Thursday, April 16, 2009

My real KK trip

15th - 21st April 2009
Finally, my very 1st holiday! After almost 10 months of planning (or after purchasing my “free” flight from AirAsia), I am finally going for a real holiday trip to KK. This is my 4th trip to KK but the 1st time I’m going to do what most tourist do. Climb Mt. Kinabalu and White Water Rafting in the Padas River.

After arriving in KK town, we had a late lunch and walked around in Centrepoint. My friends did some shopping at the Nike and Adidas outlets. They seem to have 50% for certain items.

I managed to meet up with Janet and Eric for dinner. We took a drive quite far from town. I think it was at least 40mins from KK town to Gayang Seafood Restaurant. We ate so much seafood on the 1st day of my trip. Wow, the shrimps were huge! We stayed at Marina Court Condominium, located very strategically near the malls.





On the 2nd day, our van took us to Kinabalu National Park. It is almost 2 hours away from KK Town. There, we visited the Kinabalu Park exhibition. We also went for a 30mins walk on the Poring Treetop Canopy Walkway. We were told this should be a little warm up to our long walk up Mt K.

After that we get to soak our legs in the hot spring water. The water was really hot but nice and relaxing. We then check into the Kinabalu Pine Resort. The view from the resort was really magnificent. We got a good view of our “target” for the next day.

5 comments:

Stephanie said...

Julia Law, show la pictures of you at the peak of Mt. Kinabalu. The dishes of seafood... makes me crave for prawns now :-( Nonetheless, good to know that both you and Fui Ping enjoyed this trip :-) Isn't this a holiday worth going? Free flight, 50% sales etc... so shiok!

jules said...

oh, i enjoyed it like crazy. still can't get over it.

wait la, i still have 4 more post for this trip. just waiting to get some photos to go with the post. :)

Deborah Ng said...

Eh... good post.. but like halfway only. Haha... glad u had a great time :) U should do this more often!! Next time I'm coming along...

whyen said...

"little" warm up at the canopy.. suit very well as compare to that "target".. but that little warm up have made the heart racing as well cause it's so high up on those giant trees!

jules said...

eh, u also afraid of heights ka? haha. i'm really afraid of heights but it make the whole experience a whole lot more thrilling and exciting.