Category: Going Places

My travelogue.

Borneo Highlands – Flower Garden

March 8, 2007March 21, 2007 sweet surrender 8 Comments

Pretty flowers!! The Chinese Tea House is actually situated in the flower graden. We had our breakfast first then we strolled the garden. Love that pink flowers. So pwetty…*drool*

The fountain that you can see when you are on the way to the Rose Garden. Too bad it’s not rose season, so not much roses to see. Still those bloomed were very nice.

The staircase to the big lush green field. There are places to sit there and creeping plants creep all the way over the frame. See the right picture, where you can see two “frame” like structures, it’s for you to sit but there were lots of ants, becareful. Better don’t sit there. 😛

The rabbit park. It’s not opened when we were there. The feeding time had passed. If you want to visit it, then be there at 8.30am or 3.30pm. Inside the cage, there are peacocks and peahens too.

More views of the garden…

Next up… Swan Lake!

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Borneo Highlands – Breakfast @ Chinese Tea House

March 8, 2007March 21, 2007 sweet surrender 6 Comments

Breakfast time! Nothing much, just usual breakfast stuffs. Eggs, breads, pastries, porridge, potatoes, tomatoes, juices, coffee, tea, fruits, bake beans, salty eggs, salted tofu, fried kueh tiaw… No meat.

The inside of tea house. Finally stomach filled after hours of starvation :P.

After breakfast, we strolled the flower garden.

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Borneo Highlands – Kalimantan View Point

March 7, 2007March 21, 2007 sweet surrender 8 Comments

Left: The morning view, 6 something in the morning from our room.
Right: “Tut-Tut” that was supposed to send us up to the Kalimantan View Point but there were too many people, so we(the youngsters and young parents) were asked to walk up to the lookout point. The “Tut-Tut” was occupied by young children and old people.

The views that we saw when we walked up to the lookout point.

Goshh… the slope was high. I’m exhausted. I almost fainted twice because I didn’t eat anything and didn’t drink any water. I stopped to rest for a while and drank some water then I felt better. We were the last to arrive because we stopped to take photos and video many times. The group in front kept looking back at us because we were so young but we were so slow. They thought we didn’t have the energy to go up *LOL* I shouldn’t have run that time because of the running I was drained.

Finally reached the view point. Actually everyone was supposed to walk to the lookout point not with “Tut-Tut” but because of many young children and old people, “Tut-Tut” was used.

The view is spectacular! It lookes nicer in real life than in photos.
It’s time to camwhore again!!! 😛 Hehehe…
By the way, reach your hand or a foot out, you are in Kalimantan, Indonesia already!!! Yes! I went to Indonesia that day without passport 😛

Left: Strange insect. Even the guide had never seen it before. This is the first time she encountered it. Their tails were joined together. The guide discovered it first on the ground.
Right: Further up, there’s a hut. It’s higher there.

Left: The guide explaining to us about Batu Pangah on top of the mountain. She told us about legend of it. Two lovers escaped from the village and when it rained, they had no place to hide, so they went into a place where women were not supposed to go in but they had no choice, they went in and they turned into a rock. You can see the rock with the shape of human there now.
Right: More view from the hut.

Left: More view.
Right: This is the highest peak of Kuching, Mount. Penrissen. To reach the peak, you need to climb the mountain. The shortest time to reach there is 3 hours but depends on the stamina of the climbers.

Last but not least, camwhore time again! 😛 This time is from the hill where the hut is. We have another photo taken with the guide but it’s in another camera. Will show it to you when I got it.

After that, we went down via “Tut-Tut” to breakfast at the Chinese Tea House and Flower Garden.

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Borneo Highlands – Dinner @ Annah Rais Cafe

March 6, 2007March 21, 2007 sweet surrender 8 Comments

We had our dinner at Annah Rais Cafe. It’s buffet style and the dress code of the night was smart casual or chinese costume. Borneo Highlands does not provide any meat for meals and even tea breaks. They are 100% meatless, only vegetarian(artificial) meats are use. The vegetables and fruits are mostly or all planted in Borneo Highlands itself and they are organic ones. The tastes are not that empowering. Quite bland but it’s acceptable. I had never tasted vegetarian food with such bland taste, it’s a good thing. Usually food in vegetarian restaurants taste too empowering, too much sugar, too much salt and too much MSG.

Left: Our table.
Right: Steamboat. Not exactly :p Hahaha… You just need to pick your choice and hand it over to the staff standing there and they will put them into the boiling soup to cook it for you. Then, handed them back to you in a bowl. There were chicken soup and tomyam soup to choose from.

Left: Salad bar.
Right: Cakes. Just nice, not too sweet.

Left: Mandarin oranges an sarsi jellies.
Right: Coffee and tea.

The main course. Rice, beehoon, various versions of mixed veggies, fried eggs.

Left: The environment.
Right: Entertainement of the night, karaoke. Hahaha… Jimmy and Jason represented our table to sing. It was supposed to be another friend but he escaped. *LOL*

Our group photo. One person missing hahaha… He’s in hiding mode to avoid being ask to sing by the staff.

After the dinner, we went to the spa to use the massage chairs while waiting for the fireworks. At about 10pm++, it started. The fireworks weren’t consistent. Twice we thought that they already ended it but who knows there were still more. The best was left to the end but too bad… We thought they ended it, we went back to our room. Then heard the fireworks again but didn’t care about it as they kept repeating. Suddenly I saw flashes of light outside our window and thought that they had switched location but too bad, I had removed my contact lense and without glasses hahaha… So, I opened the window and manage to see some blurry fireworks. Hahahah… Rainbow colour summore!! Too bad, battery had died earlier on. When I found my glasses, the fireworks display ended. Bummer! Then we realised that they didn’t change the location, they were let off at the same place all those while. We were the one that kept changing viewing locations. Hehehe…

After everything ended at aboout 11pm. We went to bed because we would be going for Highland Tour at 6.30am the next day.

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Borneo Highlands – The Indoor Tour

March 5, 2007March 21, 2007 sweet surrender 17 Comments

We checked into our rooms. Clubrooms do not have attached shower. They only have toilet and washing basin in each room. Not only that, there are no door to the washing closet but only curtain. Therefore, if you are not comfortable with it, then you can opt for Goldrooms. There are only 7 Goldrooms available and 38 Clubrooms. If you need to shower, you will need to go to the common shower room. There is no need for any air conditioning, a fan is enough.

This is the common shower room. Ladies shower room is bigger than the men. Summore they have sauna and steambath too but I think they closed it for usage. I’m not sure what is that big platform in the middle doing there(bottom right photo). Each room will be given a locker to use to store you thing when you go to spa or take shower. I went into the men’s shower room to take photos and the guys followed me to the ladies shower room to take photos *LOL* No people there hehehe…

The gym.

See those guys there enjoying themselve exercising? The scenery here is what you will be seeing from the gym’s window.

Left: The Karaoke Room.
Right: The reading room with the massage chairs there. We tried every single one of them hahaha…

The Jungle Spa. It’s located at the first floor. You can make appointment for massages or facial. These services will be charged into your bill. The spa’s showers are unisex. They have sauna and steam bath too. Then there are three pools, two with the temperature of 43 degree Celcius and one with 14 degree Celcius. We didn’t challenge the cold one as it’s really cold (-.-“) I tried to put my feet in, they were numbed. The hot one was quite challenging too but our bodies could slowly adapt to it better compare to the the cold one. Don’t go in directly, you have to go in bit by bit start form your feet and slowly proceed to the whole body. After that, we went to the swimming pool just outside of the spa, then back again to the hot pool.

Left: The Hornbill Nest. This is a bar and you need to go tru’ this place when you go to the Therapy Room(massage) and the spa. The spa is downstair.
Right: The room where you can watch movies in there. The movie’s choice is on first come first serve basis.

Left: The landscape pool is also the swimming pool
Right: Before entering the Men Common Shower Room and lockers of members, you’ll be greeted with this. You can sign up to be the member. The fee is not cheap. Only those rich people can afford it.

Left: The shop where you can buy golf related products and also some souvenirs.
Right: Annah Rais Cafe. We had your dinner and lunch here. Mind you that the food here are meatless and the veggies and fruits are organic. Their aim is to promote healthy living and eating.

Left: The therapy room for massages and facials.
Right: Golf course. They have 18-hole golf course.

Phew… Done… Such a long post. Don’t worry, there are more to come…*LOL*

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