In this post, I will share
my transportation story into 2 parts which are during Kundasang trip and my
sister’s convocation.
Kundasang Trip
During this trip, my
friend had asked me to buy 19 boxes of Ferrero Rocher requested by her cousins as wedding’s
door gifts because the price in Labuan cheaper compares Sabah and Sarawak. That
times a box of Ferrero Rocher cost RM 24 while now around RM 26 which had been
increase in price.
Before went in the Ferry
Express, all the luggage and bags need to scan first. I had stopped by an
immigrant officer because I brought too much chocolate. She told me that every
person allows bringing maximum RM 75 of chocolates but I bring around RM 400 so
I need to pay 30% tax in order to bring all those chocolate into ferry.
The calculation of tax
pay was (the total of chocolate you bought – RM 75) X 30%.
When back to Labuan
from Kota Kinabalu, I had took bus from Kota Kinabalu to Menumbok and followed
took speed boat to Labuan.
It was my first time
to take a double decker bus so surely I choose to sit at the above to enjoy the
view.
Air conditioner & light |
Above of your seat has
air conditioner and light which you can control it by own. The seat is very
comfortable. In bus, although has TV to watch but I spent my time to read a
book named “The Little Books of Secrets”.
View from bus |
After I had found a
seat, I had seen an old man sat beside me. After a while, a young man asked for
my ticket seat number as he found out that his seat number was number 1. After
checking, it’s the old man’s ticket had a little problem because the
handwriting seat number on ticket looks like 21p so he thought that was number
1.
When arrived Menumbok,
I had went to speed boat counter to buy ticket. It had a long queue because
mostly everyone would choose to take speed boat which is faster than taking big
ferry. Speed boat one way ticket cost RM 7.50 for Malaysian.
After purchased
ticket, I went to waiting hall to wait for calling my speed boat number to get
in. After heard of announcement of my speed boat number, I walked into speed
boat. Around 40 minutes, I had safety arrived Labuan.
Pickup & Drop off Airport Bus Station |
Airport Bus Time Table |
In this Kundasang trip,
we had a friend from Kuching to join us so we had gone to airport to fetch her.
During waiting, I had spotted that airport did provide a bus to airport which is
cheaper than take taxi. It cost RM 5.00 for one way.
My Kundasang Trip 2014 (Kundasang is located at Ranau)
*As time limited so
below was the places that managed to go by my friends and I*
Kundasang Trip Suggested by me
Upside Down House
>> Poring Hot Springs >> Desa Cattle Dairy Farm >> Rose
Garden >> Memorial Park >> Kinabalu Park
Convocation
During my sister’s
convocation, my family and I took big ferry to Menumbok and followed by bus to
Kota Kinabalu.
Below is the schedule of
the big ferry for your references but I did not sure that whether the schedule
had been change or not.
Before went into
ferry, we had bought ferry ticket at counter. We had directed to purchase bus
ticket Menumbok (RM 18.00) from ferry counter too. The ferry we took was Ferry Wawsan
Perdana.
After arrived
Menumbok, we took for double decker bus and my family chose to sit at downstair
of bus so I also followed them. The seat at downstairs
was so limited which is first come first sit theory so if you want to sit at
downstairs, better to be fast.
My sister and I sat at
the back which only has 5 seats while during the time my father arrived, it
only had one seat in front with an Ustaz (Muslim scholars trained in Islam and
Islamic law). My father did not sit with Ustaz because the Ustaz want sit with someone
who is Islam than Chinese. This time, a Malay guy sat beside us coming front to
sit with Ustaz while my father sat on his seat. When the bus started, the Ustaz
keep reading Al-Quran.
During the bus
journey, my sister and I watched for The Purge: Anarchy movie which made our heart
beat very fast.
Desa Cattle Dairy Farm is been mentioned "seem like malaysian version of New Zealand"
ReplyDeleteIs it True, Hope for your more sharing about it
Wendy, Desa Cattle Dairy Farm is very beautiful that seem like New Zealand which always seen on TV. Do come back to read my post in next Tuesday.
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