Just came back from Kuching yesterday, it was a good and exciting trip, minus some emotions breakdown by some unnecessary people.
Booked the airticket to Kuching December last year I guess, and waited for half a year to go to Kuching. The tickets were real cheap, is only RM100+ for both ways. Initially booked the trip for a week, but later came to think that it was too long to spend in Kuching, so I booked other flight back few days earlier on FireFlyz.
So here goes some itinerary of my Kuching trip, just a brief one though...
Our flight was on 709, Saturday, 11.45am, suppose to meet at KL Sentral at 9am but decided to make it earlier as it was 709 (Bersih rally), hence we met at 8am instead, means we left my house at 7am. Gosh, all bcoz of 709....
1st day (which is 709), we arrived in Kucing airport around 1.30pm, successfully picked up our rented car at 2pm, but took us like so long to reach the hotel and checked in, as we were going in rounds, coz I forgotten to bring along my GPS, hahaha...BUT we reached safely, plus point....
Went to look for KOLO mee (must try when u r in Kuching), manage to locate one, which was the best among all kolo mee(s) we tried. After late lunch, we walked around town, went to Tua Pek Kong Temple and waterfront too. Took some silly photos and had a long walk along the waterfront. Too much of walking landed us a 40min foot massage after that, dirt cheap, only rm25. Drove around town and had dinner in a chinese restaurant near LimeTree hotel, not bad though.
We stayed in 360 Express Hotel, good choice, cheap and clean and convenient too. Will review the hotel in the next post. Landed in bed 2-3am, dead drop on the bed after shower, was really tired...
2nd day (710) - Had breakfast at a hawker stall just opposite the hotel, had kolo mee again, but it was one of the worst mee I had, it was so dry until we wanna puke, haha...had to add in clear soup to finish it. Then we headed to Sarawak Museum, heard that it is one of the best one in Malaysia. And yes, there were lots to see there, I would recommend this to anyone who wanna tour Kuching. We drove to Jong's Crocodile Farm which was 25km out of town, but it was worthy. And then came the best part of the tour, which is the RWMF 2o11, we spent like 5-6 hours in the Sarawak Cultural Village and it was really exciting to be part of the festival. So much to see, so much to listen, so much to feel.... Again, landed in bed 2-3am too.
3rd day (711) - Went around to look for this hawker stall which was published on the pamphlet (it mentioned that it is a MUST go place to have good sarawakian food), and went we reached there, we were sadden by the food, nothing much to scream about the place. After lunch, we headed to Semenggoh Wildlife Center 20+km from city, lucky that feeding time for Orang Utan was 3-4pm, we manage to catch up. The ranger started calling out for them since 3pm and we waited like almost 45min, the orang utans then showed up and grabbed the bananas. How sad right? Only manage to look at them from far like 5-10 minutes...anyway, worth the entrance fees of RM3, kekekek...
Left and drove the never ending road to Annah Rais Longhouse, we stopped by several times to ask for directions and to make sure we are heading to the correct direction. And finally we did, after driving cross the never-ending road, haha... a well- worth experience.
Headed to the biggest shopping mall in Kuching, called "The Spring", had dinner there and did some shopping as well.
4th day (712) - Checked out from the city hotel and drove to our next destination, which is Permai Rainforest Resort. It is located in Damai, very near to the Sarawak Cultural Village that we went 2 nights back. We rented a treehouse to spend our night there, nice experience. After checking in, we took some rest and went for jungle trekking with our slippers, haha...and only to find out the waterfall was so tiny after our 1 hour trek, we decided to follow the same way back out, rather disappointed. Went to the beach and jungle pool to spend the evening, though the water wasn't clear, but the sunset was real nice.
5th day (713) - Checked out and flew back to KL on Fireflyz. Funny thing was I thought we were landing at Subang airport, only came to realize we are landing at KLIA after checking with the air stewardess, bikin malu saje, hahaha...
OK, that's all for my trip, will add in some photos later...
