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Jul. 24th, 2006
Day 6 - City of the Cat (8/7/06)
Jul. 24th, 2006 10:54 amGot up and packed and headed down for our last breakfast in KL. Picked up at 10am for the long drive to KLIA.
Malaysia Air can’t seem to manage to seat us together properly. Mum and I were on one side and dad on the other. The person next to me who had the window seat slept!
Short flight, seems all we did was ate lunch then it was landing time. Borneo looked beautiful, so many rivers through forest.
Kuching is much less bustling than KL, but there are also less people that speak English well it seems. Hotel is nice. They left us fruit, I get to try mangosteen!
Took a stroll along the (filthy, smelly) river and booked tomorrow's tour. Fast food dinner at a place called Sugar Bun, like HJs with a squillion choices. Nothing exciting.
Early night, City tour and Orang-utans tomorrow. Must remember to SMS Matt.
Mozzie bites itching bad.
There was only one photo from day 6 and it's in this post.
Malaysia Air can’t seem to manage to seat us together properly. Mum and I were on one side and dad on the other. The person next to me who had the window seat slept!
Short flight, seems all we did was ate lunch then it was landing time. Borneo looked beautiful, so many rivers through forest.
| Our plane The plane we flew on from KL to Kuching. The flight takes less than 2 hours. |
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Kuching is much less bustling than KL, but there are also less people that speak English well it seems. Hotel is nice. They left us fruit, I get to try mangosteen!
Took a stroll along the (filthy, smelly) river and booked tomorrow's tour. Fast food dinner at a place called Sugar Bun, like HJs with a squillion choices. Nothing exciting.
Early night, City tour and Orang-utans tomorrow. Must remember to SMS Matt.
Mozzie bites itching bad.
There was only one photo from day 6 and it's in this post.
Day 6 - City of the Cat (8/7/06)
Jul. 24th, 2006 10:54 amGot up and packed and headed down for our last breakfast in KL. Picked up at 10am for the long drive to KLIA.
Malaysia Air can’t seem to manage to seat us together properly. Mum and I were on one side and dad on the other. The person next to me who had the window seat slept!
Short flight, seems all we did was ate lunch then it was landing time. Borneo looked beautiful, so many rivers through forest.
Kuching is much less bustling than KL, but there are also less people that speak English well it seems. Hotel is nice. They left us fruit, I get to try mangosteen!
Took a stroll along the (filthy, smelly) river and booked tomorrow's tour. Fast food dinner at a place called Sugar Bun, like HJs with a squillion choices. Nothing exciting.
Early night, City tour and Orang-utans tomorrow. Must remember to SMS Matt.
Mozzie bites itching bad.
There was only one photo from day 6 and it's in this post.
Malaysia Air can’t seem to manage to seat us together properly. Mum and I were on one side and dad on the other. The person next to me who had the window seat slept!
Short flight, seems all we did was ate lunch then it was landing time. Borneo looked beautiful, so many rivers through forest.
| Our plane The plane we flew on from KL to Kuching. The flight takes less than 2 hours. |
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Kuching is much less bustling than KL, but there are also less people that speak English well it seems. Hotel is nice. They left us fruit, I get to try mangosteen!
Took a stroll along the (filthy, smelly) river and booked tomorrow's tour. Fast food dinner at a place called Sugar Bun, like HJs with a squillion choices. Nothing exciting.
Early night, City tour and Orang-utans tomorrow. Must remember to SMS Matt.
Mozzie bites itching bad.
There was only one photo from day 6 and it's in this post.
Day 7 - Old Man Of The Jungle (9/7/06)
Jul. 24th, 2006 05:16 pmBreakfast here is much better. They have sushi (including unagi!) as well as a lot of other choices.
After breakfast we headed off to Semengoh Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre and had quite a bit of luck. Two adult females and their 3 young at the first feeding area, then another young one and the alpha male (named Richie) at the jungle feeding site. All babies are semi-wild and tickable.
Birding was very frustrating but I bumped into someone also into birding. Got a great look at a sunbird. Then headed back for a break.
Ended up having lunch at a little Chinese place on the side of the road. Wasn’t too bad, I had sweet & sour pork ribs and rice. All up for 3 of us, including drinks was 16.20RM – around $7Au.
Afternoon was the city tour. Museum was interesting, many stuffed birds and animals as well as info on the native people and longhouses. Then had a look around the cat museum, a collection of every bit of cat paraphernalia you could imagine. I hope my kitties are doing okay back in Perth. Cruised around a lot of the rest of town and bought some fruit at a riverside stall. One stall was selling BBQ kebabs and stuff, including a kebab of chicken Parson’s Noses. Also stopped off at the local fresh/wet market. Mum bought some bananas (1RM for a large bunch) and I tried (and bought) some longsats, which look like chat potatoes on the outside and have white flesh inside that isn’t too bad. I got a bunch for 1RM so it wasn’t really a loss.
Back to the hotel again for a bit then out again for dinner and checking out the small river ferries. Usually it’s a 50sen fee to get across the river, but for 10RM we were taken half an hour up the river and back. It was nice, breeze was lovely.
Dinner was on the balcony of a nearby restaurant. Huge serving of tomato kway teow, not half bad.
Bako tomorrow – should be awesome.
A bunch of day 7 photos can be found here - http://pics.livejournal.com/gemfyre/gallery/00011d3k
After breakfast we headed off to Semengoh Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre and had quite a bit of luck. Two adult females and their 3 young at the first feeding area, then another young one and the alpha male (named Richie) at the jungle feeding site. All babies are semi-wild and tickable.
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Mother and baby The adults of this colony were confiscated from the pet trade. Now they are successfully breeding and can fend for themselves in the wild, but they are helped out by the people at the centre when they need it. |
Birding was very frustrating but I bumped into someone also into birding. Got a great look at a sunbird. Then headed back for a break.
Ended up having lunch at a little Chinese place on the side of the road. Wasn’t too bad, I had sweet & sour pork ribs and rice. All up for 3 of us, including drinks was 16.20RM – around $7Au.
Afternoon was the city tour. Museum was interesting, many stuffed birds and animals as well as info on the native people and longhouses. Then had a look around the cat museum, a collection of every bit of cat paraphernalia you could imagine. I hope my kitties are doing okay back in Perth. Cruised around a lot of the rest of town and bought some fruit at a riverside stall. One stall was selling BBQ kebabs and stuff, including a kebab of chicken Parson’s Noses. Also stopped off at the local fresh/wet market. Mum bought some bananas (1RM for a large bunch) and I tried (and bought) some longsats, which look like chat potatoes on the outside and have white flesh inside that isn’t too bad. I got a bunch for 1RM so it wasn’t really a loss.
Back to the hotel again for a bit then out again for dinner and checking out the small river ferries. Usually it’s a 50sen fee to get across the river, but for 10RM we were taken half an hour up the river and back. It was nice, breeze was lovely.
Dinner was on the balcony of a nearby restaurant. Huge serving of tomato kway teow, not half bad.
Bako tomorrow – should be awesome.
A bunch of day 7 photos can be found here - http://pics.livejournal.com/gemfyre/gallery/00011d3k
Day 7 - Old Man Of The Jungle (9/7/06)
Jul. 24th, 2006 05:16 pmBreakfast here is much better. They have sushi (including unagi!) as well as a lot of other choices.
After breakfast we headed off to Semengoh Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre and had quite a bit of luck. Two adult females and their 3 young at the first feeding area, then another young one and the alpha male (named Richie) at the jungle feeding site. All babies are semi-wild and tickable.
Birding was very frustrating but I bumped into someone also into birding. Got a great look at a sunbird. Then headed back for a break.
Ended up having lunch at a little Chinese place on the side of the road. Wasn’t too bad, I had sweet & sour pork ribs and rice. All up for 3 of us, including drinks was 16.20RM – around $7Au.
Afternoon was the city tour. Museum was interesting, many stuffed birds and animals as well as info on the native people and longhouses. Then had a look around the cat museum, a collection of every bit of cat paraphernalia you could imagine. I hope my kitties are doing okay back in Perth. Cruised around a lot of the rest of town and bought some fruit at a riverside stall. One stall was selling BBQ kebabs and stuff, including a kebab of chicken Parson’s Noses. Also stopped off at the local fresh/wet market. Mum bought some bananas (1RM for a large bunch) and I tried (and bought) some longsats, which look like chat potatoes on the outside and have white flesh inside that isn’t too bad. I got a bunch for 1RM so it wasn’t really a loss.
Back to the hotel again for a bit then out again for dinner and checking out the small river ferries. Usually it’s a 50sen fee to get across the river, but for 10RM we were taken half an hour up the river and back. It was nice, breeze was lovely.
Dinner was on the balcony of a nearby restaurant. Huge serving of tomato kway teow, not half bad.
Bako tomorrow – should be awesome.
A bunch of day 7 photos can be found here - http://pics.livejournal.com/gemfyre/gallery/00011d3k
After breakfast we headed off to Semengoh Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre and had quite a bit of luck. Two adult females and their 3 young at the first feeding area, then another young one and the alpha male (named Richie) at the jungle feeding site. All babies are semi-wild and tickable.
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Mother and baby The adults of this colony were confiscated from the pet trade. Now they are successfully breeding and can fend for themselves in the wild, but they are helped out by the people at the centre when they need it. |
Birding was very frustrating but I bumped into someone also into birding. Got a great look at a sunbird. Then headed back for a break.
Ended up having lunch at a little Chinese place on the side of the road. Wasn’t too bad, I had sweet & sour pork ribs and rice. All up for 3 of us, including drinks was 16.20RM – around $7Au.
Afternoon was the city tour. Museum was interesting, many stuffed birds and animals as well as info on the native people and longhouses. Then had a look around the cat museum, a collection of every bit of cat paraphernalia you could imagine. I hope my kitties are doing okay back in Perth. Cruised around a lot of the rest of town and bought some fruit at a riverside stall. One stall was selling BBQ kebabs and stuff, including a kebab of chicken Parson’s Noses. Also stopped off at the local fresh/wet market. Mum bought some bananas (1RM for a large bunch) and I tried (and bought) some longsats, which look like chat potatoes on the outside and have white flesh inside that isn’t too bad. I got a bunch for 1RM so it wasn’t really a loss.
Back to the hotel again for a bit then out again for dinner and checking out the small river ferries. Usually it’s a 50sen fee to get across the river, but for 10RM we were taken half an hour up the river and back. It was nice, breeze was lovely.
Dinner was on the balcony of a nearby restaurant. Huge serving of tomato kway teow, not half bad.
Bako tomorrow – should be awesome.
A bunch of day 7 photos can be found here - http://pics.livejournal.com/gemfyre/gallery/00011d3k