Mabul Island, Sabah

Last month I went to Mabul Island which is located in Sabah. It was my first time to Borneo and it has been so long since I snorkeled last. I was so excited!

This trip was led by my friend. He did the budget and we just paid to him lump sum. Thanks to him!

When I reached at the jetty in Semporna, I was worried that I might get sea sick because the journey by boat would take about 45 minutes. But luckily I was in the speed boat. I realize that I won't get sea sick in the speed boat but not in the usual big boat. It happened to me when I went to Tioman Island.

I was so surprise to see the sea at Mabul Island. Let me explain through some pictures and these pictures are not edited.

Ok, this is the water gypsies kid. They came to near the chalet and ask for coin and sweet. They love sweet so much! If you plan to go there, you might bring along some sweets :)

Peace of mind to look at this beautiful and peaceful scenery.

The local kids were enjoying the scenery.

How clear is the water? Even if you drop your coin, you would be able to get it back.

See the clear water? Ok they are water gypsies. They live at the sea.

Keith is enjoying the scenery, too.

The village.

The village, the view from our chalet.

See the sea?

Saw this while I was walking through the village :)

This is the path when we walked through the village. It leads to the sea.

Ok, that's me. LOL

See the pass we were wearing? It's because we were at the border of Sipadan. We were about to snorkel at Kapalai :)

Sunset.

Peaceful.

I seriously, miss this clear water!

We will come again for sure, next year! :)

Sad but we have to go back :(

Snorkeling time! I only have this picture where we were warming up in front of the chalet. I've asked from friends that got some of the pictures when we snorkel at 3 places but guess he is very busy now. I haven't gotten them :)

Sweet memory!

Ok, I'll write again. I promise :)

Segantang Garam, Sungai Petani

It has been a while since I fish on a chalet. If you read on my previous post here, I wrote about another chalet before that I went for many times either with my friends or family.

So, this one is new. The one that my colleagues found in the internet and also through friends.

I went there with my colleagues and altogether were 17 peoples (14th and 15th May 2011).

So here are the pictures:

Ok, now… here are the comments.

1. The surau was in our chalet which means any chalet nearby owned by the same owner could come to our chalet for praying. This is not good because we need privacy. We paid for the big chalet and people came in? Instead of privacy, it makes the chalet insecure as we brought many things including some valuable items.

2. People from outside who did not rent the chalet there could come in and without feeling guilty could fish at our chalet. We did not feel secure at all.

3. We didn’t get any fish. The owner kept telling me you could get so many type of fish here and there but we couldn’t even get any small one either! We kept getting starfish, instead.

4. Other people who rent at the smaller chalet nearby could come into our kitchen and cook their catch. This is ridiculous even more.

As conclusion, I won’t go to this chalet anymore and I guess I will stick to the previous one.

A day in Cameron Highlands

On 7th of July, it was public holiday in Penang. We decided to go to Cameron Highlands after a simple discussion after volley ball on 6th. Yes, it was a last minute plan.

I slept at 1am on 7th and woke up at 2.30am watching World Cup -- Holland vs Uruguay. A tough match I’d say. Right after the game at 5am, I ran to bed and caught some sleep and woke up again at 6.30am. Got ready and Keith fetched me around 7am. Reached at Zaidi’s house (Jelutong) around 7.15am and we moved with Zaidi’s car to Zaki’s house at Seberang Jaya.

We drove straight to Simpang Pulai to meet Linda there as she drove from Ipoh (she was on leave for a week to take care of her sister who just delivered baby). All of us didn’t eat anything for breakfast yet and decided to eat somewhere around there to save time.

We laughed at the name… yeah, our director’s name!

Nasi lemak… the sambal was too salty

My wrong choice, milky drink which was not a good idea when you’re going to use winding road!

After we finished eating, we drove straight to Cameron Highlands while enjoying the scenery. So, warning to you if you going to drive through the winding roads, please, please, please do not drink any milky drinks!

Around 1 hour drive, we reached there. We went straight to the groceries place to look what could we buy…

It’s a good idea to sell something like this at the cold place! :)

The super delicious fried mushroom!

After we did some groceries shopping, we decided to eat some strawberry ice cream :) So, we found a shop which was not far away from the groceries place.

  Look at this!!!

Hahaha yummy!

After the ice cream session, Linda wanted us to see the tea farm view which I never been before. I went to Bharat Tea farm a few times but not Boh Tea Farm. The road to the farm was pretty far and the road was narrow. Only one car can go through at one time and at each corner you must use honk for your safety. Warning: The road is winding!

Amazingly, there was a school there!

Oh, when we were at Boh Tea Farm it was raining. Then, the rain got heavy and no more pictures taken. We went again to the groceries shopping place and bought more stuff before going back.

On the way back, we saw a waterfall just beside the road. Hehehehe… so I decided to snap a picture there! Hey, it was freezing!!!

We continued our journey home right after that. It was such a great experience spending a day at Cameron Highlands. I went there a few times but never spend only a day there. After all, nothing much you can do there but seriously it can kill the stress even for one day :)

Thank you Lim Guan Eng for the public holiday…