We arrived pretty late in Kuching and unlucky for us, the hotel had allocated our room to someone else. I had prepaid for a riverview room, but they no longer had any available and gave us a streetview. Traveller tip: ranting and raving does not help in such circumstances. Being gracious gets you much, much further. I simply told the staff I was disappointed that their promise to me was not fulfilled and I hoped to be moved when a room became available. They promised me that one would be free the next day, so I said, fine, we’ll take the streetview room for the first night.
Not 15mins after we got to our room, the phone rang and guess what. They upgraded us… to a suite. The room was HUGE. With a separate dressing room and bathroom. The bathroom was easily as big as a normal room. SWEEEEET!
The building on the right is Fort Margherita and the one on the left is the newly built and commissioned Sarawak State Assembly (DUN) building. How new was it? It seems the opening ceremony of the building was not 3 days before we arrived.
Awesome looking makan place across the river. Unfortunately, we had yet to learn how to cross to the other side(you can take the boats for about 50sen), so we decided to eat on the waterfront.
kereng meehoon goreng special. Basically rice noodles fried with clams and prawns. I really liked this dish (there would be a repeat performance on day 6)
After putting the better half to bed, I decided I need to stretch my legs and take an exploratory walk near the hotel. Not such a good idea. You’d think that it would be cool at night, but no. The haze literally trapped the heat, so the nights were hot, and being next to the river meant it was especially humid. I had barely walked 200m before my shirt was soaked through. Sucking in all that smoke wasn’t good for my lungs either (more to this story later)
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