We took breakfast sitting outside at the hotel. They certainly serve an amazing buffet breakfast (PNB Perdana Hotel & Suites on the Park).
The other good thing with the hotel is they have a launderette with washing machines and tumble driers. You purchase your tokens from the supermarket next door (yes all this is on the 8th floor of the hotel). Whilst waiting for our laundry we sat in the games room, where we could have played snooker or table football, but we have computer things to catch up on and there is always something to watch from a the window on the 8th floor.
Laundry sorted and we set off for the Butterfly farm. This was easy to find as we had passed it the day before on the way to Bird World. We caught the Hop on Hop off bus as we still had a couple of hours left on our ticket. This was the long way to go but at least we got to see the city from the top of an open air bus.
The entry fee to the Butterfly Farm is 44 mr. It is a lovely peaceful area with the butterfly’s in free flight. You wander through the pretty gardens that are landscaped into the hill. There are several water features and waterfalls.
There are feeding posts for the butterfly’s. Some were Hibiscus flowers that were drizzled in honey and others were pieces of fruit. Always we saw butterfly’s feeding from these.
The range of butterfly’s in the park is vast and we saw very small ones to extremely large ones and some that were very plain while others were so colourful. The most amazing one for me was the butterfly that when it was feeding it would fold its wings and look just like a dried leaf.
There is a cafe and a gift shop as you leave the park.
It was New Years eve so we went in search of a bottle of wine to have before going out for dinner. This is very hard to find in a Muslim country. Eventually we found a supermarket with a little back room that sold some wine. Wine is very expensive here and the bottle we chose turned out to be only just drinkable!!!
Time for dinner and the New Year celebrations to commence. Please see our page: New Year.