After the Sabah State Museum, I returned to the Sabah Art gallery, the lights were working this time. Inside was paintings of moden art (oldest painting here was 2006 – 3 years old), most of which was for sale.
A few pictures I liked, but my favourite object had to be a 1 metre tall Praying Mantis made out of metal wire and welded and grinded down by the artist. I couldn’t get a picture as the art gallery was open plan and a guard was watching.
Attached to the art gallery was a science centre which comprised of about 6M squared of some childrens science experiments and that’s it. Further back was an exhibition of how the oil industry started in Malaysia, which seemingly is sponsored by shell from my guess due to the shell logos everywhere. Shell was the first company to discover oil the Malaysian coast, so credit is where it’s due. This image is of what shell sees our world as with and without oil, its a bit overly dramatic, not everyone wears oil based clothing (socks?) for example:
Life without oil
After walking a little of the heritage village (local plants, very much the same as the sepilok rainforest experience I did 2 weeks ago). I went to the Islamic Civilisation Museum.
It was shaped like a mosque outside and just seemed to be filled with lots of Qurans from different parts of the world and from different eras. A lot of this museum wasn’t translated to English so I couldn’t really educate myself as much as I’d want too on the artifacts shown unfortunately. Again no photos allowed.
Islam museum
A quran on display
Photography is not allowed
I walked back to my hostel but got completely lost. I seemed to wonder into a residential area, where a man showed me his live fish he just caught and asked if I wanted to take a photo, unfortuantely it fell over just as I took the shot, but it had spikey fins and was an ugly thing:
Spikey fish, still alive
I then came across 3 kids whos English was poor, they tried to help me (and charge me for the help) when I asked for directions, they was pointing at the direction I came from so I wasn’t too happy to follow their advice as I’d just walked 40mins from that direction. Luckily a taxi came by and beeped so I went with him to KK Times Square.
On arrival at Times Square, he asked what part I wanted to be dropped off at ‘near the shops’ I said, as it seemed like an large empty glass building. There was about 5 shops open the other side, none of which were serving food or drink. As it turns out this place has only just finished construction, so it was a mistake trying to get here anyway (although clearly advertised on the local map I had).
The taxi driver took me back into the city centre instead. It was my 2nd major navigation mistake since travelling (and yesterday), and I’m sure it won’t be the last, live and learn! I lost my room key during this time too.
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sorry you had the run around today but got there in the end
It’s all part of the fun. Would be boring if everything went straight forward.
Getting lost you find out more about your surroundings and yourself.