Kuching Day 3 - 01.05.06

I slept very well last night. Perhaps due to extreme tiredness.

Had more waffle again. Hahaha... Its seriously nice lah. The roti canai also good. I love the curry. I used curried my waffle. Not a bad combi.

Took a cab to Bako National Park. Its an offshore island so we have to take a boat there, well, actually more like a motorised sampan. On the way to the island, it looks more like the Survivor Borneo Island season. Hahaa... Nice scenery.
We have to register ourselves at the office just in case by 6pm, we've not signed out, they would send a rangers to look for us. So we set out of our trial which is a 1.5hour route. The start was walking over mangrove swamps on the board walks. I was like holding my camera and snapping away. Thinking to myself, hey, this 1.5hour would be an interesting walk.

Then suddenly, the boardwalk just ends there. Its was like going treking in McRitchie for only about 5meters. Thereafter was tough. I had to keep my camera already cause I needed my hands to grab the roots. Only taking out my camera when I see interesting stuff.
There was a barely existant footpath, only a route seasoned by lots of trekkers. Steps were made of different level of tree roots. Railings were made of jutting out tree roots, strong small branches or branches with THORNS. Only occasionally, there would be wooden steps but they were small and steep. Railings were flimsy.
Hardly any wind, it was humid. Everyone else had beads of sweat on their head except me. Clearly I'm an alien or my pores went on holiday too.
When I'm in kickboxing class maybe I can say perhaps I didn't push myself hard enough or I'm moving a bit only. But how is it that when I walk the same route same terrain, walk the same speed, panting away. I still don't sweat. I also don't know leh. Never mind...

After the forest area, we came to barren rocks. I thought that was the cliff we were supposed to be at and we've reached our destination. Clearly not. But it started to drizzle and we were worried that the road ahead wouldn't have shelter should the sky decides to have a heavy downpour and have blots of lighting flashing down. We decided to carry on. The sun came out. Ahh.. At this time? When there are no trees. The sun was scorching hot! I was being burned. I'll definitely be lobstered by the end of this. The route was once a river. Traces of small streams still running through. Portholes and snaking river path.

Finally arrived at the cliff. Woahhh!!! It made the tiring walk damn worth it! Too bad it started to rain AGAIN. Then we went to find a route down to the beach to take a boat back. Of couse, we would have to pay for the boat ride. But no point that we walk back the same route we came from. We would have seen what was there already and its tiring. Listen to the wind... Its quite loud. Ohh... There's no barrier or anything from preventing people from falling over. Quite dangerous.


Although taking the boat back would be the easy way out. It was definitely not a easy way down from the cliff to the beach. Steps were hard to reach and very very slippery. Oh, it was a steep too. Land one wrong foot and probably slide down somewhere.

Wahh... It felt so great to set foot on the beach. I was never so glad to stand there and soak in the afternoon sun. My first commentary video. Haha..


Wahh... While on the motor sampan, we headed straight into heavy rain. It made me wonder if the boat will flood or not. Hahaha...
Anyway, we trekked so much but saw nothing much except a lot of trees. In fact, I saw more monekys at the starting point then during the trail walk. Ohh... Caught a glimpse of the long nose moneky too. But too far to take picture.

Dinner was good! More seafood...
Soft shell crab, cereal prawns, chut chut (I don't like the taste of it though), steam fish, vege and belachan fried rice. It was more satisfying then yesterday's dinner. Slightly more ex cause more seafood stuff. Oh we saw another table eating this dish. Look damn interesting. It comes in a shape of the chinese wok. Thin and crispy. You're supposed to break it off from there and eat it. Its actually oyster omelette. Too bad we were too full. Else would have tried.