Perth Day 1

G'day Mate!!

Today I will write on the things that I did on my first day in Perth. We touched down at Perth International Airport around 5.30 a.m. After the immigration clearance, I bought my Optus Simcard at one of the kiosks in at the arrival hall. It costs me 15AUD for 7 days of subscription with 1GB of internet per day and unlimited calls and messages to any local number. 

King's Park

We took a short tour around the city area and survey where our hostel is located. I am staying at City Backpackers Hostel, which is located in Fitzgerald St. in Northbridge. That place is very convenient because it is very near to Cat Bus Station (Free Bus), Perth Arena and also Perth Train Station. AS we arrived pretty early right before dawn, we have not eaten anything for breakfast and our last meal was before our flight at KLIA. Ryan, my foster dad suggested that we should grab something before I check in to the hostel. We went to King's Park, one of the largest park in the world, much bigger than Central Park in New York.

Perth Skyline view

After that, we checked in at our hostel. My friend and I had a quick check-in and settled down a little bit before heading to the city centre. As we were walking, we had no idea on the direction of the city centre. All we see was empty streets at 3.00p.m. Seems strange to us because we are used to see huge crowd back in Malaysia during that hours. As we were walking. we saw Perth Station and finally it brought us to the city centre. They have a lot of shops there and our main objective on that day was to find our phone charger. We got the charger at one of the shops for 15AUD. Then, we went to Woollies for grocery shopping. As an Asian, instant noodle a.k.a Ramen is a must buy to us because it is easy to cook and very convenient. After shopping all the groceries, we stroll around the city area and discover a lot of interesting shops at that area. However, the price for most of the things are kinda expensive. I only bought things that are necessary since that was our first day.

Ramen. The noodles here are kinda different from what we have in Malaysia.

City Centre area.

Vegetables available at Woollies

After our city centre outing, we finally got a very nice sleep on a comfortable bed because we did not get enough sleep. When we woke up, we quickly cook our food for dinner and went to the nearby petrol station to buy some drinks. And we end our night that way. Very quick isn't it? Well, life in Perth seemed to be going very slow from what we have in Malaysia.