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Thursday, 22 September 2011

WinTeR sOnAta - iNcHeoN wItH lOVe

Travel memories in pipeline:
1. Winter Sonata at Incheon by Capt Farouq
2. Sea Cruise Dream  by Alphanso
3. Swimming with Dolphin by Azlin
4. Land of Eagle - White blood maiden by Nizam

wait for the next postings!!

Wednesday, 21 September 2011

LeT's gEt WeT - rAfT, CaNopY & gAlaXy sLiDe

Our Vacation : 31st August, 2011
Location : Gambang Water Park, Pahang, Malaysia
Rating : 3*


A day after Eid Mubarak celebrated by us, our big family have a trip to Gambang Water Park. The park can be accessed through East Coast Expressway, the highway that linked Kuala Lumpur to Kuantan and other east coast cities in Malaysia. If you drive from Kuala Lumpur, it might take 3 to 4 hours to arrive there. If you are from Kuantan, it might takes 30 to 35 minutes. Look for Gambang exit, after toll follow the signboard to the park.

This park offers many water activity attractions among others - galaxy, canopy and crystal slides -all are amazing water slides from top of hill . Swimming pool, fresh water tide pool, man made white water rafting and many more. May be it is not as excellent as Sunway Lagoon, the best water attraction in Asia, but worth to visit and give a try.

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

mOunTaiN rEsOrT - CoOl aiR & hOt RiDe (pArT 2)



Tips: Avoid to go there during raining season, normally on December. The outdoor park will be closed once raining. Check your weather forecast.However, you still can enjoy indoor park but different charge need to pay.

If you are lucky, there will sometimes an international show at Arena All Star Hall for free. During our visit, there were acrobatic show performed by China mainland performers.

Dinosaur Land is also another main attraction there. You will be taken around by boat to view pre-historic land with various kind of  dinosaurs in action.

We were not staying there, our visit lasted around 10pm before we headed back to Kuala Lumpur with full exciting memory.

mOunTaiN rEsOrT - CoOl aiR & hOt RiDe (pArT 1)

Our Vacation : 12th March, 2011
Location: Genting Highland, Malaysia
Rating : 4*

Many people around the world should have heard this mountain resort with cool and fresh air. Occupied with choices of hotels,  indoor and outdoor theme parks, karaoke, bowling alley and shopping malls, we have lots of things to experience. Located on top of the 1700m above sea level, located on the border of Pahang and Selangor states, it takes only 45 minutes drive from capital city of Kuala Lumpur. You can also taking a bus from Hentian Pekeliling, Hentian Putra or Jalan Duta at KL.




I traveled up there with my family and arrived around 9.30am.We parked our MPV at Gohtong Jaya and took cable car to the top of the Genting resort. Normal activity there is letting your children play at Outdoor Theme park till they tired. Lot's of play and ride you and your children can enjoy like roller coaster, spider ride, space shot, boating into dinosaur era, bump boat or car, kart car and lot's more. You can occupy the whole day at outdoor theme park alone.The ticket is RM45 for adult and RM22 for children.

iSlaNd oF seReNitY - sEa, SuN aNd rElaXinG (pArT 2)


Either relaxing on the beach,  hotel's swimming pool or you can go around the island. There are a lot of places to visit at Pangkor Island. We took the opportunity to visit the seafood Satay factory, craft shops, old Dutch fort and night market.



Accommodation (hotel and apartment) at affordable price flourish around the island. You can search through internet or just walk-in and you might find the good and cheap one even during weekend. To travel around the island, you can rent a car (normal sedan RM80 per day) or a motorcycle at RM20 per day.

This island also famous with dried sea food (dried and salted  anchovy, squid, fish, etc) but from our observation the price is quite expensive. You can get cheaper at main land, i.e. Lumut town.

iSlaNd oF seReNitY - sEa, SuN aNd rElaXinG (pArT 1)

Our Vacation : 11th  - 12th of June, 2011
Location : Pangkor Island, Malaysia
Rating : 3 1/2*

Let's get break...to an island where sea, sun and fresh-air relaxing our mind! Our vacation this time was to a tiny island located at west peninsula of  Malaysia. It takes just 4 hours traveling by car from the capital city Kuala Lumpur, you will heading to Lumut, Perak before taking a ferry to the island.


Suitable for low budget holiday, you will find value-for-money stay over there. The "must join" activity here is snorkeling. We have rented a boat that can occupy 8 people which brought us to a crystal clear snorkeling spot. The rental was RM125 for 2 ways and RM10 for snorkeling gear per head.

Tips:
You can rent a boat at many counters near beach that  provide the services. There also banana boating costing you RM35 per head.  You are advise to go at the low tide time so that you can snorkeling in more wide area. Please ask the boat operator the right time to go.


Don't worry, your kids and "makcik-makcik/ah so" can also try this activity as long as they can fit the life jacket. What's a nice experience looking at many kind of fish swimming around you..hundreds of them..angel fish, coral fish and many more..you name it!

iSlaNd oF goDs - PerFect GaTewAy! (part 2)


Tips:
While you are traveling around Bali, it is not advisable for you to self-drive. It's better to rent a car with local driver or tourist guide. Motorists there are rough drivers and no road regulation were taken seriously, however unexpectedly during our visit there were no road accident at all.

The other "must see" site is Tanah Lot.  It is a beautiful sight-seeing place whereby unique land and rock formations that being carved naturally by sea and wind since million years ago. Adding to spectacular view, we can enjoy amazing sunset while having our seafood dinner in any restaurant facing the sea.