What's Up Al ? 遊記隨筆 生活點滴

Kota Kinabalu is quite a pleasant town although most buildings were built after WW2 as the strategic township was bombed to pieces by the Allied Forces. We moved on after 2 relaxing days to the Mount Kota Kinabalu National Park that was a 2 hours bus ride from KK. Thanks must go to Mandy who organized a beautiful park lodge with all mod-cons in the middle of the jungle for us to stay in. But that didn’t stop the leeches from attacking my feet after a walk in the wet jungle as I found three of the blood suckers having a feast on my toes ! Luckily they came off pretty tamely after we torched them with a lighted mozzie-coil since “no amount of high-pitch screaming would help” as quoted in our guidebook.

Tenom – Beaufort Train Journey

Tenom is a small township surrounded by misty rolling hills in the southwest corner of Sabah; we like staying in out-of-the-way little towns during our travels to gain an insight into the local life. After an interesting walk-about in the evening in Tenom, we took the early train to Beaufort and we enjoyed the peaceful, uneventful and scenic journey that followed the path of the Sungai Padas. We were however not prepared for the horror when we reached Beaufort. We were greeted with >100 tourists fighting, climbing-thru-windows and generally extremely eager to get on our train to make the scenic journey back to Tenom. Luckily we pushed through the incoming crowds and made our way out of the Beaufort train station. Whew !

We caught a small boat from Menombok to the duty-free island of Labuan and found the island a pleasant place to relax for a few days. The weather was a perfect blue as we walked around the island in the balmy sea breeze and visited a number of WWII memorials, marine museums and even a mosque of such an incredible design - take a look below !