After a 6-hour bus ride we arrived in the evening along with Benn in Kota Kinabalu, or KK on. Since his second Visit to the city, was accounted for us the tedious search Hostel and we were able to purposefully go into the Tropicana Lodge, a small family run hostel in the center of the city. We rarely have been so warmly welcomed, we felt immediately at home. The employees spend the night anyway in the same room as the guests and so you learn to know each other quickly. As the former Jesselton how the city was called before the second world war, was completely destroyed in that, you have to rebuild it just in Kota Kinabalu, according to the highest mountain in Southeast Asia, the renamed Mount Kinabalu. Therefore, the city, unfortunately, very monotonous and Betonkloetzen is shaped, but the extreme friendliness of the locals do not decreases. The next day I visited Kathy and then the Sabah Museum, which devotes itself mainly with plastic displays and many photos of the various ethnic groups in the state, and the history and the animals of the area. Of particular interest, we found the issue of the traditional clothing of some tribes, as well as the many stuffed animals in the wildlife department, because now we had a large number of Ausstellungsstuecke can already see themselves in the wild ... of crocodiles, turtles and sharks over to small wild cats and several species of monkeys. Since we were the same a little proud.
the evening was staggered us then - just follow your nose-on "Phillipinenmarkt", a huge Sammelsorium Essenstaenden with all sorts of offers, by the sea with beautiful views of the gaudy sunset in all imaginable shades of red and leaking fishing boats. The backdrop looked like a painting. In the market Kathi and I were then also again an attraction and is always smiling photos with different state operators that develop later we left and they brought the people the next day gone. The locals here are really incredibly warm! The next day we had booked a snorkeling trip to the island in Sapi Tuanku Abdul Rahman National Park, to which we in the morning along with a Japanese this couple and our join out as "Snorkelguide" broke up. Because lie off the coast of KK's a total of 5 islands that rise from the shallow South China Sea and grace with its white sandy beaches and green forests and Mangrovenbestaenden very idyllic. Together with us, 400 Japanese package tourists came to the island, which once again highlighted differences in Asian and European culture. While the "Western" in the towels on the beach packed up, sat on chairs with fabric Japanese union of circular tables shadow. While the Europeans brought to a serving French fries for lunch quickly, fed by the Japanese specifically for each tour group assembled mehrgaengig buffets. When we bikinis and snorkelling in the water, went next to us, the Japanese swam in swimming in fabric shoes, bathing suits and trousers and of course wearing a bright red life jacket. That's it.
We still had beautiful Schnorchelgaenge and enough space and time during our rest of the midday heat on the white sand beach in front of the turquoise water, I snorkeled again before us, we both get burned his back. Well, still a nice day.
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