Gaya Street Tamu-28 september 2008

I am on holiday in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah from 27 september 2008 until 12 October 2008. Kota Kinabalu is a best place to go holiday if you a looking for a white sandy beaches and beautiful craft. Kota Kinabalu also a great place for Borneo banknote and coin collector. The important thing is you need to have a good bargaining skill.

28 September 2008, I went to Kota Kinabalu tamu@pasar minggu in Gaya street. It is situated in town, near to state library. Gaya street tamu open once a week on Sunday from 6am until 12pm. If you want to buy your banknote and coin cheap, you need to wake up early and be there at 8am.

Gaya Street Tamu sell many things that produce locally. Most of the items sell here is crafts, food, pets and flowers. Sea shells collecting is a new hobbies that just start booming in Sabah in the last 5 years. This seller sale many sea shells that I never saw anywhere before. I don't know if sea shell collecting is illegal in Malaysia, I don't collect them.

If you want to find a banknote and coin seller in Gaya street Tamu. They're only two frequent sellers in here. One is a Bajau ethnic uncle who is selling Gong, parang, kulintangan and many Sabah musical instruments. You need to listen carefully and find a local music sound, that will be him since he is the only one who sell them. I cannot find him though. Maybe because he is on holiday for a hari raya aidilfitri preparation.

Another one is Uncle Lim a Chinese who sell many stone and other crafts. Most of his banknote and coin already sold out a few months before. I bought 3 RM20 Malaysia ringgit denomination at a cheap price. Will auction them in lelong when I go back to port klang.

Both of this sellers, you need to bargain for a good price. The easy thing to do is to buy their item in bulk. Make sure you asked for the price of one item 1st and asked for discount. After that, add another item and asked for discount again. The price will be lower each time you add one item. This method will not be useful if you are going there after 8am. When both of them already have many customers. The best thing to do is to come early to make sure you're their 1st customer.