Kota Kinabalu

I arrived Kota Kinabalu at one a clock and walked to the hostel straight away. The walk to the hostel (BeacHouse) is really fast, just turn left from the lights and walk two minutes. The hostel itself is kinda basic, nothing too fancy. That is the reason why it has a nice relaxed athmosphere. The personel there is really nice and helpful so I definetly would recomend it to anybody.

On the first day I met up with Jamie, whom I knew from Langkawi. We were supposed to meet up with Mike too, but unfortunately he had to go back to KL before we arrived. After organizing our stuff we went to the city and later played ultimate with other people from the hostel (the hostel has organized some activities for the guests, like ultimate on the beach on the weekend and BBQ on thursday).

On Saturday we tried to plan a trip to Sandakan, but decided to stay in KK the whole time. Too bad, there are a lot of things to see near Sandakan, even more than in KK. It just would've been too much hassle to go there and back, so never mind. We ended up on a tour to see the Phosporus monkey, also known as dick head monkey. They were pretty cool, and we were lucky enough to see some water buffalos on the way. The tour started from this psychedelic cafe, which was in the middle of bumblefuck nowhere, but still really neat and managed to look like a English teahouse. After the tour we were supposed to be able to see fireflys, but almost none showed up. Oh, and I ended up buying the funciest bag in the world: a coconut bag.

The next day we went to the Sunday Market. They close down a steet and let the locals sell stuff without taking a fee during Sunday morning, which is kinda cool. They sold everything there, junk, bags, kites, cats, turtles, ect... I felt so sorry for the animals, because they had to stay in small smelly cages and not so few of them were obviously very ill.
Anyways after that we didn't do much. There was Ultimate again, but I was too lazy to play.

Monday we went to Mari Mari Cultural Village. We were able to see five different tribe houses and taste their food and wine. It was a blast. They also let us try the old school tampoline, use a blow pipe, make food and try their traditional rice wine. The whole trip was 150 RM and totally worth every penny. At the end of the tour they had few performances and we were able to try out the bamboo dance. It was great, the band was jamming with their gongs and whatnots, and the whole show just had a good wibe in it. It was exelente.
Jamie got sick during the trip so the last activity of KK was a trip to the local clinic. He got some pills (3 differend kind of tablets, some powder and liquid) so hopefully he'll start feeling better soon.

The best part of the trip was a discovery of a new band (actually I think I've heard their name mentioned before but only now I actually heard their music): Architecture in Helsinki. I only have two words for it: controlled chaos. Brilliant