It has been a very busy week for me.... month perhaps! Sorry for the delayed updates. We just got back from Kuching, Sarawak and we loved it! The people there are extremely friendly and so helpful! Dominic & I landed in Kuching 2hrs before JB folks and somehow we managed to check in to the Crown Plaza very easily.
The first day was a lot of walking along the river front shop looking for nice gifts or wooden stuff for the house. We saw pretty interesting items especially their local musical instruments. I love the sounds it made. We walked further along until we reached an Anglican Cathedral (St. Thomas). From outside, the architecture looked really beautiful. Such a long driveway and the compound was pretty big. We carried on walking past the cat museum until we reach the Roman Catholic Cathedral of St Joseph (Grandpa’s church?!) and oh my..... What a fantastic design it is! You can find some nice photographs of it here.
After the energetic & vibrant mass, we meet a local Indian family outside who were nice enough to invite us for a pilgrimage up Mount Sinai. Dominic, Doreen & I sighed when the wife said "We're leaving at 8:00am!" hahahahha...... so bad, right? You see, we already had our days planned for and there’s no time to waste (exception to sleeping in)!!!
On our 2nd day, we took a cab out to Damai Beach Resort. Wow!!! The beach is beautiful! It was an extremely hot afternoon, so the beach was rather empty. I'm guess they didn't have any European / American guest for the day? From there, we went to the Sarawak Cultural Village. We saw 7 different tribal homes and the local dances. I loved the company I was with but I think it would have been way too boring if Dom & I took the trip alone. Furthermore, RM60 per person is steep :-p Doreen & I were the only adults that day! Other’s got away with senior citizen’s rate & student’s rate.
Once back at the hotel, we had a quick shower and it was off for yummy seafood at Top Spot, Kuching's best halal seafood joint. We tried from ABC Seafood and the taste was fantastic, but I thought the price was a bit much...... was it just me? Everything here seemed expensive :-(On the 3rd day, we left late morning for Bako National Park. Except for Dom, none of us knew what we were in for! I don't think I've even been on a proper jungle trek until then! After riding the boat through croc infested waters, mum was a bit upset the tide was too low for the boat to take us to the jetty...... we had to get a little wet, but we survived. Doreen kept screaming while walking on the sand with baby crabs running all over the place. hahahahha.... That was hilarious!!! See here a photo of us on our trail.
After 2 hot hours, we finally arrived at the cliff and the view made it all so worth it! See the picture below.
I didn't waste a moment changing once I got down from the cliff (another 15mins trail)! Straight into the water!!! Mum said "This is so worth it! I feel like we're in heaven!" and I couldn't agree more :-)))
That night, we met up with dad's friend who took us back to Top Spot at another seafood restaurant and treated us to a fantastic spread that included prawns & lobsters! Such a nice couple and I didn't know dad and him have been friends for at least 12yrs!!!!!
Oh well...... that was our adventure! I did leave out some luxurious details we enjoyed, but I'll leave that to when we meet :-) See ya!
