Kucing (said KUUCHING) - Cat city, the city of cats, where cats rule and cats are the best

We always knew Kucing translates to Cat in malay/indo but I couldn’t really believe the town had anything to do with cats, that would be absurd right? Wrong! As we arrive we saw there were cat monuments everywhere, as we walked down the street each manhole in the footpath had the Cat council symbol on it, cats in the street, an adorable cat living at our guesthouse and cat souvenirs.

A Kucing Roundabout, complete with cats

Another Kucing roundabout, Macca's wasn't going to miss this photo opportunity

A little cat monument

So I of course loved Kucing at first sight. We spent five days on holiday here, doing nothing but playing monopoly, watching cable, playing with 8 month Kimino the Tuxedo Kitty, walking around town and eating yummy food. 'Beds' guesthouse was like a home away from home, Dave and I could have stayed there for 6 months happily. I would canceled the rest of our trip to live in Kucing, but we had to move on after 5 days to KL before Java, which we did on July 9th my 28th birthday. And there is nothing better than spending your birthday in an Air Asia check-in line when the systems are down with Jet Star flashbacks a plenty. But we made it to KL for coffee, cake and a movie (Dave was very very nice to sit through Sex and they City 2 with me), in the end a lovely night.

 Beds Guesthouse, our home away from home

Dave writing home about it...

Kimino the resident kitty