New Discoveries

Just had a tour around Kuching for the past 3 days together with Pei Sun, her sis and her parents. They are extremely good touring company. XD

perfect excuse for me to savour all i-dare-say healthy Kuching delicacies annually. :D

even tho this was my 4th time touring Kuching over the past 3 years, i still keep discovering things i didnt know about this lovely city i call home.

1. We visited the Semonggoh Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre today in search of orang utans. a few facts that were new to me today.

- 1st of all i kept calling it Semonggok n only realised its correct name today. lol.

- Feeding Time for the orang utans are at 9-10am & 3-4pm. so if u're planning a trip here, u'll wana arrive just slightly before the feeding time :)

- The orang utans had really awesome names.

There's a female orang utan nicknamed Hot Mama due to her temper (not bcz she's irresistibly attractive to the males). Later after the hype only we rmbed her name's actually Delima. the park guides have great sense of humour :D

A dominant male orang utan called Ritchie who caused 2 fingers of George (another male orang utan) to be bitten off and poor George to be sent off to the Matang Wildlife Centre to separate the two.

and a female dubbed The Grandmother cz she's oldest.

one can never get bored watching the antics of these primates that are so irresistibly adorable, esp the babies! awww......

-The centre has 20+ orang utans. They are orang utans seized by Immigration Officers from poachers / smugglers and thank goodness, saved.

- and it's a lot nearer than i thought from my house and very easy to find. :D

2. I never knew there were that many Vegetarian outlets in Kuching. Pei Sun's family is vegetarian. so as we cruised around town, we started spotting more and more vegetarian restaurants around. We tried only a few, but out of those we tried, i have some good reviews.

- Popular Restaurant on the same road as the Air Asia Office opposite Swak Plaza, but much further down nearer to the Padungan roundabout. for restaurant standard, ordering dishes chinese styled.

- Beside the police station on the same road as Hong Kong noodle house in Padungan. 4got the shop's name tho. :S but it's vegetarian laksa, kolo mee, tomato noodles are not bad :P similar to non vegetarian 1s. it has kueh chap too , much to my surprise :P cz i didnt noe they could have mock pig intestines. hehe. bt it tastes different, more like bak kut teh. so i was glad they could all have a taste of Swakian food.

so if u've got vegetarian friends / am craving for vegetarian food, these are the places to be.

3. and rediscovered many routes around Kuching as i drove, drove, drove. :P

when i was small -yes in age and size- lol., i used to think that a 30 min drive down to the Damai Beach was horrendously long and super tiring.

after being in kl whr getting u to a destination requires a minimum time of 30 mins, a drive to Damai Beach felt like a drive in KL on any ordinary day. and much more pleasant with long endless empty roads and lots of trees. hehe. thank you KL for developing my travel time tolerance. :P

as the tour reached its end, nostalgia set in. i miss sunny and family already! she claims ownership over a certain Hill in Kuching selling ice cream. 8P

and its time for me to leave home once again. tmr.

sad..... :S