Off to Kuching!
We were up at six and were out the door an hour later. Brendan drove us to KL Sentral's KL City Air Terminal ten minutes to seven. He had initially planned to tag along but an upcoming final year project presentation meant that we had to cancel his middle seat 6E.
As always we bought our train tickets online and enjoyed a discount so it only cost us RM43.75 each (approximately USD10/EUR9).
This is important since the only way to check in at the KL City Air Terminal was with the KLIA Express tickets. We scanned our train tickets at the turnstile and voila! We were in. We submitted our yellow submarines for a security check before checking it in. Our bags weighed 25kgs in total, well within the allowed total of 40kgs.
We then exited the KL City Air Terminal and walked across past the KLIA Express turnstiles using the same train tickets. The train was already waiting and departed KL Sentral at 7:30am, arriving in KLIA half an hour later. We took the escalators up to the Departure Level and strolled along before having drinks at Costa Coffee.
Our hot Latte and Iced Strawberry Tea came to RM36.35 (approximately USD9/EUR8). We spent the next hour here people-watching and with two hours till our flight departed we strolled past the domestic departure gates at 9:00am.
We were catching flight MH2520 from Gate B9 that would take off at eleven in the morning.
We spent another hour or so people-watching at the boarding gate waiting area and the boarding process began at 10:30am. Brendan's cancelled middle 6E was occupied by Mr Chong who was kind enough to swap with Cat's aisle seat 6D. The cabin crew did not object to the swap as well.
We pushed back half an hour later, but a delay due to a runway inspection by the airport authorities meant that we eventually took off at 11:25am. The flight was uneventful and we were served our inflight meal half an hour later. We both opted for the Fish with Rice.
MH2520 began its descent at 12:35pm and landed half an hour. We got past Customs & Immigration then collected our luggage from Carousel XX and walked out of Kuching Airport where our regular car rental guy Awang Amirul was waiting. He offers very attractive rates and you can reach out to him here at https://bit.ly/3IlMUIA
He handed over the keys to the blue Perodua Bezza to us and after fixing our camera onto the windscreen mount made our way to our regular homestay in Kampung Kenyalang Park, hosted by the awesome host Adelyn.
After a quick shower we walked out in search of a late lunch and settled on Kim Coffee Garden where we had:
- Sarawak Laksa
- Curry Mee
- Iced Milk Tea
- their signature Coffee
Our first Sarawakian meal came to RM26.00 (approximately USD6/EUR5). We then walked over to the Everwin Supermarket to get some provisions before heading back to Adelyn's homestay.
Stay tuned as we head out to dinner an hour's drive away!
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