The Land Beneath The Winds

June 23rd, 2008 | Posted by Sharon Joy

My Little Southeast Asia Adventure – Fourth Stop: Sabah, Malaysia

After spending a little more than a week with my parents in Sarawak, I flew to Kota Kinabalu on the 11th of June because I wanted to be with the monkeys on my birthday. Since there was no direct flight from Bintulu to KK, I had to take a 4 hour bus trip to the city of Miri and took a plane from there to KK. Kota Kinabalu is the capital of Sabah, which is the other state in Malaysian Borneo. Since there lots of really cheap but clean and homey guesthouses in the city, I decided to live it up like a real backpacker instead of couchsurf. So I checked in at Borneo Backpackers Guesthouse which was really awesome, and we had free internet and wi-fi. I shared a dorm with 6 other backpackers, and pay only RM20 (Malaysian Ringgit) which is about Php260 a night.

First night, I went out with a couchsurfer Suchen, and his friends Chris and Kwan. (Refer to this post) The next day, I went to Lok Kawi, a wildlife park about half an hour away from the city because I told myself I want to be with ze monkees on my 30th birthday. I was supposed to stay there for 3 days but had to cut my stay short because of a flight schedule problem (which I’ll talk about in my next post). Suchen was going to have a barbecue party Friday night and I’m so sorry to miss it. I met Jaci, another couchsurfer from KK on my last day and I like her a lot too… She was very much an evil ampao girl!

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