Company Trip to Kota Kinabalu - Day 2 (Nov 2010)

Day 2 started really early!  The automatic alarm aka. the phone rang at 0545Hr.  I picked up the phone, half in dream land, said "Hello"  And i heard from the other end "This is your automated alarm..."  I went urghhh and went back to sleep, thinking that I have my alarm at 0615Hr.  15 minutes later, the phone rang agin!!  Urghh..Ok, we needed to get up, Rachel. 

Rachel was like a zombie beside me, she mumbered, Headache, stood up and went to take a painkiller.  I told her to get more rest while I went to wash up.  This was really not what I have signed up for.  Anyway, I dragged myself to the bathroom.  Rachel woke up much later, and I went down to have breakfast.

I was surprised to see Tim at the breakfast area.  "How did he manage to wake up so early after drinking so much?!"  I only knew when I was back in Singapore that Tim had terrible hangover.   Andrew, my MD was much annoyed that I wore my Man Utd jersey again (Blue one this time).  So he said he wanted to support Aston Villa tonight..haha.. Breakfast was fine til N sat down at the same table..oh well, I have to learn to be loving, so i decided to carry on my breakfast.

We departed for our 3 hours bus ride to the Canopy Tree Top walk.  During the journey, we made a couple of rest stop. One of them was the same stop that I made when I was there in August 2010, hmm..deja vu.

Mountain View.  Ah, i was there before :-)

 Natural Toilet.

 These were taken at one of the stops that we made, some fruits market.  We were supposed to go to the Canopy Walk, however due to some change in plans, we had an early lunch instead.  On our way to lunch, the bus stopped at a fruit market.  I think it was a plot by the guide to buy time.

 3 women deciding what fruits to buy

 These had nothing to do with lunch.  Just some flowers outside the lunch place, which was at some restaurant in a resort, near the foot of the mountain.  You could smell the fresh air.

This was the place where we had lunch

Start of the canopy walk

The hot springs were disappointing.  If you thought you were going to get the Onsen in Japan, then you would be very disappointed.  They looked more like swimming pool and hot water in tubs.  So we decided to pass it, and went for the water fall that was 400m away.

You couldn't see the fishes from the photo, but Adrian was doing his fish spa.

Photo courtesy of Dino, who was using my camera.  The smoke was to chase away flies and mosquitoes.

World largest flower- Rafflesia.

We had to pay RM25 to see Rafflesia, and it was disappointing as I was expecting it to be bigger.  But then again, I missed it the last time, so made up for it this time.  Andrew and the managers skipped the flower and stayed on the bus as they said they wanted to discuss something important.  When we were back to the bus, they were playing black jack!!  Very important indeed.

We travelled another daunting 3 hours bus journey back to the dinner place.  My plan to have Ba Gu Teh after dinner was spoilt by the heavy rain.  According to Dino, I have never been to KK because i did not get to eat their Ba Gu Teh.  We ended the day with foot massage and indian poker with the boys and Andrew!