We reached The Old Swan Barracks and left our bags in their holding room.
Everytime, when I reach a new destination, I will have to do one thing first.

I will explore that particular location I’m staying. Scaling my perimeter, leaving my first-timer footmarks all around the Perth city was what I did. Yes, I traveled the city on foot! Also we need to study on the public transportation system so that we know how to move around on what mode of transportation in Perth.

Spent pretty much half-morning walking around the city, which is actually quite small. So after walking for some time, we decided that we should find a place for lunch. Looking around we found a Malaysian restaurant on Barrack Street. Wheeee!!! Malaysia Boleh!!

NO! We didn’t dine in there. They are serving Roti Canai for AUD$ 8, if I’m not mistaken! Gosh! I wonder if they actually make the dough for 48 hours… -_- Worth the money you pay ma. Taste nicer also.

Rue said that, if we don’t visit The Perth Mint while we are in Perth, our trip will be incomplete. So, Perth Mint then we went looking. Read. Given my “superb” skills with map and location, I took the lead. I failed. I lead them towards the west of Hay Street, Wellington Street, Murray Street and ended up in Chinatown instead. Haha. Don’t blame me! My mapping skills needs 24 hours to adjust from Kuala Lumpur to a new location, Perth. :P

Decided to throw away my men ego in asking for directions, I walked into Perth Visitor Centre which is just right opposite of Perth Train Station and ask for directions instead. The centre has all the information you need to know about Western Australia in a whole. What to do, where to eat, where to stay and many more. They have their advisors all ready to take your questions and give you their best advice.

We got our new direction to the mint and it is right towards the east of the city on Hay Street. It is like the other end of the city. We arrived at the mint just in time to join a group for the tour.

Once we are done with The Perth Mint, we headed back to the city with red Central Area Transport (CAT) bus. It took us back to the city center on William Street and Hay Street. It is already 6pm and by the time we walked around again to explore the city, the time is about 7pm. The city is dead at this hour. Like dead, dead.

It is getting late and while walking back along Murray Street, we saw a group of people looking up and there was this graphic video shown on a building and eerie background music playing.

It was an abstract video presentation of tiny humans put together to form abstract movements and objects. I seriously do not understand the whole meaning of the video, but hey, didn’t I say abstract?

We are totally beat and we retire back to our hostel.

There you go, exploring the city one whole day on foot. Imagine if you do that in Malaysia, you are already swimming in your cloths. The weather in Perth is so nice that you don’t really sweat because their summer is dry, not humid. Oh… I miss the weather in Perth.