Sitting in our hostel bunk beds at Taman Kinabalu on my touch. We just got here a couple hours ago after a three hour drive through the rolling mountains is Sabah, one of two Malaysian providences in Borneo.
The guys arrived safely into Singapore yesterday. They landed almost an hour early and I was at the gate waiting with food and water in hand, my favorite foods from bread talk, the bakery that makes those ham pastries I've talked about. 5 am came quick when the prayer tower from hr mosque a block away sang for he first prayer of the day luckily dad didn't make us get up :) not until 9 anyway. We ate breakfast in the hotel. Max enjoyed the chili sauce they serve with everything here, not the kind we have at home, most of it's like mashed chiles and oil. Anyway, I took them the Hindi temple in little India, max loved it! The intricate detailing of the sculptures around the temple were his favorite, as churches are nothing in comparison to architecture to their entrance o hundreds of deities and animals of all sizes and colors. Most things were closed there, as 10 am is still early for this county especially on a Sunday.
We wandered off to bugis, a large shopping in district in Singapore in search for a rain jacket, which I realized I had forgotten for our trip. We found nothing, but we went through the latest outdoor vendor shopping center in Singapore. It was like the china shopping malls which is where all the vendors are literally on top of each other and it's cheap clothes and watches and souvenirs, with the good knockoffs hiding through secret doorways. We walked straight downtown, and the guys got to see the impressive marina bay sands hotel and casino ( boat tower) and the Singapore flyer ( ferris wheel). We walked along the water to the merlion, Singapore mascot. He was covered j. A building, apparently they built a temporary hotel around him for a few days to shoot a movie. We walked down boat quay and Clarke quay where we party and here's good food. Of course hen it started to rain and hey guys ended ip soaked, as I had had the only umbrella. I found out the large building that looks like a lotus flower by marina bay sands is the worlds first art AND science museum and it had just opened the Friday before. Max was very impressed by the building so we went over to have a look across hr bay. 30$ pp to get in with no student discounts sent us to elsewhere in the city.
We jumped the mrt to china town, on the way out the guys had issues. tapping their cards and dad just about jumped the stall haha the Chinatown mrt is literally in the middle of it's busiest vendor shopping and eating road, so the immediate view was pretty impressive. We stopped at he local Hindi temple again, as a community prayer was just ending and I wanted to show max the men who run the ceremonies. I took them to the Maxwell hawkers center where we had a quick lunch of curry chicken and rice. Next was the Tooth Relic Buddhist Museum and Temple, the first temple I went to in Singapore, the five story one with he two story Buddhas in it. Max about dropped to the floor. The impressive sculpting of the Hindi temples were quickly put to the back burner once he got to see the aesthetics of Buddhist artwork and sculptings. He literally took photos of everything. We went up all the floors, the guys very happy we skipped the museum, including the top floor with the actual tooth in it. This is the no photo room with the glass enclosures around yet another room which held the throne ( a stupa) that held the tooth. It had a camera in it so you could monitor the tooth. The rooms is completely plated in gold, including the floor.
After drinks and getting max to try a lassi, a yogurt milk drink at the Indian restaurant, we grabbed a taxi to The airport. We arrived into Kinabalu after dark and went right to the hotel. We went wandering a little around out little corner of the city, which is very small. It's Max's birthday today, so we agreed to go eat Italian! We went for pizza and it was amazing! Dad got to see how expensive beer is at these "nice" places and I got to use a salt shaker for the first time in HOW many weeks :) Got an decent time wakeup for tomorrows adventure to the mountain :)
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