3rd day in Perth. Perth is such a lovely and simple city. I could not make a conclusion whether I like this place or not cos travelling and living are totally different thing. But at the moment I think this is a nice place. Not very complicated, safe and peaceful.
My uncle is my private tour guide and he brought me to all the attractions. Hmmm of course not too far away from their house. I wish I could go to see the Pinnacles and the wave rock but these places are few hours drive from Perth. Madness...so I guess I would not have the chance to go anyway. However, I'm not very ambitious in exploring Perth, I'm only seeking for leisure tour with good foods and little sight seeing. As I was not expecting my uncle to bring me from day to night. It would be too tired for him.
Today we went to Perth Zoo and The Perth Mint. So I guess I would not want to go to Zoo in Sydney and Melbourne. haha...hmmm the Zoo is not too bad at least the price is good not like the Australia Zoo in Sunshine Coast which cost $42 per entry. We did not go anyway. The zoo is well organized but few things were not in my satisfaction list. Quite a number of animal exhibitions were under construction and some of the animals were unable to be seen. A bit disappointed. For instance, Quakkas, which is one of the specialty animals in WA, was taken off from the display for the reason of under construction. Big disappointment. Deduct few cookie points.
My favourite Penguins
The other dissatisfaction was the orang-utan exhibition. hmmm...from biology conservation point of view, even though the animal is housed in the zoo, it should be given the most natural possible living area. However, they built a concrete play ground for these man of the forest. So...I think I'm not on their side for this. It's too man made and in fact it's not good for the animal. Sad case.
What do you think of it??
We spent 3 and a half hours in the zoo and left for lunch after that. We had Vietnamese food for lunch. The waitress recommended hot and spicy rice vermicelli to me. It's very tasty especially the specially made chilli but too big portion for me. yummy!!...But I cant accept the way they serve the bean sprout in raw...the raw smell and taste is out of my acceptable range. Nonetheless, I ate half of the bean sprout. Haha...proud of myself man! My high tolerance of food varieties. Now even better!
The Perth Mint was the next stop after lunch. It is one of the oldest Gold Mints in Australia. I went for the guided tour in which including a briefing on the mint history and a demonstration of gold pouring. Cost me $13 for a concession pass. So nice of them to accept my Student ID. They accepted my ID for the Zoo concession as well. Add a few cookie points for WA.
The only photo of mine of the day-at The Perth Mint entrance
Called it for the day. Dinner..I think it's affordable to skip. 50% of the noodles still occupying my stomach.
Eventually, we had Indian cuisine for dinner. We ordered few roti nan and masala tosai, went with some dahl and curry. I thought the dinner will be better cos I already told my uncle that i was still full, still, it was another blotted dinner. I really worry my mum could not recognise me after my Aus trip. But the curries were really tasty!! Yum yum..