Santubong Trip

Few weeks ago, we made a trip to Santubong. On the way to Santubong Resort, we stopped by entrance of Mount Santubong for hiking...

With my sister- in-law on the suspension bridge nearby a waterfall... We had been trying our best to bend our bodies but still unable to make the waterfall into view...

In our room... in fact, this was the third i was there. The room was clean and tidy with 2 queen sized beds. A very comfortable one with reasonable rate...

While everyone was running to the beach, we made our way up the slope at the back of the beach just to wait for the sunset but unfortunately it was not our day, the clouds obscured it...

While waiting for the sunset, we capture this... the slope was filled with this type of little flowers, what a nice scene..

Although we did not push ourselves up to the top of Mount Santubong, we conquered it from below!! Yes, from the foothill! :>

When we went back to the beach, sun had set, croud had deserted the beach (except for a couple busy posing for their wedding album). So, the beach were ours!! Pls: my bro enjoyed swimming at the far end.

Pandan Beach

About 20 minutes from Gunung Gading National Park, you'll reach one of the beautiful beach in Lundu--- Pandan Beach!!


From the hut by the seaside, a tranquil sea embracing quite a number of families....

The picturesque view of the beach....

Another end of the beach that's full of rocks...

The muscular sandman.... Haha...

Gunung Gading National Park

After my paediatrics exam last week, i spent a superb weekend in Gunung Gading National Park! Just in case you don't know where it is, it is at the South Borneo, a place called Lundu in Sarawak. Reached there early in the morning in our 'little Black', the name of our Savvy my sister-in law gave, we were fortunate enough to get a room as the rest of them were all fully booked!!

Corridor leading into our room... For your information, the room was only RM40 with 2 double-decker in it!! Surprising right? it's cheap. and at the far end, there were well-equipped kitchen and dining table for you. (In fact, we bought some fresh seafood in the town which was only about 10 minutes away and made our dinner here.)

Yes, this was our room, Room 2!!!

Posing with my sister-in law on the double-decker :>

We were lucky enough to find 2 full- bloomed Rafflesia, the world's largest flower though August is not the season for it (the blooming season is from November to January).

A closer look at it, for me, it looked like pizza! ;>

Its interior look....

From the superior posterolateral of it.... Its flower bud was just like a cabbage. And the blooming period for each flower is only 7 days...

Luckily to have seen this once in a blue moon flower, we climbed up the cliff!! To the right of me were 2 of the "cabbages" awaiting for blooming after their 9-month nurturing.

We ordered ourselves some crabs and other type of seafood in Lundu town for our lunch as it is a popular place for seafood :>

Genting Trip

A day before Wesak, we decided to have a one-day trip to Genting. Just before 7, we drove to a nearby McD drive-thru to buy our breakfast. Then, we parked our car at ktm station to start on our journey. When the commuter arrived, we jumped into a quiet cabin and gulped on our sausage McMuffin with egg and his cup of coffee (not mine as i would easily get bad palpitation by even a few sips of coffee). Although it is not allowed for food and drink, we could still finish everything in the cabin :)

Reaching KL Sentral about an hour later only were we told that 9am tickets were sold out, the earliest available was 10.45am. So, reluctantly, we bought the tickets and loitering arond, passing our time in McD by McFlurry Oreo and sundae.

As soon as we finished our ice-creams, it's time for bus. Maybe it's due to Sunday itself or perhaps the next day was public holiday, crowds heading to the highland were far too many to be imagined. Though we had our tickets, we still have to squeeze ourselves into the bus when it arrived. This puzzled me even until now. Anyway, we managed to get into our seats eventually.

Along the way, we passed by a number of great building and nice sceneries, one of which included Batu Cave!


















As the bus moved with time, there were
getting fewer and fewer manmade
building. What left to welcom us was hills and mountains.

By the time we reached the foot of the hill, it was almost noon. Seeing such a cute double decker snack shop, we snapped some photos before we rushed to que for skyway.






Alas, when we got to the skyway station, there was already a long long que lying ahead of us! After about one-and-a-half-hour of queing only we reached our destination!

We were both exhausted and hungry. So, we hurried into Marrybrown to settle our lunch before we move on.


After the meal, we were energitic again. But we didn't play any of the outdoor games in the theme park because i dare not to try any of them. I think I have PTSD after playing roller coaster in Times Square. ;P So, we spent quite some time indoor including archery, snow world and the great satisfactory was winning a big bunny, pipe etc from throwing balls and rings!

To avoid another long que, we went down earlier. By 5.35pm, we were already in the skyway again.

Before going down for bus, we stopped by Skyway Sidewalk Cafe with our bunny to take our dinner.