Kota Kinabalu

4^th October

What a great sleep last night at the Masada Backpackers. Clean rooms, comfortable beds and great pillows. The showers had great water pressure – so nice to get properly clean. After some simple toast with vegemite or jam (vegemite always tastes better overseas) we headed off to the Gaya Street markets. Great to wander around the stalls – lots of things to attract the tourists. It was a lovely sunny day, however when we walked further into the street the breeze could not be felt and we started to sweat! We said our goodbyes to the Wells family who were flying to Kuala Lumpur today and kept on shopping. The kids and I got ourselves some henna tattoos and then had a nice rest in a local restaurant for lunch before heading back to the normal shops. We couldn’t resist the temptation of a foot massage (each) for RM25 (AUD8). Back to our accommodation to organise a hire car for tomorrow and for the kids to have a rest in the room in air conditioned comfort (with WiFi).