The surrounding was filled with fresh air. It’s our second day of our Sarawak trip. The wakeup call was 7am today. After a few minutes of briefing of what we are going to do before lunch, we head for breakfast at the long house. Today’s breakfast is kind of special as, it will be our last meal at the long house. After that, meals will be at somewhere else as our accommodation has changed which is to Merdeka Palace Hotel. It is one out of the three five stars hotel in Sarawak. It rained heavily after we had our breakfast. But thank GOD, it was only for awhile.
We put on our thinking caps on finding the way to not get the luggage wet when they are being transported to the bus from the entrance of the cultural village. After breakfast, we visited, ‘Kampung Telaga Air’. At the kampung or village in English, we learned how to make the traditional Sarawak kuih called Kuih Penyaram.An old lady taught us ways on how to make the kuih. The kuih is simply nice and sweet. Everyone was given a chance to fry their own kuih.
After that, we walked around a few distance away till we reached a hut where it is specially for creating boats. An old man explained to us his experience and ways to create a boat. It roughly takes around 2 months to create a boat. He has more than 30 years of experience the lowest price of a boat is around RM2800.Bigger boats needs more helps which simply means that he needs more man.
After the long explanation on how to make boats, each group was assigned to different house to explore the fishing mans’ house and to also feel the atmosphere on how is it like to live in a kampung house. We had a half an hour friendly talk with the owner. He showed us around his house and his ‘instruments’ that he uses for fishing.
We were then brought to a jetty to have our fishing activity. None of the SKY caught a fish. How sad. . We then had lunch at the kampung site. Although the dishes were quite simple, all of us indulge it fully. Maybe because we were just too hungry. We then had a 1 hour ride to the Cat Museum or what Aunty Lin told us; ‘Musium Pusak’. Though the museum was quite small, the statues and pictures displayed were great. Posters and pictures of cats are just everywhere!
After a half an hour visit at the cat museum, we head for another long ride to the Kek Lapis factory. Kek Lapis Dayang Salha sells unique taste of kek lapis. They have blueberry, durian, watermelon, white chocolate, walnut, almond, Cadbury and many more flavors. They were just irresistible! We are even allowed to order our kek lapis and have them delivered to us by Friday. So that our friends and families in Singapore can taste it in a fresh condition.
We then head to our hotel and had a 3 hour rest. We had to be in the lobby at 7pm so that we can have our dinner. Everyone gathered at the lobby and without further delay, we bought the bus and head to Top Shot Seafood Restaurant. Of course, we had seafood for dinner. The dishes are SUPERB!! We chilled for awhile and the ladies and gentlemen *ehem went separate ways to shop for light snacks.
By now, all of my team mates should already be sound asleep and its 0100am. Here I am doing the summarized version of day 2’s reflection.IM STILL AWAKE.HAYATI IS STILL AWAKE.
WITH LOVE;
Huda, Syahidah, Irfan, Nabil, Taufiq& Hayati.
Good night and sweet dreams. <*^_^*>
