanted so badly to see some live orangutans at Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary, but after learning that it was 230kms away, I settled for the Lok Kawi Wildlife Park. Sadly, the orang utan enclosure was closed when we got there :( We did see some pygmy elephants and probiscis monkeys which Borneo is famed for but for the RM120 cab fair (30 min journey)- i felt really dissppointed. Hubs almost got muzzled by this playfull baby elephant and actually fell trying to get away from it. I laughed so hard I was practically falling off my seat!
The Wildlife park was really just a small zoo. I saw the closed place where the orang utans were being kept while their enclosure was being renovated and stood outside the window and called out to them. I heard a distinctive sound of it sticking its tongue out at me and going "pbhttttttt!!". That made my day eventhough i didnt get to see them.
After leaving the wildlife park we tapau-ed some lunch to eat at the hotel and to get some shut eye before going out again when it was cooler. It was superbly hot while we were there as it was the dry season and they werent getting much rain just like us over here in the peninsula.
After our siesta, we headed to Tanjung Aru to catch the world famous sunset which everyone raved about. We walked along the stretch of restaurants but decided to reserve our tummy for dinner at this little italian place a friend had recommended. The beach was dotted with tiny crab holes. Hubs held on tight to my hand so i would not go running around like a mad fat women trying to catch the baby crabs.
We settled at this foodcourt and ordered some chicken wings and avocado juice to while away our time while waiting for the sun to set. The sunset was really beautiful. I dont think ive ever seen the sun looking so round and big n orange. But then again we never really pay much attention to sunsets over here.
After sunset we headed back to town to visit a local market recomended by our cab drive and to have dinner. The market turned out to be a disappointment with used clothing and other equally non interesting things on sale. Hubs talked me into walking to the italian eatery we were having dinner at instead of calling Jeffry our trusted driver. He pointed out it was only 600m to get there. I relented and we walked. We walked past huge billboards and crossed 3 laned roads. We cut thru roundabouts (I have never walked on foot at a roundabout b4. EVER!) and past giant hotels- and still not italian watevers.
At one point i just stopped walking and gave him the death glare. I was not going to walk another step. He fiddled with his phone and nonchalantly said- "ohhh mann!! we missed a turn!!". I gave his phone a glance and saw that it was going to be another 2km walk to get to dinner. I sat my butt down n waited for him to hail a cab. He was still fiddling with his phone then and proudly announced- "Eh yang! Its not 2km's laaa!! its 1.9!". I swear if it wasnt for my religion forbiding it- he would have had my foot for dinner.
But all was well when we got a cab who despite being clueless about the place- got us there in 4 mins flat. After all drama in getting there, I have to say, the food hardly made up for it. It wasnt bad- it just wasnt that good. We ordered a pizza, a lasagna with a side of garlic bread to share. The pizza was okay but the lasagna somehow tasted strangely like sambal to me. Our bill which included 2 iced lemon tea's came up to about RM70.
Jeffry was plenty surprised to find us there when we called him to pick us up. Even he said it was far!!! grrrr!!!
Safe to say i slept like a baby that night. All that walking drained me of all the life i had in me that night.
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