1Borneo @ Kota Kinabalu - Sabah Trip 4

Here we are, the brand new 1Borneo Shopping Complex, the biggest shopping mall in Borneo.
Located at about 15mins drive from KK city.

On our arrival, we saw a group of performer monks were getting themselves ready at the centre hall for some demonstration. I've captured one of them, just see the clip below.


鐵頭功 ~ Iron Head Monks


We went for lunch at the restaurant, JAWS Seafood Restaurant, located on the Ground Floor of 1Borneo.

This is the menu.

Seafood Fried Rice, with prawns, crabs, mussels and some meat for RM10.00
Contained!

This is 'Assam' Mee Hun (rice noodle)...big prawns!

Alot of shops!

There is a bowling alley in the complex also...30 lanes in total.

Pool tables can be found at the bowling alley.

And on the same floor, you can find this 'cave'.
Well, it is not a cave lah....it is called "Borneo Rainforest'

See it?

Here is the ticket costing for entering.

At the entrance, a yellow colored snake has been placed on a table.
Take photo with the snake for RM10.00

So, here what you will see inside the cave.
All species are keep in glass.

One of my family members, lizard family.

Near relative, Triangle Headed Iguana.

We took the free shuttle bus back to city, which is provided by the Mall.
The only thing you have to do is get your ticket 30mins before the bus depart.

The bus brings you to & from 1Borneo, about 20mins per way.
Well, a nice air-conditioned & FREE bus service. 5/5 for the bus.
Overall, the 1Borneo having a similar layout as Midvalley in KL, very similar.
4 hotels surrounding the 1Borneo and a few apartments are on the way up.

That ended my KK trip. Wonderful exploration to the natural & new infra.
PS: Game center can be found there too! I didn't take any photo of them.

Mount KK & Hot Spring @ Kota Kinabalu - Sabah Trip 3

On the 4th day, we hired a 'van sapu' for a day trip to the Mountain & Hot Spring.
We had 10 persons as a group, and the van+ the driver cost us RM600 in total.

We stopped by half way, for a rest/washroom/food& drink/ and some photo taking.
Here is the wide angle view of the Mount KK which I have taken it at the stop.

Disappointingly luck was not so good, we couldn't see the whole mountain as the peak was covered by the cloud.

Here, we reached the Kinabalu Park, the base of the mountain.
We had a good walk-around at the park. Abit cold, feeling like in a aircon room.

If you see this board next time you go there, you are just 4km away from the mountain peak.

Another 1hr+ drive from the Kinabalu Park to the Hot Spring.

This is the map of the Hot Spring area.

These pools with roof are for you to enjoy the warm water from the Hot Spring.

This is where the warm water come from.

We then walked for another 15-20 mins into the area, there is a waterfall. Can't remember the name of the waterfall.

Just nice to cool your feet down abit.

Around 4pm, the driver took us to a small town for lunch before we headed back to the city.
I took this view on the way back. The cloud is in a circular shape covering the peak.

Everyone was tired and napped in the van.

Manukan Island @ Kota Kinabalu - Sabah Trip 2

3rd day morning after having breakfast, we headed to the Jetty....on the way to MANUKAN Island for a day trip.

From the Jetty, you can see another new shopping complex coming up - SURIA KK.
It is scheduled to complete in Year 2010. According to the locals, it is slightly smaller than 1Borneo.

All passengers onboard, ready to go. Yeah!

Arrived Manukan Island.
Beautiful beach, nice weather.

Packed with visitors, it was a Sunday!

Piu~Wi~ a "CABO" lying on the beach, did you see it?
Look closer.

Here it is..."CABO", that's what I mean.

Hey you. You're shooting others, I'm shooting you.

Cystal clear water which you can see the fish.

We had about 5-6hrs on the Island, did some seaside diving & lunch at the beach. Back to KK mainland around 5pm.

The boat we hired was RM204 per boat (12 persons max.), and some TAX @ RM6 per pax.
Some advise to you, bring your own food over to the Island if you plan to stay over the lunch. Those food on the Island are not cheap, luckily we brought some sandwich & drink.

KK City @ Kota Kinabalu - Sabah Trip

Touched down at KK airport, 12.15am mid night!!! Thanks to AirAsia.com
Who so called 're-scheduled' my booking from afternoon flight to 10.30pm (email & sms me to inform 2 weeks before flight. Well, it's not your fault...AirAsia.com, really...)
Well, a day wasted. Tired...went checked in directly to the hotel for a rest.

Next morning, got this KK info booklet from the Hotel counter.
Something is not right on this page, did you notice it?
6th row, "introduse"???!!!

Ya, you do have a new outlook with "introduse" in one of your pages.

I have to say, it's handy as it has KK city map attached at the back.

So, we headed on to the seaside (waterfront) in the morning after a light breakfast. and then a good walkabout around the town.

Fishy Roundabout?

This is where we dined for dinner, "Rainforest Cafe".

Relaxing with a few bottles that night.

Big umbrella, live band, ang moS.... & many many bottles.

Even the Sugar Bun there looks different. Much better.

Seafood @ Kota Kinabalu - Sabah Trip 1

This is the restaurant we dined in for some seafood.
Nothing to shout about the dishes we ordered. Thinking on the other side, we felt we were somehow 'conned' by them. 1st dishes intro by the Boss was 'Hot & Cold Dishes' with 5 types of food, that cost us RM120.00 !!! We've ordered total of 3 dishes plus 5 coconut drinks, Bill = RM180++....sharp knife!

Well, interesting things are where the opened-air area, where all the live seafood are.

BIG lobster !

They put those prawn in plastic bottle. ~ 'Lai-Liu-Ha', that's the name in Cantonese.

These shells are big too...about the size of a tennis ball.

Fresh!

Crabby!