Sunday, October 26, 2008
Road Trip - Day 5
The last and final day of our trip. We left
Upon arrival, we had to pay an entrance fee to access the water park and
Anyway, we soon headed towards the
The night began to fall upon us which was are cue to get out of Trolak. So, back to home sweet home. Unfortunately, the ride back was not so sweet. In fact, it was quite a stressful and scary ride back as Boeing 7887 was low on fuel. This part of the trip was the ‘fastest’ that Kantha had ever driven on a highway. He was doing all in his power to get power from each and every drop of fuel left. The most stressful part of this ordeal was that we would see the sign boards for rest stops and hoping for a petrol pump sign. We drove by one, none. Drove by a second, none. Drove by a third…also none. We were in deep shit. Thank goodness we got to one on the next pit stop. PHEW!!
To end our trip, we had a late dinner with some good old pork. We had Bak Kut Teh along Jalan Raja Laut. The famous stall under the tree. Everyone was sent back after that which concludes our Road Trip!
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Road Trip - Day 4
Not 1, not 2 hills but quite few and not just 10%, 20% gradient but even up to 50% gradient hills. Let’s just say that we had a real workout to get to our destination. Of course we made a few stops to catch our breaths. In the end, we had a late lunch at Teluk Nipah with some burgers and fried rice.
Having refueled our ‘tanks’, we spent quite some time at the beach here and this was the clearly the best beached we visited throughout the whole trip. The water was reasonably clear, the sand was not too shabby and the weather was rather nice.
When everyone had about enough of the salt water, we headed back WITH our bicycles. Fortunately, returning to the hotel was half as taxing or tiring. From sea to pool yet again. We had loads of fun in the pool on this day as we did some battling…you know the one where one person sits on the shoulders of another person and tries to push the other team down. We rotated partners and had quite a number of battles but in particular, I won’t forget Shiao Teng’s amazing recovery…celaka! (come to think of it, she may have some abs…don’t play play man :P)
Since it was the last night of our trip, we decided to have a nicer dinner. We were actually hungry for some ikan bakar but apparently we were on the wrong part of the island to get some. So we settled for some Chinese food like crispy chicken served with thai chilli sauce, vegetables, claypot wild boar and few other dishes.
Après nous prenons notre dîner (After we had our dinner), we bought some soft drinks and just went to the beach nearby our hotel to chill out. It was really relaxing.
Again, as the last night, we just took time to relax back at our hotel. Everyone turned in after telling and listening to stories…especially from Apple!
Road Trip - Day 3
Check out time, 10 am. As soon as we received our deposit, we made our way out of Sri Sayang and onto the next destination. About an hours drive from the bridge would get you to Taiping. This is where we stopped for lunch. As Shawn’s mum is from Taiping, she recommended that we go to Cashere’s Market to eat as it is one of the biggest food courts in town. By the time we arrived, it was just nice to have our meal. Let’s just say that everyone was pretty pleased with the pricing of food and drinks here. Just to give a rough picture… 5 drinks including canned drinks totals up to RM7. A plate of Char Kuay Teow, no more than RM3 and chicken rice not more than RM3.50. As this was personally my second time to Taiping, I still think this town has the cheapest pricing on hawker’s food. After lunch, I took the group to Taiping’s
We reached Lumut at about 4.30pm and had to take the ferry across to
The sun was about to set and we decided to head to the beach. Down the street from our hotel was a long stretch of beach which was quite decent. We found ourselves a spot along the beach and went on to test the waters. By this time, the tide was coming in and granted us the chance to have some good fun with the waves. The guys started off trying to ride the waves as it hit the shore. Soon everyone gave it a go. There was a battle going on and guess who won? Yes. The sea bullied the hell out of us…haha, but we really had a smashing…or should I say…splashing time. As the tide was getting quite high and sun almost set, we retreated to the hotel’s pool…the same routine as we had in
After dinner, what do we do? The same thing we did on previous nights but this time with the premium stuff. Some black jack and mushrooms got everyone…in the right mood to have a sound sleep. :)
Road Trip - Day 2
Later, we returned to the condo to gear up to go to the beach. We had no clue where to find nice beaches in
Having had enough of the sea water, we retreated to Sri Sayang’s pool and again had a pretty good time. This time we didn’t get chased out.