Kota Kinabalu, Sabah 2017 Trip

Assalamualaikum!

Alahai....lama betul lah pwincess tak ber-blog ye....punyelah banyak cite...tapi tak sempat-sempat nak buat entry. Ni pun buat entry pasal mata tak dapat nak lelap memalam buta ni haih... apa-apa pun, pwincess cube blog latest trip kitaorang sementara tengah fresh ni lagi kan. Kesahnya...Encik Mon bawak kitaorang satu family sesaja cuti ke Sabah minggu lepas...kire  hadiah birthday pun ye jugak :)

21 April 2017 (Thursday)

We took an evening flight to KK from Miri Airport and arrived in KKIA 50 minutes later. We hired a Grab car and checked into Grand Borneo Hotel, that was the nearest hotel to the airport. Hotel was decent but there was no lift...so we had to haul our luggage up to level 3 (!). 

Rest for the night. 

22 April 2017 (Friday)

Checked out and waited for our car at the lobby...but our car was delayed. Pity the kids, they were asking for breakfast...luckily there was a restaurant in front of our hotel so we headed there. 2 bowls of soto, 1 plate of fried vermicelli with beef, 2 glasses of coffee and 1 glass of honey lemon cost about RM29...kinda pricey if you look at the portion and quality of food served...oh well. 

At last, we got our car. Sped off to the post office for an errand and after that to Imago Shopping Mall. Our holiday has begun....yeay!!

Asalnya nak beli hadiah birthday kat Imago ... sekali takde stok pula ... terpaksa pergi ke Suria Shopping Mall petang nanti. Habiskan round keliling Imago, sempatlah tick off dari checklist and then kitaorang terus ke Suria. Dapatlah akhirnya...hati sudah gumbira, kita pun check in lah hotel. This time around kitaorang stay di Celyn Hotel, pasal plan nye nak jalan kaki je around situ (pasar, makan seafood, etc). Hotel ni ada tangga sikit before dapat naik lif, so kalau ada luggage besar, nak kena take note. Bilik ok lah .... cuma aircond tu ada bau asap rokok sikit huhu. That night, we planned to have dinner di Nandos Oceanus Waterfront Mall tapi pasal kitaorang dapat parking cun, tak sampai hati nak drive pulak. Aper lagi ... grab car ler jawab nye! RM2.00 je .. best.

23 April 2017 (Saturday)

Pagi tu lepas breakfast, kitaorang round shopping brooch sikit dengan kedai RM2.50 pastu makan lokan dengan puding kelapa kat Jalan Sulaman macam biasa. Kali ni, gerai yang kitaorang biasa gi macam dah takde, so main terjah je lah mana2. Okaylah, even our boy pun suka makan.

Malam dinner kat tempat seafood berhampiran dengan landmark ikan todak ke apa tu.

Siput dalam cengkerang tu liat rupanya....beli lah try, seb baik dia potong kecik-kecik so boleh tolerate lagi keliatan dia. Latok beli sepiring je ... and tup-tup jadi kesukaan my boy. dia sorang je lah perabihkan.

24 April 2017 (Sunday)

Lepas breakfast, kitaorang terus ke Kundasang. Singgah dulu pasar filipina untuk beli mangga, boleh potong makan di hotel nanti.

.....Hellooooo Kundasang!

the iconic roundabout

Checked into Pines Resort. Ada breakfast and dinner so dah takyah susah2 cari tempat makan. The resort has prepared a set of food for each dayso we just come to dine at the dining hall. (reminds me of my asrama days).

Bilik kitaorang hujung ... tingkat satu. budak2 suka betul lepak kat anjung. Lepas dah freshen up, kitaorang gerak ke fish spa ... we thought it would be fun for the kids to play with fish ... 

Pwincess tetap penggeli ... lil pwincess pun ikut mama ... geli betul dengan ikan-ikan kat kaki. dalam banyak-banyak ikan kelah ... ada tersesat ikan keli ... besar weii .... takut jugak kalau kena sengat. Dah sudah tu, kitaorang gi ladang teh ... saja melawat kawasan ...ada pembaharuan laa dari segi tempat nak snap gambar ... 

Malam tu, terus dinner disediakan kat Pines Resort .... berselera pulak makan panas-panas pulak tu hujan malam tu ...

25 April 2017 (Monday)

Good morning! Pagi tu breakfast kat Pines ... pilih nasi goreng kampung dan nasi lemak. not bad rasanya. Lepas tu terus ke Desa Cattle farm.

Cow Barn at the back

Suka betul the kids feed the animals (susu sebotol - RM1.00)

Anak lembu pun suka jugak....seen here the cattle trying to kiss lil pwincess

Ada juga feed the anak kambing (rumput seikat RM1.50)

Best lah gi desa cattle farm kali ni, especially the feeding animals part. Yang tak bestnya, beratur nak beli susu desa panjang sangat-sangat. So we decided not to join the queue pasal tak silap, my friend ada sebut desa milk ada je jual kat kebanyakan supermarket in KK. Lepas exit from cattle farm, kitaorang saje drive sampai ke atas-atas sana tu ... tapi agak mandom dan tak nampak pun kinabalu peak. The kids pun dah tertido pun dalam kereta ... maybe because hujan jugak lah. Last-last kitaorang drive turun balik ke pekan kundasang, isi minyak kereta dan singgah makan lunch di Intan's restorant & cafe, dan beli buah-buahan potong untuk makan kat bilik. Later in the afternoon, we went out again cari kedai craft to buy some felt for some school project. Singgah Jakel beli kain perca and then went to 1Borneo mall .... balik ke hotel...rest....

26 April 2017 (Monday)

Get ready to return to KK ... bye bye kundasang, till we meet again next time ...

Customary Kinabalu Pine Resort picture

misi mencari susu desa di supermarket bermula ... singgah di Giant tak jumpa ... plan nak pegi ke survey, tup-tup nampak Desa Mart dari tepi jalan ... detour lah apa lagi ....

Dah ada perisa susu baru .. coffee .. if not mistaken it's RM6.30 ... can't beat DARE

They also have Desa Roasted Chickens ... nmpk yummy

They also have other flavours of milk but not packed in a box. Seen here is the yam and mango milk

Next, terkocoh-kocoh nak singgah ke Pasar Dry Food pula, terasa nak beli rumpai laut kering and also avocado. Did I tell earlier, we just discovered about ikan bilis mata biru? All this while, tau ikan bilis kopek, tak kopek, besar, kecik, never heard of mata biru. But I heard so many good raves about these blue eyed gems of late, so we hauled 2 packs; satu saiz besar and satu kecik. They really have blue eyes, man!

So that's about our trip to KK ... happy happy ... dapat celebrate birthday kat sana, dapat birthday present lagi hehe ... doakan rezeki kami sekeluarga melimpah ruah ye...

Roadtrip 2015 : Brunei - Kota Kinabalu (Part 3)

16 Oct 2015

Hari ni hujan turun dari awal pagi lagi ..... kita pun tunggu lah kat otel sampai hujan reda sikit .... tunggu punye tunggu tapi tak reda-reda jugak tapi mood masing-masing dah ke laut .... anak-anak pun dah start flu ...hmm. So today we decided to do sightseeing secara indoor .... ke Imago KK Times Square mall kita....yee haaahh!

Mall ni baru dibuka tahun ni (2015) dan mall ni besar sangat-sangat. Kedai-kedai yang dibuka pun macam Times Square KL sana nun .... semuanya high end brands. Since kitaorang pun memang target nak have lunch here, so teruslah ke tingkat paling bawah sekali and decided untuk lunch kat Dubuyo. Happy gak because dah lama tak pekena makanan korean ....di Sabah ketemu pula :)

Dah nak exit baru teringat nak snap gambaq, snap gambaq Apartment dia je lah

Happy ye adik manis

Kat sini first time tengok Kurtos Spiroll tataulah kat KL sana ada ke tak ... so kita pun beli nak try ... sedap gak. Lepas tu, kitaorang takeaway YoYo Bubble Tea .... my friend recommended minum YoYo ni, katanya sedap and dia guna fresh milk (i wonder if derang guna susu Desa Dairy Farm?).

- Lokan Bakar dan Puding Kelapa

Haaaa .... ini pun kitaorang revisit ikut trip 2011 dulu tu ... sapa nak baca boleh klik SINI. Location tak berubah, masih lagi di area Sepanggar, Jalan Sulaman tapi ..... gerai hujung yang kitaorang makan dulu tu dah takda. Tatau lah the next best gerai yang mana satu ... so strategy kitaorang is mencari gerai yang ada tanda Bismillah. Tengah cari-cari tanda tu .... tup-tup terjumpa gerai nama 'Bersamamu' di celah-celah deretan gerai yang banyak tu. Terus park dan pilih lokan. Tapi hat ni tak sama macam dulu tu .... dulu sambal cili limau ....hat ni warna kuning2 hijau.

Balik dari Sepanggar tu, kitaorang singgah Servay kejap untuk beli beberapa barang rumah yang kehabisan pastu balik otel dulu untuk bagi can pada my boy mandi swimming pool sebelum keluar balik untuk beli dinner. Kali ni nak try masakan seafood dari area waterfront. Baca blog-blog yang extremist kata masakan seafood situ bukan saja murah, dimasak oleh orang melayu Islam (halal) tapi sedap pulak tu .... membuatkan kitaorang teruja nak try.

Area swimming pool

Byk sgt gerai, kalau rajin try lah survey satu-satu. Encik Mon tak survey terus beli ja. tapi ni bukan tempat kitaorang beli malam tu.

gila-gila kan tengok seafood banyak gitu .... tapi  bila kitaorang makan kan, alahai. kurang fresh. ada masakan yang sedap, ada yang biasa sangat. takpelah, alhamdulillah dapat jugak makan, kan :)

17 Oct 2015

Hari ni our last day here. Masa mula-mula tu macam banyak sangat masa dan tak banyak tempat nak dituju. So kitaorang agak santai. Memula gi beli pearl kat tempat biasa - Jamilah.

- Jamilah Jewellery

Kat sini yang paling banyak makan masa ... hewhew. Biasalah kan, pompuan ;p
Asalnya, kejap je ... grab je pearl jenis apa, warna apa. Pasal amek yang jenis dah siap kan. Yang buat lamanya ... nak cari tone yang matching antara rantai dengan gelang. adehhh. berpinar mata. pastu nak matchy-matchy pulak dengan anak dara nye set. makan masa lagi hehehe. Little girl dah start demam ... so kdg-kdg cranky. Little boy pulak excited gila berada dalam kedai tu ... Encik Mon je lah yang masih waras menjadi time keeper.

- Hard Rock Cafe Kota Kinabalu

Kitaorang pecut ke Oceanus Waterfront Mall untuk pergi ke Hard Rock Cafe KK. Ingat nak beli souvenir. Kelakar gak, masa gi kat Hard Rock Melaka takde pulak terasa nak beli kan. Memula kitaorang place order untuk takeaway lunch kat Nandos pastu g shopping kat HRC. Seb baik dekat-dekat je kedai dua ni. Snappy snappy gambar sikit pastu terus balik hotel and pack dan check out. First time gi KK tak singgah pasar filipina. hari ini dalam sejarah.

challenging nak snap gambar family

sama tak

Masa dah on the road, hujan turun, makin lama makin lebat .... singgah kejap di sebuah masjid before Papar untuk solat jamak, makan nandos pastu teruskan perjalanan balik. Alhamdulillah, really enjoyed this roadtrip :)

Those who missed part 1 and 2, the links are as below.....thanks for those yang bersabar melayan pwincess nye ramblings ~

Roadtrip 2015 : Brunei - Kota Kinabalu (Part 1)

Roadtrip 2015 : Brunei - Kota Kinabalu (Part 2)

Roadtrip 2015 : Brunei - Kota Kinabalu (Part 2)

15 Oct 2015

We had breakfast at the hotel, we could eat anything and everything because they only served vegetarian food. Our boy enjoyed himself as he got chocolate cupcake with icing for breakfast for the first time. Seriously, cupcake for breakfast? *facepalm*

Now that our tummies are full, we are happy to start off our day ;)

Our first stop was the Rumah Terbalik and 3D Wonders Museum. These were not opened in our last visit to Sabah in 2011 so this is the must-go place in our itinerary.

The entrance fees

GST included ;p

We went to 3D Museum first as the parks's staff just let the previous batch entered 'The Upside Down House of Borneo' and we would need to queue. We arrived there around 11.00am and there were not many visitors.

- 3D Museum

Some of my favourite shots :

- The Upside Down House

There was a staff who guided visitors into the house. Apparently, there are a few upside down houses constructed around the world, complete with inverted furnishings and decorations and this is one of them. By the way, visitors are not allowed to take pictures in the upside down house.

- Tamparuli Suspension Bridge

After that, we continued our journey to Kundasang. It was very cloudy, almost drizzling. We stopped a bit for snapping pictures at the Tamparuli Suspension Bridge, following our route back in KK Trip in 2011 *read here*.

- Kundasang : Desa Dairy Farm

We continued on with our journey to Kundasang, had lunch at KFC in Kundasang town and went to Desa Dairy Farm. The place has changed a bit, more systematic and they opened a souvenir shop as well as kiosks that sell gelato, yoghurt and other desserts made from dairy goods by that farm.

Entrance fee. Sekarang nak buat pre-wedding photoshoot kat sini pun dah boleh haa

Gelap sangat kan.....masa ni pukul 4 petang

Harga boleh tahan mahal gak sebenarnya ... tapi pikir balik, apa yang tak mahal zaman pak jibby nih

Dah lain sikit tempat perah susu dan lagi ramai boleh tengok proses tu tanpa bersesak-sesak mcm dulu

Baby tido tak dapat nak bergambar dgn moo moo

It was drizzling, so windy and dark clouds were everywhere. We were not able to snap more pictures as we planned to and quickly got into the car as we were afraid the kids would catch cold. Furthermore, our girl was wearing onesie as we did not fathom it would be that cold and raining all day long. But we still make a dash stop at the Kinabalu Pine Resort before heading back.

 - Kundasang : Kinabalu Pine Resort

- Salut Seafood Restaurant

On our way back to KK, it was raining heavily and very dark .... alhamdulillah nothing happened and we got back safely. We reached KK around 6.00 pm and were very hungry. We decided to have dinner straightaway so that we can rest once we reached the hotel. This time, we resolved for Salut as we still thought we had the best seafood dinner in KK 2011 trip at Salut. 

Once we reached the place, it was very different from the image we had in our minds ... it was opened, but deserted and not many choices of seafood. It was quite pricey too. Still, we ordered ... but the food served was not to our satisfaction. Even the cashier charged us different price from what we agreed when we chose the seafood by the aquarium. I looked back at my KK trip in 2011 blog entry to find out where we had the seafood dinner and it turned out to be Gayang, not Salut. Am not going back here :(

That's it for Day 2 in KK-Kundasang ... come follow our Day 3 ramblings!

Roadtrip 2015 : Brunei - Kota Kinabalu (Part 1)

Roadtrip 2015 : Brunei - Kota Kinabalu (Part 3)