*yawns* hahah.. today woke up at 6am to see mt. kinabalu.. as it's only in the morning, the top is
not covered by clouds or by mist... after that 5mins of taking pic.. went back to slp.. and only
manage to wake up at ard 10am and we set off to the Sabah Tea plantation...
apparently the tea is super famous.. but it's really waYYY too ulu for pple to visit.. hahah for
many times.. we thot that we missed the turn into the plantation.. finally abt 20mins driving into
some weird lane.. we riched the plantation... and it was HUUUGE.. there were just hills and hills
tea planted... it didn't smelt like it was all tea as i was expecting.. apparently tea only smell nice
after it's been processed at the factory... oh well.. but still it was a nice place... very quiet..
we went ard to look at the factory and it smelt really nice.. and drove in alittle bit more.. and saw
this traditional long hse.. in the old times.. abt 30-40 family live in these hses.. along the long
long corridor with b lined with rms.. filled with diff family
we went back to the visitor centre to try out the tea.. as the roads were abit too rocky to continue in.. the tea taste is very rich.. hahah.. so i decided to grab some as souvenirs...
after that we headed towards Poring.. there's hot springs there...wahh.. i was totally looking forward to hot spring.. i seem to hav impression that i've been to hot spring before.. but i can't rem actual exp though...
when i reach there.. i was quite disappointed as the hot spring is not like those jap ones u see on tv but juz a hole dug into grd, they line the hole with tiles.. turning it into a tub and u fill it with
hot spring water.. (which takes abt 30mins to fill up the tub..) omg.. so forget it.. derek suggested
to go to the waterfall to hav a swim..
we walked along really mudded paths.. like pple go hiking like that.. and reached a mini-waterfall.. the water flow isn't very strong today.. affected by recent weather or something like that.. any way the water is SUPER clear... and cold as well.. went in there to play with derek, steffi and cousins. stood under the strong waterfall.. hahah feel abit like those pple u see in movie/cartoon practising gong fu or qi gong underwater fall.. ahhaha... took some photos as well.. but derek's dad hand shook and alot of the photos were blurred.. oh well. i shall b back to take better ones.. after we dried ourselves abit.. we went for the canopy walkway...
the canopy walkway is suppose to be famous.. and alot of researchers come here to do studies on the plants.. well.. if u still rem ya geog.. like how rainforest are categorised into several diff layers
and this walkway is built on top of trees.. to reach the top most layer of the forest at about 43m off grd..
it was a long way up though.. climbing stairs after stairs..steffi was dying before she reached the
first resting point...the walkway was not as scary as i thot.. though those who hav height phobia
might rather die then walk on the walkway..
the way they made the walkway is dodgy.. juz ladders tied with planks... my goodness. hahha n they very wad one.. if u wanna bring camera need to pay for camera's entry.. and u can't smuggle it in cos supposingly there's this guy on a watch tower that oversees the whole walkway.. u don't pay at entry they charge u more at exit...
at first i didn't noe the proper way to walk on the walkway and caused the thing to sway like mad.. ahhaa.. in the end derek found out and taught me the correct way to go which is one step in front of the other.. not like mine.. step left step right~ shuffling forward... hahahah it wasn't a long walk spent only like 10mins on the walkway, 10mins climbing up and another 10min going down...
on the way down.. saw mushrooms, and a tree that hav trunk similar to durian.. look abit like those spiked clubs...i was so scared that i will forget and stand up straight while walking under that tree wan whack my head on those thorns..
after the canopy walkway.. it was ard 3.30pm already.. and we need to start heading out to get lunch and also to drive back to the city...
on the way ard the mountain.. i was really surprised. cos why.. i thot mountain pple suppose to live quiet life.. with nothing much to do.. then every single hse i pass by at the mountain.. even the super ulu one.. where the hse is like the only one somewhere along the road.. they hav a satellite dish sticking out of the hse for cable tv. wad a non-matching pair.. mountain wood hse with satellite dish.. weird.
we stopped by a small town.. of whose name i forgot.. woops.. and had chicken rice there.. it was
horrible~ bleah.. well luckily we were hungry.. so everything went down.. derek's parents apologise for horrible food as they didn't noe the town too well as well.. hahaha i found KFC next to that horrible food place.. hahaha.. shld hav gotten tat instead.. but it's weird.. KFC... in the midst of mountains..open till 11pm somemore..
on the way back.. we pass by another town that had famous BBQ chicken wings and butt and "kidney" and we ate somemore again.. then it was end of the mountain trip and we headed back towards the city...
i slpt on the way back.. ahhaha too exhausted frm the day's activity..
reach back at derek's place at ard 7.30pm and had a light dinner of HUMONGOUS king prawns brought back frm Sundakhan by derek's dad...
at ard 9.30pm.. there were fireworks frm Jalan Gaya.. for the opening of the CNY festival at the st i think.. hahah i climbed onto his rubbish bin at the front of the hse to snap pics.. and got scolded by derek.. woopsss~.. oh well.. been a wonderful triP~
PS. for all the tourist attractions i went.. i pretended to b a malaysian.. as non-local are charged
at crazy prices like 2-3times of local price.. crazy man...
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