Pit stops on the way to KK

After the War Memorial Park, we took a walk around Kundasang market. It was nice weather and bless.... the hot sun !!! :-D  They had stalls like the ones we could see at Camerons especially along Brinchang where they sold almost the same type of highland vegetables. Something different was the "pucuk timun" or known locally as "Sabah vege". I asked them how to cook it and we had an interesting chat about the many ways to cook it. The guys bought and ate "buah terap" - something that was the size of a sukun fruit, the hair ourside was like pulasan, greenish in colour and the flesh was like cempedak. They said it belonged to the cempedak family. No, I did not try it because we were continuing our journey to Kota Kinabalu. What caught my eyes were the colourful and attractively packaged cut fruits sold at RM2 each but with an offer of RM5 for three packets. The flowers were not very fresh as those in Camerons neither were they in abundance. Maybe as Akmal siad, it was almost noon.

The rows of colourful displayed cut fruits at the Kundasang market

Next stop was the Kinabalu Park, on the way down to Kota Kinabalu. It was packed with people. You could hike up. It was the foot of the mountain. Part of it, anyway.  :-D  Akmal had climbed up to the peak and managed to catch the early breaking of dawn photos at 4:00am. He said it was freezing cold but worth the photos.

You can either park your car here and walk up or you can just take a drive up

Every place of interest in Sabah has a fee. It is all in the name of conservation.  :-)  We took a drive around the area. No, we did not do any trekking.

Neither did we took a lot of photographs. Now, we started the journey down to KK. Akmal suggested that we took lunch at KK so that his mother would survive the journey. Well, I did. It was much better because I knew we would be on level ground again.  :-}  Ikram would say "it's all about the mind". Ha..Ha..Ha... Such consideration from them. Alhamdulillah. We stopped at Tampuri to see the upside down house. We did not enter as there was a long queue and besides, we were not allowed to take photographs inside the house. So, these were what were taken from the outside. The entrance fee was RM10 each.

The entrance to the house - you hit the gong for the door to be opened

The upside down car

We continued our journey to Indah Permai to drop off Akmal at his hostel. He had a pre -presentation on his final thesis tomorrow. We chose this week for a holiday because of Tuesday (Deepavali) and Thursday (Maal Hijrah) holidays. So, Akmal could spend some time with us. After lunch near his hostel, Noor took over the wheel and Syafiq, the GPS, with his smart phone. We proceeded to find our hotel for the rest of the 3 nights in KK. We told Akmal not to worry about us  and let us venture on our own. He was really busy this week with an exam coming up on Friday. Well, we had ventured into unknown places before without GPS, so, we would survive KK.