INTRODUCTION
On 24th till 27th of May 2014 which is Saturday to Tuesday, I have followed a trip to Kundasang, Sabah, Malaysia for community service activities at Lembah Permai Kundasang Village. The week I go is the mid-semester break in UiTM. On sharp 12.00am, I with my others friend which followed the trip gathered in front of the Melati College to wait for the bus heading to Kuala Lumpur International Airport 2 (KLIA2). The bus arrived in front of the College sharp at 12.45am and after 40 minutes we did arrived at the KLIA2.
After we arrived on KLIA2, we have to wait till 4.00am to check-in the stuff we have bring at the domestic counter and its take almost one hour. At 5.00am, we go through airport scanner before waiting at the airline lounges for domestic departure and don’t forget to bring boarding pass. Right at 6.00am., we moved into the plane fly to the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA) and 7.00am the plane start to flying.
It is take about four hour to reach KKIA from KLIA2. At 11.00am, the plane touchdown at KKIA and we got to pass airport scanner at the KKIA too. When we reach the KKIA, there have one Sabah’s UiTM bus waiting outside to bring us to the first place in Kota Kinabalu which is Sabah Museum. Check it out on few places I have written!
1. Sabah Museum
Sabah museum is the first places I have go, it is so excited to explore others people cultural in Sabah. The bus have arrived on the Sabah Museum at 11.45am which we straight from KKIA to there. Before we get into the Museum, we need to buy ticket to entry and explore inside. But sadly to say, inside the Museum anybody can’t take any picture. So, we just walk around in the Museum quickly as the outside of the Museum have the Heritage Village Phase 1 that we can walk around too. We take about 20 minute to finish look the entire goods heritage. At the Heritage Village Phase 1, we must walk on a long bridge to reach a heritage home at there.
At the Heritage Village which is on the Museum grounds, we have walk on a long bridge to reach the heritage home at there. Along the bridge, we did take a lot of picture for our own reminiscence shows that we have going the places once. We did experience to enter different types of traditional houses with a lot of indigenous groups of Sabah. This place will always organizing a cultural activity from time to time. Too bad for us, because there is no cultural activities being organized on that day.
2. Handicraft Market
We are going to this place at night right after we check in college at the Uitm Sabah, Kota Kinabalu campus. After we are performing solah maghrib, we going to the Philippines Market before we have to move to other residence at Kundasang which is a homestay at Kampung Sinisan, Kundasang. For the first time I’m step at the market, I thought the Philippines Market, Central Market and Handicraft Market was a same market and selling same thing. I was wrong.
At the Handicraft Market, the most favourite place to go for locals and tourist because there is too much of choices on every single thing, such as keychain, T-shirt, souvenir, handicraft and also real pearl jewellery. Besides that, the thing that hard to be finding at other place in Sabah is the traditional instrument (sompoton).
After have a long walk at the Handicraft Market, we were feeling hungry and thirsty. So, we just walk after Handicraft Market about few minutes, we can see a place that look like Night Market or Pasar Malam. At there, the market has separated a few sections that have their own specialist such as dry food, wet food, seafood and hawker stalls. Don’t be worried, all of the meals serve like in food court in properly sheltered. Choose any seafood that you like, the hawker will give the best taste for any food their served.
3. Poring Hot Spring
The third day of the trip, we are going to the Poring Hot Spring because on the second day we are doing the community service activities at the Lembah Permai Kundasang Village. Early in the morning, we are ready to go to the Poring Hot Spring to explore what we can go through at the place. We going there by bus that take only 5 minute from the residence we stay at the Kundasang. To enter and walk around in the Poring Hot Spring, we have to buy entry fees for only RM3.00 per person.
At here, we stop for a while and sit on wuluh cottage beside the enclosed bath tub counter & locker room. Some of us have rent a locker to put some stuff because we will walk to the Canopy Walkway which has about 157.8m long distance and 41m of high. After walk on Canopy Walkway, we straight go to Kipungit Waterfall which not far from Canopy Walkway. We take a break at there almost 20 minute because of the calmness of the nature. The time shows that almost 12.00 noon, so we have to go back and have our lunch.
4. Desa Dairy Farm
After we are having break for lunch, we performing Solah Zuhur then we going to the Desa Cattle Dairy Farm. The place is at foothill of Mount Kinabalu which we can’t go with the bus. So, we try to get some help from a few uncles which driving 4x4 wheel car to bring us to that place. We finding 4x4 wheel car because all of us will separated into 3 groups to ride on the back of the 4x4 wheel car. Alhamdulillah, we have find that 3 uncle with his 4x4 wheel car.
Without wasting time, we convoy heading to the Desa Cattle Dairy Farm. It’s a new experience to go a place with riding at the back of the 4x4 wheel car which is open air. It does only take a few minute to reach there and first thing to do is buy the entry fees for only RM4.00 per person before we got to see the cattle farm. It have a beautiful scenery at there and it also breathtaking.
At there, we can see the separate building which at the left side is the Milk Processing Plant and the right side is the main counter we must go in, Desa Cattle (Sabah) Sdn Bhd. Inside the building, everything is product of dairy cattle product which have the bottled milk, ice cream in many flavor, T-shirt and not to forget the souvenir. Besides that, it has 1 part in the building which can see the process to produces dairy cattle. Before we are going back to home stay, we grab the chance to enjoy the open space that not far with the big rock that we can sit on it and take a lot of picture and enjoying the delicious ice cream.