Trip to Sabah-Sandakan

On Day 3, we drove back Tawau in the late evening to catch the 8pm bus to Sandakan-the 2nd biggest city in Sabah. We reached there 7.30pm, busy taping the exzon for 'n' times to avoid the loud sound being detected by the owner temporarily, rushed to nearby stall to get a RM5.00 economic rice each. The things in Sabah is damn expensive, even if you just pick 3 veges also cost you the same rm5.00.

Oh ya one more thing is that we can't find any Gardenia bread here( in most areas) , Gardenia in Sabah is selling canned drink instead, I just got to know it by then,haha....

The bus that we board was quite new and comfortable. The bus tickets sellers there were damn terrible, we were surrounded by so many guys upon walking near the area during Day 1 , everyone was trying so hard to promote their bus , stucking all the name cards with you although you don't need that much,haha..so my advice is, don't go to the bus station area alone.

Back to the bus we board, there was plastic bag in each seat (for us to vomit I guess as the road was so bumpy without highway), the bus conductors distributed sweets to us and also the anti-emetic pills. It was so special for us as in West Peninsular or even Sarawak, there's no such services except giving a bottle of drink . After 4 hours, we were dropped off in the middle of somewhere in the midnight as the bus was not heading to Sandakan, so we need to stop another bus passed by to hoop on to Sandakan, weird system.Luckily without long, a bus stopped by and we got to continue our journey , or else we will end up standing besides roadside in dark.

The bus stopped by the hotel we booked, so we just dozed off after checking in. The next day morning, my friend's friend came to meet us together with her dad. We were so paiseh as her dad offered to bring us around the whole day. Actually only 1 of my friend knew her, we others 3 just meet her for the 1st time. After breakfast, we headed to the Orang Utan Sanctuary, but we missed the feeding time in the morning, so we decided to visit the Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey 1st.

The next place we visited was the Rainforest Discovery Centre. It was a still under construction centre which offer a great spot for bird watching at the 150m long canopy walkway ,providing a spectacular view of the lush rainforest of Sepilok from 25m above the ground. The canopy walkway is great for bird watcher to get a dlimpse of some 250 species of birds including hornbills, kingfishers etc.

There's an exhibition hall which explains teh different type of rainforest in Sabah and the unique plants and animals they support.

A crocodile sample donated by the crocodile farm.

Besides the hall, there's a plant discovery garden which displays many types of plants and economic crops. A very nice and informative garden.

There's some discovery trekking trails to learn about the rainforest ecology, since we were in a rush so we don't spend much time to walk around it.

Subsequently, we rushed for our lunch and headed to Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary for the 3pm feeding time. Actually it's nothing much to see there, only 2 utans were seen plus whole bunch of monkeys.

Next we stopped by a large temple on the hill. The view there is quite nice with the blue sea behind. We ended our one day journey at Sandakan with our 2nd seafood meal. Right after the dinner we caught another bus to Kota Kinabalu. We reached KK around 2pm , and since we have no place to head to and we were allowed to stay in bus till morning, so we just slept in the bus till the sun rose in 6am.What to do, save budget,haha...