So why on earth did we go to Kota Kinabalu?! 2 words. SEAT SALE. haha and remember last year how i wanted to go away to this unfamiliar place no one knew where, a place with a weird name, and KK was on top of my list. I asked my parents if I could go there ALONE for my birthday and they said no. WELL WELL WELL TOWEL!!! We, Dolly and I, finally went to Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia! yiheeyyyy!!
We arrived at the Kota Kinabalu International Airport around 6 in the evening. The flight was only around an hour and a half, felt even shorter--- or maybe we were just excited. :) We had our money exchanged----
We got to our hotel, which i booked online, and it turned out really nice! The hotel was nice! Location wise, it was at the center of the city, and it was right in front of the night market! Super friendly staff and the lobby, the rooms, hallways were pretty clean. It was a very comfy accommodation for us!
Watched some Malaysian soap before going out for dinner. So I did some research since we were on backpacking mode, and found restaurants and places to go and eat. On our first night, we headed to the Waterfront--no not the popular chain of hotels, literally, water-front. It was like Bora, only, overlooking THE FREAKING SOUTH CHINA SEA! hahaha! There were restaurants along the Waterfront, including Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, which unfortunately was closed. So we ended up eating at the biggest restaurant, Port View restaurant, kowloon vibe. haha.
We got billed for the wet towels and the chinese tea we didn't ask for. When we asked for water, the manager said "why? you don like chinese tea?" haha yes, we appreciate your chinese tea but we prefer water. hhahah anyway. It was our most expensive meal throughout our trip. :)
We went around the rest of the Waterfront, there were more restaurants and foreigners. I was craving for cake. There was Starbucks but we didn't check it out. We came all the way to Malaysia just to drink the same coffee? waley. So we went around Warisan Square which was just behind Waterfront, it was a mall with foreign brands like Roxy, Body Shop, etc. and then we saw this:
IT WAS DELISHHHH!!!! :) Why didn't we have that here?!!!! haha
After dessert, we went back to the hotel, checked out the night market, met Filipinos selling us shades and we asked for a huge discount. Like from 35 Ringgit, Dolly got his sunnies for just 20 Ringgit. haha! We got to bed early because we kindof knew that buses to Kinabalu Park left super early. So we slept early.
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