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Monday, April 27, 2009

Kuala gandah Elephant Sanctuary

Feed the elephants? Bathe the elephants? Where can you do this kind of activities? The answer is Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary. Since this is a sanctuary, the number of visitors per day is limited, which is 100 visitors per day. I immediately asked LeLe to call the sanctuary and do the reservation for 5 pax. You can get more info at their website http://www.myelephants.org/.

We are lucky that we managed to do the reservation for that Saturday trip, even though we only do the reservation on that week. We even managed to book 5 yellow stickers, which means we can feed, ride and bathe the elephants. For those with red stickers, they can only feed and ride the elephants.

So, that Saturday, 25.04.2009, we start our journey in one car with the 5 of us- Ijay, Jess, Lele, Sek and Luke. First stop, breakfast at Batu Caves, where they served these nice "Wan Tan Hor" and Fish Porridge. We didn't took any photo because we are busy satisfying our empty stomach, but actually we are shy to take the food photo. I think this link http://www.awhiffoflemongrass.com/?p=370,
is the restaurant that we went.

After the nice breakfast, we continued our journey to to Karak Highway towards Kuantan, before exiting Lanchang Toll Plaza. From the exit, it took around 8km to reach to the elephant sanctuary. We reached there at 1pm, and we registered ourselves at the Visitor Registration Office. Since we had do the reservation earlier, we were given the yellow stickers to stick on our shirt. We change to the suitable attire since we are supposed to bath with the elephants.

First activities, Video Documentary show at 1:30pm. After the video show, we gathered at the respective area to feed the elephants. There were lots of fruits such as papayas, bananas and watermelons, and to be able to hand feed them personally is just an unforgettable experience. Second activities was riding the elephant. This is the first time for me to ride an elephant, and the first time for us (Jessica and me) to ride an elephant together too. So, I rode with Jes, Sek with LeLe and Luke rode alone.

After that, it was time to bath with the elephants. All we need to do is climb to the elephant from the platform, and after a few walks, the elephant will purposely felled down to the river to make the riders wet. Unfortunetly, I have to become the photographer and took the photo of others. Luke, Lele, Sek and Jess all felled to the river and were in soakingly wet condition. You can also bathe the elephant while you are in the river. After cleaning ourselves up, we went to the office to make some donation. It was truly a nice experience for us to be with the largest land mammals on the universe.

From the sanctuary, we headed to the deer park,which was situated about 5km from the sanctuary. We paid RM5 each for the entrance fee. Inside, we fed the deer, and touch lots of animals such as snakes, quails, hedgehogs, ostrich, rabbits and the best of all, The Malayan Sun Bear. We enjoyed our time with the beast as we managed to be closed with him. We left the park about an hour later.

Since waterfall is my passion right now, we decided to stop by at Bentong and search for Chamang Waterfall. The Chamang Fall can be reached by taking the road from Bentong to Raub- http://waterfallsofmalaysia.com/25chamang.php.
It is about 10km from Bentong Town. This waterfall is not really good for swimming, except for some good spots at the ground, where the pool is located. However, the view is breathtaking, with the water keep flowing drastically. Me and Luke decided to swim in the cool water for a while.

After Chamang Waterfall, we took our dinner at Bentong Town. After seaching and driving in this area, we came across this shop selling "Wan Tan Mee". We give it a try, but the taste was so so only, just to fill our empty stomach. We did also try the "Tong Sui" and "Yu Cha Koi" at a hawker stall where we parked our car. Finally, after settling some monetary issue, we headed home with a full stomach and money-cant buy experiences, especially with the elephants and the bear.

Check Out The Map First

Exit at Lanchang

Directions To Kuala Gandah

Entrance

Sign The Insurance First

Wasiat, Incase The Elephant Fall On You

The Elephant Head

Yellow Sticker For All Activities

Babe Elephant

Time To Feed The Elephant

Elephant Mengamuk

Do Not Approach Elephant

Photo With Elephant

Elephant Riders!

Ride And Fall

Deerland

Feed The Deers

Group Photo With Deers

Malayan Sun Bear

Up, Close And Personal

Soya Bear Drink

Chamang Water Fall

Danger Area

So kewl!

Dinner At Bentong, and Sayonara!

Sunday, March 29, 2009

Earth Hour Result

Location: Bukit Rambai, Melaka

Manage to get the whole family support to switch off the lights for 1 hour.

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Earth Hour

Earth Hour is an annual international event created by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature/World Wildlife Fund), held on the last Saturday of March, that asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change.

Based on an idea successfully executed in Thailand in 2005, it was pioneered by WWF Australia and the Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, and achieved worldwide participation in 2008.

Earth Hour 2009 will be being taken to the next level, with the goal of 1 billion people switching off their lights as part of a global vote. Unlike any election in history, it is not about what country you’re from, but instead, what planet you’re from. VOTE EARTH is a global call to action for every individual, every business, and every community. A call to stand up and take control over the future of our planet. Over 74 countries and territories have pledged their support to VOTE EARTH during Earth Hour 2009, and this number is growing everyday.We all have a vote, and every single vote counts. Together we can take control of the future of our planet, for future generations.

VOTE EARTH by simply switching off your lights for one hour, and join the world for Earth Hour, Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.

Earth Hour in Malaysia is planned and run by WWF-Malaysia and its partners. They welcome all parties to participate in Earth Hour on the 28th of March 2009 by turning off your lights for one hour from 8.30pm-9.30pm.

Here are 10 different ways to spend Earth Hour and reduce your carbon footprint:

Attend a local Earth Hour event or organise your own by throwing an Earth Hour street party with your neighbours
Gather family & friends for a night picnic in your local park and look at the stars
Enjoy a family dinner by candlelight
Organise a treasure hunt in the dark
Take the dog for a night walk
Have a candle-lit bath
Sit in the dark and share stories
Organise a family night playing board games
Share a romantic night in with your loved one
Upload your ‘on the night’ photos and videos to flickr and YouTube respectively, and then add them to the Earth Hour flickr group and the global Earth Hour flickr group and the global YouTube Group.

Please support Earth Hour

Saturday, March 28, 8:30-9:30pm.

Switch Off The Lights!

Monday, February 23, 2009

Kuala Linggi Fort

Fort Supai or Fort Linggi is located at Kuala Linggi Melaka, a border area between state of Melaka and State of Negeri Sembilan.

When you arrived at Kuala Linggi, the old fort is situated on top of the hill near Kuala Linggi River Mouth. Build in 1757 after the war between the Dutch and Bugis Clan fighting for the tin mining.

Was at this area while taking the back road from Melaka to Port Dickson on Sunday, Feb 22.

We entered through the jetty and walked to the end to reach this fort.

Friday, January 30, 2009

2009 Chinese New Year Reunion

29.01.09- Primary School Friends Chinese New Year Reunion

23 years of knowing each other, some knew since Kindergardens.

Dinner

Location: Cheng, Melaka

Participants: Ijay, Jessica, Sek, Luke, Christina, Chin, Jane, LeLe and Vincent

Yam Cha
Location: Berts Restaurant, Tanjung Kling, Melaka
Participants: Ijay, Jessica, Sek, Luke, Christina, Chin, Jane, LeLe, Vincent, Heng and Teng.

Monday, January 12, 2009

Pisang Waterfall a.k.a. Banana Waterfall

Date: 10th Jan 2009

Day: Saturday

5 of us, 1 expert, 1 semipro and 3 trainees

Do you know that underneath the Karak Highway, there is a tunnel called “Twin Tunnel” that leads to a waterfall called Pisang Waterfall or Banana Waterfall. Without permission, but, special thanks to this site http://www.henrychiah-photography.com/2007/11/sungai-pisang/ for the direction to Pisang Waterfall.

The trail difficulty is easy and the hike will take approximately 2 hours to and back via river and jungle trails to reach the waterfall.

Getting There and Away:-

Two stage to the destination

Stage 1
Pump House

Follow staright and pass by Batu Caves to Sri Gombak, turn in Karak Highway and turn left to UIA Gombak before the Karak Tol. You will reach the first traffic light and turn left. You will passby a Gombak School. Turn right when you reach another traffic light. Go straight along Jalan Gombak (Batu 12, Gombak). You will see a Jungle Lodge Alang Sedayu signboard at your left. Follow the signboard. You will come to a narrow road which goes up to a pump station. Park your car on the side and walk toward a pump house.

Stage 2

Waterfall

Passing the water pump house, go up to a slope and follow the small path proceed to the river trail. This is Sungai Pisang. Crossing the river until to the opposite river bank. Follow the path until you see a big twin tunnels. Go throught the tunnel and you will found yourself in a another part of the wonderland. Follow the trail until you see a red mark showing to the way to the waterfall. Keep treking until you hear the water flushing. Here you found the waterfall.

So, based on these directions, we managed to reach the waterfall, eventhough it tooks us a while to find the tunnel. The most important thing of all, we managed to enjoy the nature and dip into a cool pool, besides taking lots of photos.

Start the journey before crossing the river