Dec 15, 2007

Seramat Pagi

The first name of our SE Asia passage was Brunei, which is a waste of time if staying more than 1 day. It's a very wealthy Sultanate and besides the town on water, the monkeys and the mosque, there is not much to see.

So Malaysia, namely KK (Kota Kinabalu) was an easy choice. It's the capital of Sabah (the northern malaysian part).
It's hot and humid here (duuuh, we're just above the equator line). It rains everyday around the same time in the evening but there is no real rush to run into cover.
Terima Kasih is our word of choice to make the locals giggle. It means "thank you" and us being some of the few westerners around, it's easy to understand why.
This place is not overly touristy (yet) and prices are (very) decent. We can eat for 5-10 Ringet, which converts 1:5 with EUR.

A normal routine goes around, taking a boat to a nearby island and enjoy its beach, snorkle and/or dive, come back, have dinner while seating outside next to the ocean followed by have an hour-long massage, stroll through the markets, have some local snacks...

I'll go more in depth the next time, I can't spend too much time online right now and post pictures.

n.-

1 comments:

Paulo Carrasco said...

Yeah! :) keep those post comin'!

Abraço do carrasco ;)