Tuesday, December 16, 2003

Miri, Miri On The Wall

The bus made a couple of toilet and food stops during the night. A vast section of the road was under construction, and was bumpy and potholed, and I couldn't sleep during that bit. We arrived at Bintulu about 9:00, the bus had a flat tire, so they had to change it at the bus terminal. From Bintulu to Miri, they showed two movies, "Hollow Man" (dumb movie, seen it before) and Hanuted Mansion, with Eddie Murphy, it was pretty good.

Got to Miri about 2:00. So much for a 14 hour bus ride, it was more like 17 hours! I got a taxi from the long-distance bus terminal to the visitor information centre/local bus terminal, and from there walked to the Fairland Inn, 30 ringget/night for A/C, hot water, and a TV (with one fuzzy station).

I walked back to the visitor information centre to get info on getting to Niah National Park, then walked around town, had lunch at KFC, then started to walk up to Canada Hill, where oil was first discovered in Sarawak in 1910, but a big, ugly black cloud was moving in, so decided against it.

Walked around a bit more, back to the room, wrote in journal, figured out a plan for my remaining 8 days in Borneo, read for a while, then to bed about 9:30. Tired after the night bus last night.

Note about fast-food joints. In most countries I have been too, the fast-food joints (McDonalds, KFC, etc.) are similarly priced to Canada, after doing the conversion. The exception is Malaysia. You can get a Big Mac Meal for just over $2CDN. Same with KFC. EVen Pizza Hut is cheap. It's weird that in other SE Asia countries, the prices are quite a bit higher, on par with Canadian prices.

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