Overnight Trip to Mesilau Kundasang -Day 2

The next day, we woke up early in the chill morning.  Everyone were excited to find the majestic view of Mount Kinabalu, it is so close as if we are almost reach the mountain top.  My youngest daughter was so excited, she was the one who woke us up in the morning.  Our hand phones worked very hard to capture the best view.  

Me with the Mountain view at the back

It was so cold that I have a bowl of rice wine chicken soup to warm up my body

On the way back,  we stop by Kundasang market place to buy some local vegetables and for the 1st time, I shopped at the flowers stalls

small pots of chillies, I did not buy any

spread of flowers

Cactus, these are the ones I was looking for

I bought 3 pots of flowers.  The red one is meant for my mum for Mother's Day but she asked me to take care of it.  She said this flower is very common.

and I also bought 3 small pots of cactus.  Now I will have to take care of my plants which I have never done before.  The weather is so hot,  I have been watering my plants for the last 2 days when I reach home after work.  

Overnight Trip to Mesilau Kundasang - Day 1

We went for an overnight trip at Mesilau Kundasang last weekend, stayed at Kinabalu View Chalet.  Mesilau is the highest accessible point by road at the foot of Majestic Mount Kinabalu.

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Our double cab was loaded with the necessities for us to have a comfortable stay at the cool climate.

As usual we had a brief stopover at Tamparuli town to have its famous Tamparuli mee before continuing our journey.  After 2 hours + road journey from Kota Kinabalu, we arrived at the chalet.  Mount Kinabalu was fully covered by thick cloud throughout our journey there, we were unable to have a glimpse of it. 

Our family members occupied the whole 3 chalets, which is good that we can make the noises without disturbing others.  Each chalet has its own kitchen equipped with basic utensils, the set up of the room are very basic with the feel of staying in the kampung.

Not long after arriving, Clet has started to set up the BBQ while waiting for the rest to arrive.  

The only set back of this place is the flies, there are up to thousands of them sticking and flying around.  Even the smoke, flies repellent spray could not chase them away.  We have to cover our food while eating that has totally spoiled my appetite. Those flies disappear when sun set and come back in the morning, yuck!! The same situation happened when we stayed at one of the chalet around that place many years ago.  I was told that this is because of the fertilizer used at the surrounding farms and also the cattle farm nearby.  I believe there must be a way to keep these flies away.

Forgot about the flies.  We walked around taking photos of the flowers in front of the chalet.  

Clet set up the tent for the kids to play but  it is too small for them to stay inside, our kids has grown up my dear.

The highlight of the night was the double celebration of SIL's 50th birthday and Mother's Day.  Both the homemade mango cake and cheese cake are so delicious, I had slices of both cake and hot coffee for dinner.  

Genting & KL Trip..continues

Another update of our Genting and KL trip just for record.

The 2nd day at Genting, we spent the whole day time in the Indoor Theme Park, nieces and nephew who reside in KL join in the fun though they have been there a couple of times.

We bought the Indoor Theme Park tickets in the hotel booking package allow us to have unlimited rides,  

They ride on the Merry-Go-Round many times with different horses each time

at the hotel lobby after we have checked out.  We took a cable car down to the station, our nephew was waiting for us there.  We just want to let our girls experienced a ride in the cable car.  Glad that it did not take too long to arrive, I started to have butterflies in my stomach during the way down.

We noticed a crack on the roof of the cable car

We bought some durian tarts at Restoran Sri Karak before heading back to KL

On the 3rd day, we went on an educational tour in KL city for our girls and a little time for shopping.  Our first stop was at KLCC for our girls to view the Petronas Twin Tower which they only got to see in TV and books.  But they are more interested to go to the PetroSains to explore what's new as compare to the one in KK.  Unfortunately Petrosains is closed on Monday, my girls were very disappointed.

Our next destination was to the Aquaria KLCC. After which our kids were too tired to walk but we still managed to get some reasonable priced clothing and shoes in one of the shopping mall in a rush.

We were back home on the 4th day.  Our kids were very happy to be home and start playing with their Lego Friends which we bought one each for them as promised.  Lego toys are slightly cheaper in KL as compared to KK like most other things.  

The Hamburger on flight of AirAsia is super yummy, I like it.  Will definitely order the same again on my next flight on Air Asia.

Thanks to our nephew, Bryan and family to let us stay at their home during our visit in KL.