如何前往

如果从吉隆玻来，就是进打巴（Tapah）的收费站， 往金宝(Kampar)的方向驶去。途中经过金宝往务边（Gopeng）的方向前进, 约一小段距离后，就能看见双溪古月（Malim Nawar）的路牌，也就是到了一个交通灯，那里有一个加德士油站（Caltex），往左边转进去。过后，向前驶去，约十五分钟后，就会到一个三叉路口，然后往右转，这里没有路牌指向督亚冷，所以必须注意，可是如果错过了这个路口，基本上再往前去是没有路了，所以当你看到双溪古月的警察局时，就是已经错过了往督亚冷的路口了。当转了右后，只要跟着大路直直驶去，约十五分钟后就能到达目的地了。

在这小市镇有许多大大小小的海鲜馆， 我们选择了在路边就能看到的《龙城冷气海鲜酒楼》。

龙城冷气海鲜酒楼

这里以淡水大头虾闻名，大头虾分为三种，既有大虾， 中大虾， 还有中虾， 而我们吃的是最小的中虾。我们理所当然的叫了半公斤的酒蒸大头虾，两个咸蛋螃蟹，还有一个馬來栈巴古菜。

半公斤的酒蒸大头虾共有十二只，我们还是第一次吃到有那么多肉的虾头！虾头里面还有很多虾膏， 我的天呀！胆固醇爆标啦！此外虾肉也很新鲜，很弹牙呢！此外，由于是淡水虾，所以感觉上“虾”味没有那么浓。

酒蒸大头虾

白白色的那些是蛋白，配着酒蒸出来的虾，浓浓的酒味，如果不喜欢酒味的 人可能就不喜欢这道菜了。唯一美中不足的是可能我们只有两个人，又吃又拍照的，吃得太慢了，到最后菜都冷却了。

白白色的蛋白

这是什么？虾蛋吗？

虾蛋?

咸蛋螃蟹的咸蛋味道超浓的，而且螃蟹也有许多蟹膏，再一次让我感觉自己在将一堆堆的胆固醇送进血液里。。。这里的螃蟹很新鲜，只是有点小只，可能老板看我们只有两个人，尽量拿体型小的螃蟹给我们吧！

咸蛋螃蟹

螃蟹敲打器

蟹膏

馬來栈巴古菜也是这里的拿手好菜，满好吃的！

馬來栈巴古

别忘了试一试这里的辣椒酱，带点酸味，很好吃！

除此之外，这里的软壳螃蟹，淡水鱼及蚝煎也是值得一试，只是这次我们只有两个肚子，根本没办法一次试完，也许下次有机会再去，才试试吧！

价钱表

我们一共吃了RM 60.50如下：

半公斤大头虾 – RM 30
螃蟹 – RM 21
巴古菜 – RM 6
饭 – RM 2
茶王 – RM 1.50
总共：RM 60.50
这餐对我来讲是约三人份，所以我们都吃得太饱了！

Pulau Kukup is located South-west of Johor in Pontian District as a fishing village of Kampung Air Masin in Kukup Laut and it is only a small isolated island from mainland. Pulau Kukup is an island covered by mangrove forest and to protect the mangrove forest, Kukup is a national park under the Johor State Park Corporation Enactment 1989 since 27 March 1997. Pulau Kukup is full with marine life which become the main sources to the income for local fisherman.

How to get there

Visitors can access Kukup town from various direction:

1) Using the North-South Highway, exit at Simpang Renggam toll and turn left towards Benut and proceed to Pontian/Kukup

2) Johor Bahru through Skudai and proceed to Pontian

3) Foreign visitors from Singapore and Indonesia can access the town through ferry services.

(Sources:http://travelmalaysiaguide.com/pulau-kukup-johor/ )

There were 12 of us went from Skudai towards Pulau Kukup, spent around 1 hour 20 minutes by car. When we reached there, we called our agent out and she brought us to the house we rented. They actually prepared some lunch such as fry mee, curry chicken, red bean soup etc. for us but we reached there already late evening and our stomach was full of burger!

It was so hot during February time. We opened the air-condition in the living room and started to think how to kill the time before dinner was prepared. Some of us started to sing karaoke but the songs in the house are not the updated songs. We are hardly to find songs that we liked. Some of the couples started to walk around in the small fishing village. The houses there are built on top of the sea and therefore the toilet in the house for what you pass out, is directly go down to the sea!

When the night falls down, the owner of the house came in a family to barbecue food for us. There were fish, prawn, satay, chicken wings, corn and so on. We felt so full and chit chatting because we seldom met each other after graduated from university. After dinner, the owner will do the cleaning and we continued our entertainment in the house. We sang karaoke, played game, chatting and finally went to bed. Girls only a few therefore we slept inside the room and guys felt that the other rooms are small so they all slept in the living room.

Second day, when we woke up, the owner of the house bought us simple breakfast with kuih and nasi lemak. There was also newspaper for us to read. We can also make the milo ourselves using the hot water in the house. After taking the breakfast, we followed our tour agent to fish farm (kelong).

Located in the seas of Kukup are a lot of fish farms. Beyond just raring fishes, they actually brought tourists to visit their fish farms and since it is located in the seas, we were brought there by ferry. After 20 minutes, we arrived the kelong and the workers in the kelong dredged out a small shark and let us snap photo for the shark. I felt quite pity to the small shark, staying in a small places and everyday she got to be dredged out for few times to let tourists see and hold.

After that, the worker took out a crab known as a Horseshoe Crab. He also put some ikan bilis and tried to show to us how the fish “fishing” the ikan bilis. But maybe the fish were full, they were not interested to the food given. There were also some souvenirs you can buy from the kelong.

This time we not managed to go to the mangrove forest because the facilities inside were under maintainance. After visiting kelong, we waited the ferry to carry us out and we walked back to our house to pack.

After packing, we had a seafood lunch and back to Skudai to attend the dinner organised by our juniors. On the way to take our cars, we also managed to buy the famous “ang gu kuih” in Pulau Kukup. This trip costs us RM 80 per person including

1) Tea time in the first day (or shall I call it as lunch?)

2) Barbecue dinner in the first day

3) Breakfast in the second day

4) Seafood lunch in the second day

5) Overnight in the house with all those entertainments, bathrooms etc.

6) A tour to Kelong

At night, we attended the dinner. That night, our theme that we set for ourselves is red colour. Therefore, we all wore red colour in the night. We were late to the night due to we not familiar with the places and our number were too large. It was hard to arrange our transport towards the night organised in Kulai. In the night, we actually not much time to exchange views and got to know better with juniors. It seemed that we just rush there to have a dinner and then rush back home…

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MATTA FAIR KL 2010

Date : 12 – 14 th March 2010

Time : 10a.m -9p.m

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美罗的大街

品珍酒楼

“鸭腿面”是用鸭熬出来的药材汤再加上面，对我来说，面是没什么特别啦，只是她的汤，味道蛮浓郁的！我的美罗朋友说本地人都不大爱到这里吃东西，因为对他们来说，这是砍游客的。可是对我们这些在大城市吃惯东西的人来说，RM 6.60一碗其实也不是那么贵啦！

鸭腿面

鸭腿面

我们还点了出名的芋头角 (RM 1.60一个)！

芋头角

吃饱后，无处可去，于是就往宋溪温泉前去。从美罗去到宋溪温泉的路口只须约十分钟，从路口到温泉，大概8km左右。我们一路驶去，还笑说烈日当空，我们去温泉干吗？？？

沿路往宋溪温泉

雙溪克拉溫泉休閒公園（Felda Sg.Klah Hot Springs）

其实宋溪温泉的名字应该称为雙溪克拉溫泉休閒公園（Felda Sg.Klah Hot Springs）。入门票分为成人RM 10, 兒童（3至11岁）RM 8, 乐龄人士（60岁以上）则是 RM 7。至于残障人士则需付费RM 2。此外，也有全家乐温浴，费用大概是每人RM 25。 温泉的营业时间是从8点早上至7点晚上，而星期六，礼拜及公共假期则是延长到9点晚上。

门票

这里温度很高，不要随便碰！

全家乐温浴

这个温泉是在蒂蒂旺莎山脈腳下，拥有天然泉水，有鉴于此，她被开发成溫泉，里面包含了一个大型的溫泉池和几个不同溫度的小溫泉池。据说温泉水是有医疗效果，促進血液循环。

大型的溫泉池

大型的溫泉池

其中一个不同溫度的小溫泉池

此外，这里还有一个攝氏超過100度的溫泉水池，可以在泉水中煮鸡蛋，
用温泉水煮的鸡蛋比较能保有鸡蛋原有的蛋味。

泉水中煮鸡蛋

我们的行程基本上如下：

第一天

早上 – 椰壳洞
中午 – 美罗吃午餐
傍晚 – 宋溪温泉休闲公园
晚上 – 怡保吃晚餐及过夜

第二天

怡保火车站，三宝洞

一早，我们就启程往椰壳洞出发。约一个小时半，我们就到达了务边（Gopeng)收费站了。出了收费站后，转左往金宝方向驶去，不过其实只要跟着路牌，很轻易的就能到达目的地了。

椰壳洞 (Gua Tempurung)

椰壳洞地图（摘自http://www.perak.info)

椰壳洞的挑战共分为四个阶段，第一个阶段只需费时四十分钟，最适合老人家，成人花费RM 6.00，小孩RM 2.50。第二阶段则需耗时一小时十五分钟，RM 9.00 的入门票，而小孩则是半价。这两个阶段只是走楼梯，难度并不大。第三阶段及第四阶段是难度比较大，而且也会令到全身湿透透！第三阶段费时约两小时，入门票分别为RM 11.00及RM6.00。至于第四阶段的成人入门票为RM22.00，小孩则RM 11.00，需要约三小时才能完成。

椰壳洞 (Gua Tempurung)入门票

我们四人决定拿第三阶段的配套，因为友人说基本上第四阶段与第三阶段的分别只是在于路程的不同，所有挑战性的地方都包含在第三阶段了。由于我们只有四个人，所以我们是与另外几个人一起结合，由一位导游带领我们开始我们的探险旅程。

椰壳洞，是一个纯天然的石灰岩洞穴，曾经是马来亚人民抗日分子的基地，后来更变成了共产党窝藏的地方。

椰壳洞有陆路和水路，陆路是由铁桥及楼梯形成，沿着开发好的山路和石阶前进。一层层的楼梯实在令我们走到头昏脑胀！沿路可以看到令人惊叹的钟乳石和天然岩石。导游还会不时形容一些钟乳石像什么形状，蛮有趣的！有些岩石在电筒照耀下，会闪闪发亮好像水晶石一样！

钟乳石

接着就是水路了，而水路则是一条探险路线，一开始就有一个惊险万分的陡峭滑壁，需要从高处滑下来。导游先安排一位仁兄在中间接应我们，用他的脚为我们减低下滑的速度，真是可怜了那位仁兄！战战兢兢的滑了下来后，我们就得钻进一个很小的地洞，大小就差不多只是一个人的身型，我还很害怕无法穿过去。

一层层的楼梯

陡峭滑壁

在洞穴里面有些地方水深及胸，有些地方则必须在水中像军人般匍匐爬过狭隘的水道。约两小时，我们终于完成了挑战，久没运动的我们已经累翻了！

满脚都是沙

累翻了

我们成功了

小小提示予要挑战第三和第四阶段的人：

- 携带电筒，里面是伸手不见五指的。
- 不要携带钱包及电话，因为全身会湿透。
- 不用携带相机，因为没时间照相，也为了保护相机而无法尽兴。
- 穿树胶鞋。
- 可以不需携带水瓶，因为时间不会很长，也不会热，所以不大需要，不过这是因人而异。
- 越轻便越好，方便钻洞及攀爬。

Desaru Beach-Johor Bharu Tourist Spot

We went there by my car and we spent around 2 hours to reach Desaru.  There are a few ways to go to Desaru as followings:

By bus
There are direct bus services around three times a day from Johor Bahru’s Larkin Terminal to Bandar Penawar. Alternatively, a bus service from Larkin to Kota Tinggi, then from Kota Tinggi to Bandar Penawar.
From Bandar Penawar, you can either take a cab (teksi) or wait the minibus. You can also take a cab from Kota Tinggi directly to Desaru.

By car
Drive to Pasir Gudang Highway and follow Kota Tinggi Direction. You will pass by Ulu Tiram. And from there, there will be brown colour signboard that directing you to Desaru Beach.

By boat
The passenger ferry Changi Ferry Terminal in Singapore and Tanjong Belungkor Ferry Terminal. There are also bumboat services from Changi Point Ferry Terminal to the fishing village of Pengerang and you may take cab to Desaru from there.

If you are not driving to Desaru, you are hard to go around since it is hard to find public transportation nearby. Therefore, we drove to Desaru.

When we reached Desaru, it was about time to took lunch and we had seafood in a famous seafood town “Sungai Rengit“.

Prawn – Lunch in Sungai Rengit

Vegetables

Seafood Restaurant in Sungai Rengit

We headed to Desaru beach and trying to find the chalet that we searched from website,  ”Desaru Holiday Chalet“. We went on weekdays and therefore our room rate was RM120. If you are only two persons, you can choose only standard single. The room rate during weekend is RM 180.

Our Chalet – Desaru Holiday Chalet

Desaru Holiday Chalet Price List

The chalet is like a small house with living area, bathroom and one double bedroom. There are no television in the chalet and it is really a time for you to relax without disturbing from all those technologies. Besides, the hot shower is not provided in the standard single whereby you have to pay extra to get those facilities.

Inside Chalet

The chalet was situated near the sea and when we went out from the chalet, we can see the sea with the peaceful wave sound. We decided to move the chairs to the outside of our house and rest while waiting the day became not so hot.  The wave sound and the beautiful scene really caused me feel very relaxing.

Outside Chalet – Relax

Chalet Sea View

After taking a short rest, we found out that there was a lot of mosquitoes around and we decided to drive down to Petronas to buy coil, drinks and some food.

We then went down to the beach. We walked from one side to another and started playing the sand. I not really played sand before in the beach. Terry suddenly suggested that we should bring camera to take down some photos of our “product”. On the way back to the beach after taking camera, we meet a troop of monkey passed by. Maybe because of having “mums and kids” among the monkeys, some of the monkeys tended to attack us to protect themselves. Although the monkeys not really attacked us, we still felt very shock. We still continue our journey back to the beach and Terry started making his castle!!! I snapped some of his photo with his castle and we decided to move back to take bath.

Desaru Beach

Sand Castle

Wave

Sea and Beach

We went to the restaurant and ate some simple food. It was nothing special but just malay fried mee. After dinner, the night still young. What we normally did in the city like watching television, surfing and etc. was not provided in the chalet and some more we came here for relaxing. Therefore we did not directly go backto our room but we stopped the car along the way we went back to our chalet.

We sat inside the car, opened the window so that we can listen to the song of the sea. It was relaxing and calm. Life is always so busy and we even seldom to chit chat after back from work. We looked at the star and moon while listening to the wave, we shared regarding our dream, our work, our problem…

Night at Desaru Beach

Sunrise at Desaru Beach

The next day, we woke up at 5.00am because we planned to go to see sunrise in the beach. When we stepped out from our chalet, the sky still dark. We waited until the sky became brighter and brighter but still could not really see the sunrise. At first we thought that maybe it was too cloudy and we missed the sunrise. We were about to leave then we finally saw what we expected for. The sun slowly rose up from the sea, a bit a bit more and finally with the whole round shape appeared. We was so excited because it was the first time we saw sunrise in the beach after last time we watch the sunset in the Tip of Borneo (Kindly referred to the post of Kudat, Sabah).

Li Ping Holding Sun

Relaxing Trip in Desaru

We took the breakfast and ended our relaxing trip in this peaceful beach.

Released Date (Malaysia) 12 Nov 2009

Directed by Roland Emmerich

Starring John Cusack, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt, Amanda Peet, Chiwetel Ejiofor

Synopsis

Disaster movie maven Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) crafts this apocalyptic sci-fi thriller following an academic researcher who opens a portal into a parallel universe, making contact with his double in an effort to prevent the catastrophic prophecies of the ancient Mayan calendar from coming to pass.

According to the Mayan calendar, the world will come to an end on December 21, 2012. When a global cataclysm thrusts the world into chaos, divorced writer and father Jackson Curtis uses his knowledge of the ancient prophecies to ensure that the human race is not completely wiped out.

What you will do if the world comes to the end? Haha.. Let’s thinka bout it when you are free or feeling bored.

大学门口

首先，这是大学的医院，拥有普通医药检验，牙医，儿童医疗服务，产妇医疗服务，验血等等的服务，是个设备挺齐全的医院。学生是全免的，如果不是学生也可到这间医院就医，收费与政府医院的一样，只是象征性的收取约RM 5.00。

大学的医院

如果有什么急诊需要到中央医院，这里还设有救伤车呢！

救伤车

这是在女生宿舍里的体育馆，里面有羽球场，壁球场，兵乓桌等。在体育馆外还有网球场呢！工大还有另一个体育馆， 现在更建着另一个体育馆，甚至不久的将来将有一个游泳池将来临到工大。

体育馆

接着这是我的宿舍，我在这里呆了两年。。。这是唯一一间全女生宿舍，其余的宿舍都有分男女宿舍。在这个宿舍供应床，书桌，衣橱等，唯一不好的是每当假期时，我们都得将东西搬出宿舍，开学时又得将东西全搬回进去，有时实在是累啊！！！

 全女生宿舍

这是宿舍里的礼堂，宿舍村的办公室也集中在这里。如果我们懒得出去外面吃晚餐，宿舍村里还有食堂及汉堡包卖呢！

礼堂

Arked Meranti 是我们时常吃饭的地方，至于Arked Cengal甚至还有唯一的华人餐及印度人餐呢!

吃饭的地方

我的系院 （Faculty of Built Environment）。

我在这里上课上了三年，这里没有电梯，可是我们的studio却在最高一层楼。每次考试都在这里考，跑上楼梯都没力了。。。

Studio

我们的电脑班 （Computer Lab）。

电脑班

我们上课的班上 (Lecture Hall)。

Lecture Hall

考试及上Studio

与教授合影

从我们的学院可以看到回教堂，晚上时这回教堂还有漂亮的灯，我们还戏称她为迪士尼乐园呢！

回教堂

晚上的回教堂

Terry是从电脑系（Faculty of Computer Science and Information System）毕业的，在这个系院附近还有一个电脑研究所（C.I.C.T）， 里面有很多电脑供我们去使用，可是要小心电脑病毒！

电脑系（Faculty of Computer Science and Information System）

电脑系院

电脑研究所

哇！怎么有那么破旧的车？其实这辆车是机械工程系（Faculty of Mechanical Engineering）的学生要用的哦！还有几种不同的飞机呢！

破旧的车

飞机

飞机

机械工程系（Faculty of Mechanical Engineering）

电子工程系院

电子工程系院

大学里当然还有许多系院，只是我们没有一一的去拍照。。。

在大学里也有一间银行（CIMB）及邮政局，十分方便。

银行

邮政局

这些都是三年前毕业时拍的， 没想到，现在我又再次毕业了。。。

When we woke up in the morning, we could hear that rain has come to this small fishing village, so we continued to sleep while waiting for the rain to stop, haha. Around 10am, the rain finally stopped. We checked out from the hotel and headed towards the center of the village, there are a lot of food along Jalan Pasar, haha.

#1 Hai Yew Hen Handmade Hainanese Bun (海友兴包点)

Address:
Location:405, Jalan Pasar,
Tanjung Sepat, Selangor,
Tel:03-3197-4144.

Operating Hours:
1.00pm-6.00pm
* Public holiday start from 10.00am

In the early 1990, Hai Yew Hen made just 100 buns a day. Now, thanks to modern mixers, he can produce over a thousand buns daily. The dough is filled with 豆沙(red bean）, 加央(kaya), 花生(peanut）, 生肉(pork meat), 菜(vegetables) or 梅菜(salted vegetables).

Bun Menu

There are a lof of bun and all those bun are sold in “hot”, you can feel the warm of the bun and can’t wait to taste it. It’s a recommended food in Tanjung Sepat!

Buying Bun

生肉包

梅菜包

#2 Yikee Seafood Bak Kut Teh

Yikee Seafood Bak Kut Teh

There are many bak kut teh shops around Tanjung Sepat, and you see mostly all are say “Seafood Bak Kut Teh”. Try to wake up early and try this special breakfast, haha.

Seafood Bak Kut Teh

#3 Arowana Malayan

Tanjung Sepat Arowana Malayan

Address : No. 2926, Jln Kampung Tanjong Sepat, 42800 Tanjong Sepat, Selangor

The cassava/tapioca chips at Arowana Malayan in Tanjung Sepat is famous and delicious. You can visit the factory and buy with cheaper price here.

Arowana Malayan Entrance

Casava/Tapioca Chips

Finally the journey in Tanjung Sepat was end with satisfaction, cheers!

It was a relaxing and no-plan trip… Tanjung Sepat, was being chosen as we wanted to explore this small town with a lot of delicious food and the important thing can hear the wave sound on the seaside. Haha.

My previous post has written about Pantai Morib & Pantai Bagan Lalang, and these 2 places are nearby Tanjung Sepat as well.

On the way to Tanjung Sepat

How to get there?

1) Kesas Highway from Puchong there and headed towards Klang exit,

2) Turn left to Banting at the Klang exit

3) Continue the journey and you just followed Morib or Tanjung Sepat signboard.

You would pass by Teluk Panglima Garang, Jenjarom, Banting, Morib Gold Coast and finally you can see Tanjung Sepat.

Tanjung Sepat Map by Baywatch Restaurant

GanoFarm HomeStay (宝芝林度假屋)

We reached there around 5 pm, and we were hanging around to find our accomodation tonight. We have decided to stay at GanoFarm HomeStay (宝芝林度假屋), RM98 for standard room.

Ganofarm Leaflet

Ganofarm Homestay Outlook

Ganofarm Homestay

千里之行始于足下

We have visited the mushroom farm that situated beside our homestay, it’s a new and special experience, see all kinds of mushroom ang ling zhi as well.

Ling Zhi

Mushroom Farm

Baywatch Restaurant

Finally was the dinner time – Seafood, hurray!!!  This restaurant has a great and relaxing environment, you could enjoy the food while the wave sound was accompanying you all the time. The night fell silently and we just chit chat and listen to the wave sound at the same time…

Baywatch Restaurant

Baywatch Restaurant Outlook

Baywatch Restaurant Seaside

Seaside Scene

Relax

Tiger Beer, Cheers!

Super Delicious Seafood

O Jian 蠔煎

Vegetables

Read more in my coming post (day 2), hope you enjoy your weekends!!!