Asia 2nd day. Kota Kinabalu arrival

Yes, after the good Asian dinner, we tried to sleep on the floor of the airport and we also failed to do so.Maybe because it was afternoon for our bodies.After some messages to the family and friends through free WIFI connection in the airport, we decided to eat something regarding at our senseless non sleeping on the pure floor of the airport.It was 4am and the airport seemed so alive at that time.
Not so much more time we had to do in KLIA LCCT until our flight at 6:50 was taking off.Walk around, buying some water and sweets and chat abit are some examples of what we've doneto get some benefit of this useless period of time...
Before departing to KK, there was a big storm and it was raining like hell!The storm was much better from the inside with our new tasty juices we bought.
I was really lucky with my bamboo one, but Alex wasn't with a different one which was really awful...
Since we were really tired and the plane to KK was our last step to reach our CS friend Kuni, the idea of sleeping was more than accepted!What a surprise when all the Asian people fell asleep before us, even before the taking off, and even without jet lag!

Once arrived to Kota Kinabalu, in Borneo island,we were thinking that after more than 2 days of travelling we were done.But buses weren't so often, taxis were kind of expensive and our language skills on the island were not enough to act like local people...Luckily, to women saw us a bit lost asking for a lift to a bus driver who was with an organised trip.They offered us a lift to the centre and we accepted without hesitation.

They were working for an agency (tropicalholidaysparadise.com) and they seemed reliable enough to accept the invitation. (Mum, don't worry, I don't accept every proposition I have ;))They drove us to our friend's job, giving us some advices and also a good chat.Thanks for that!
Once with Kuni, our Japanese CouchSurfing.org host in Kota Kinabalu Grand Ville, he took us home, prepared our bed and introduced 2 other couchsurfers from Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) and our beloved Poland, more concretely Warsaw.

Afterwards we'd seen ourselves with power enough to go to the centre and sightsee a bit, without expecting that our bodieswould not fight against jet lag for much longer...
We ate closeby Kuni's house for RM5 (1eur=4.6RM aprox.) and started to sightseeing the Mosque where we had to cover our knees abnd wash hands and feet,the Sikh temple, where we had to cover our head as the guy told us.They were 2 of the most important places to visit in KK along with the Sabah museum where our bodies said stop after walk inside...

We would have loved to reach the centre, but with such a sun an tireness, we stopped in the first market we found.We bought some shower utilities, some food for the "tortilla de patata" and breakfasts, two hats and a Malaysian SIM card to use it with my mobile phone.
No more time to waste since we wanted to rest before our meeting in Kuni's place with Gon,another CS friend and also scuba divering instructor.

Coming back home, a heavy rain cought us and we had to make some stops to preserve ourselves dry...After all this tiring day (starting at 3am in Kuala Lumpur International Airport)we had a great Japanese-Malaysian-Polish-Canadian-Spanish dinner.Another CSfer from Canada, was living also in Kuni's place and he cooked some Indian food.We did our speciality "Tortilla de patata" and there was some rice made by Kuni (Rice couldn left inand Asian house!)
After some chat ans some shots of a special local drink, the bed was calling us really loudly.And here I am, laying in bed writing these lines. In the meantime Alex tries to sleep after writing his summary of the day.
My eyes are really heavy and my body prays for some sleep.
Good night to everyone!

P.S. We had no shower during the whole day. A problem with the water pipes allowed us to have a very sticky skin.

Written after dinner laying in bed
30th July 2009
Kota Kinabalu 00:30