The weeks in brief: 22 July – 4 August
Well, we’ve been away for the past two weeks (we’re on our way back home today – hooray for prescheduled posts – thanks PastAgnes) so there is a fair bit to this update. Hi! Strap yourselves in!
Alastair and I spent the past two weeks in Kuching and Kota Kinabalu and friends it was warm and we ate all the things. Except for when we got to KK and I became Not Quite Right. 😐
Kuching was cool though. We had an awesome view from our room and watched a lot of sunsets.
In Kuching, our routine was mostly: go out in the morning for an activity, have lunch, head back to the hotel in the afternoon, rest for a couple of hours, have beer and snacks hour (very important, everyone needs beer and snacks hour during a holiday), watch the sunset, go out for dinner. Repeat repeat.
What else did we do? Errr… walked along the waterfront? This is the New Sarawak State Legislative Assembly Building.
Prettttty.
We ate the food.
Ate the seafood.
Ate more seafood.
We visited Bako National Park and saw monkeys and bearded pigs and wandered through the jungle in inappropriate footwear.
We went to the orangutan sanctuary and saw the orangutans (!!!).
We found a food festival! (Actually, our driver who took us to the orangutan sanctuary told us about it, but it sounds better when I say we found it.)
We went to the food festival twice – it ran for three weeks or something. And on both nights we went there were tons of people there and so many stalls. Amazing.
Ate all the things again.
Including these piggy buns. So cute, they were so hard to eat. 🙁
We also took a cooking class in Kuching, and the morning started with a wander around the market.
Cleanest market ever.
And then we cooked lunch. It was so fun!
I will write up the cooking class properly. It was great.
Then we flew to Kota Kinabalu. The weather in KK has been all over the place – hot (always) but super sunny one day, cloudy the next, pouring with rain another day. So only one sunset shot from KK.
In KK we also ate the seafood.
And we went to Kinabalu National Park.
It was the pretty.
(Not these scrawny guys – the park in general.)
We also saw the world’s largest flower – the rafflesia – which only blooms once every year or so and the flowers only last for 6 days.
In KK Alastair spent several days diving, while I pottered around.
I basically walked the length of the town (and can I say that it’s not a town that’s pedestrian friendly. Neither is Kuching for that matter.)
Aaaaand I got a bit sick (just a general Not Quite Right-ness) so apart from Alastair’s diving, activities were very limited. We mostly just enjoyed our flash hotel (an upgrade from our original rubbish hotel where the toilets didn’t flush properly. We became best friends with the maintenance guy, poor fellow. Thankfully the SFBS group and Alastair talked sense into me and we changed hotels.).
Okay, here’s some food.
And here’s some drinks. See that coconut? I swear it had like a litre of (not very good) coconut juice in it.
Yellow watermelon. It’s just like red watermelon but yellow…
Anyway, the NQR feeling is why there’s very few pictures (food and otherwise) from KK. Ho hum.
And soon… we’ll be back in Melbourne. It feels like we’ve been away for AGES and AGES. I hope it’s not cold… 😐
Keren
August 5, 2013 @ 2:46 pm
Looks like there was much fun had, the scenery and food look stunning. Pity about the NQRness … sick on holiday stinks so much worse than sick at home 🙁
Agnes
August 12, 2013 @ 9:44 pm
It was so lovely to be away, even with the NQRness. 🙂
Lisa
August 5, 2013 @ 6:21 pm
Love the sunset photos! And the piggy buns. And beer and snacks hour …
Agnes
August 12, 2013 @ 9:44 pm
Piggy buns were sooo cute. I don’t know how I managed to eat them.
Annette
August 6, 2013 @ 5:58 pm
Looks like a great time apart from the dreaded NQR. What a bummer……seems to happen when on holiday though! Hope you are not finding it too cold at home! But glad you had such a relaxing and interesting time. Looks like a good place to visit.
Agnes
August 12, 2013 @ 9:45 pm
It’s a bit colder here… 🙁
Sarawak Tour
August 7, 2013 @ 5:18 pm
nice articles and nice photo! You have tried all the local delights! Welcome to Sarawak once again to explore to more places and unveil the beauty of the other nature of Sarawak…..
Agnes
August 12, 2013 @ 9:45 pm
Thanks 🙂
leaf (the indolent cook)
August 8, 2013 @ 9:43 pm
Eat ALL the things! Sorry you got a bit sick though. But so jealous you got to see so many things, including orangutans!
Agnes
August 12, 2013 @ 9:46 pm
I ate all the things! (Until I couldn’t. Nevermind.)
Orangutans were soooo cool.
Daisy@Nevertoosweet
August 9, 2013 @ 12:28 am
I think we went away around at the same time 😀 I remember seeing your photos on Instagram!!!
Omg Yellow watermelon I remember they use to sell it at Safeway ages and ages ago but I haven’t seen them for so long! KK is definitely on my to-go list one day !
Agnes
August 12, 2013 @ 9:48 pm
Yellow watermelon… I had to buy it because it was yellow. 😀 It did taste the same as normal watermelon though!
msihua (@msihua)
August 11, 2013 @ 10:01 pm
So so so much food! I want an orang utan!
Agnes
August 12, 2013 @ 9:50 pm
I’ll bring you back one next time. :p