Showing posts with label trips. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trips. Show all posts

Friday, May 20, 2011

m3lv's Broga Adventure!

Last month, m3lv went to Broga Hill with the beloved, the sis & buddy! Broga Hill is quite a famous spot for sunrise. I knew about this few years back and would always want to make a visit and finally, I did it!

At the peak of Broga : 6.30a.m.

You need to reach there latest by 6.00a.m. If you want to see the sunrise. Unless you gonna run all the way up perhaps 6.30am latest? Lol.

Going up ain't difficult except for the last part where you are about to reach the peak because its really STEEP! If it rains the previous night, then I'll suggest you to reschedule your trip again.

There's path along the way, and do bring your torchlights as well! There's no lamp post all through out your journey to the peak but there are some people which sells torch light right before you start your journey up the hill. Lol!


Broga at 7.00am

If you want to take a nice moment of the sunrise, first thing you gotta do is to find a perfect spot for yourself! The sunrised behind the hills, so don't settle down yourself just watching the city view.

Sunrise @ Broga

Watching the sunrise is amazing! But a lot of my friends which have been there told me that they don't manage to see it though. So I think, depends on your luck or just check the weather forecast. Lol!

So, the four of us chill, relax, take some pictures and more pictures!

Crowds at Broga

Rock - Paper - Scissors?

Lonely Tree

My "photo shooting session"

Rocky's "photo shooting session"

A shoe tree? lol

Not a bad hiking trip :) Do go If you're free! And do remember to bring your torchlights & camera!

YEAH!




Friday, May 14, 2010

Not So Penang Trip

The beloved asked me to blog about our Penang trip. But I just don't feel like blogging about it. I did went to Penang but the pictures taken don't look like we're in Penang.

The trip was about 2 weeks back. The 5 of us which went to Ipoh last year, this year around we went Penang.

The gang which went Ipoh last year

Alright. Just some summary from our Penang trip. 

We stop by Ipoh for brunch at the famous Foh San Dim Sum, man that restaurant is huge! Its been some time since I went there and the last time I went, It was still at the old building located nearby the Ipoh's trademark "Chicken + Bean Sprout" Restaurant.



Some of the Dim Sum that we ordered

The size of the tart, the "har gao, siew mai & etc" is bigger than the Dim Sum shop in KL >< And the price is cheaper too!! Though it looks like we ordered just a few, but we can't finish it either. The portion is too much for us!!Lol!!




We reach Penang about noon. You know what, the main reason m3lv don't feel like blogging about this trip is because 80% out of the total pictures of the trip is.....

The 3 of them == This was in the car

And then in the room == There's more!! I'm just lazy to upload ><

After few hours drive from KL all the way to Penang, relaxing and chilling out in our apartment is a must!! And our way of chilling was

A few games of mahjong to stimulate our mind ><

If you're in Penang, you never wanna miss out the famous fried oyster!!



And the infamous Ikan Bakar?


The Ikan Bakar that m3lv & the beloved had in Cherating was better though ><

There were lots of MUST visit place in Penang and one of them is

The Gurney Drive

This place has never change. I think every night, there will be locals + tourist sitting there wasting their time chilling by the sea. 

When you're in Gurney Drive, Its a must to whack the "tong sui" there

Bobo Cha Cha

m3lv had this Bobo Cha Cha. Damn that is nice!! Just loves the sago alot!!

The following day, is our temple visiting day. We visit almost all the famous temple in Penang. Such as...

Sleeping Buddha 


The entrance to the temple


The Burmese Temple

In the temple, there's a tree with lots of money hanging and most of it are RM1 note, guess that's the donation from the generous people. Well, we wanted to be generous too!! Hence...

We donate Albert's Gold Card =) So generous aren't we? ;)

The weather was so intense in Penang that m3lv & the beloved decided to get ourselves ICE CREAM!!

Look at her expression!! She loves it!! =D

And then, we drove all the way to the Snake Temple. During our journey there...


again...


and again....


They're trying to invent some new style I guess =="

Anyway, when we reached the Snake Temple, It was raining ==



So we decided to go to the Queensbay Mall!!

Nothing special bout the mall. But there are some nice spots so snap pictures outside the mall!



Penang Bridge

The 3 stooges again. This time showing their butt.

When the rain finally stop. We went back to the snake temple.




Yea, there are lots of snakes!!


Viper!

All the snakes in the temple are of the same species. The viper. Its poisonous but I guess they won't sting you If you don't disturb them. They were sleeping when we went there. The snakes did not move at all == Or may be its a toy that look very real?? No idea.

And our last stop was the famous Kek Lok Si Temple.


The temple is really huge!!





The temple is actually build on a hill. You can actually see the whole Penang Island. Erm..almost whole of Penang...





The pagoda is really high!! We did not climb up though.


The Biggest "Kuan Yin" statue I've ever seen!

That's Mei Yoke, praying to pass all her subjects so that she can graduate ><

After a long day, after done visiting all the temples. We went back to our apartment to relax and chill by..


Playing the mahjong that I bought. Its a mini mahjong actually

See how MINI!! And look at my tiles!! Muahahaha!!

On the 3rd day, we took the ferry to the mainland.


A view from the ferry


And this is our only group pic >< Gosh!!

And while on our way back to KL...


again.........oh my....girls~

Ok~Thats all~BYE!!

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

2nd Trip of The Year!!


Last weekend, m3lv went for another trip with the schoolmates + the beloved again! This time, we went to Cameron Highlands!!


Strawberries 

m3lv went back to Ipoh on late Friday night because I went to the Nokia "Comes With Music" concert ( Will be updating that for the next blogpost ).

We got the coupon to get the X6 but did we manage to get it?

So the following day, m3lv wake up early, bring grandma, the beloved & the cousin for breakfast. After breakfast, bring grandma to the clinic & to Menglembu to get her medicines then back to her house. That is the reason for the delay guys!! I've been a good grandson for my grandma, so it is worth the delay right? =)

On our way up using the Simpang Pulai road

The journey up hill is quite fast using the Simpang Pulai road. It took us about 45 minutes till we reached our 1st pit stop, The Greenview Garden. Its like the "Preview of Cameron Highland"~Lolx!


Took some pictures over there!! 

My 1st Strawberry shot!! ^^
Water shot in the garden
We can see this everywhere in the garden == Especially the strawberry area
A shot with the beloved

Then, we move to our second pit stop, the famous BOH Tea Plantation

 BOH!!

The scenery is awesome!! I've been here once but that was 6 or 7 years back & I could hardly recall anything back then. 

The Boh "Yamcha" Station

We went to the "yamcha" station to grab ourselves fresh cup of BOH tea =) 
This tea that we ordered is called "Gunung CHANTIK" ==
m3lv's chicken pie
The beloved's choc cake
Vic's stonedscone

We got an awesome spot in the yamcha station, the view is breathtaking!!
1 of the view from our yamcha spot
A group shot!!

At night, we went to Brinchang to had steamboat for dinner!
Steamboat-ing

Its so cheap that you'll never get that price in KL!! The total bill with 3 bottles of beer only cost RM156!! So cheap can!!

they've gone cuckoo over the price i guess ><
myke with his duckie~look at Casey's expression~lol!!
yinyin & vic
m3lv & the beloved

After our dinner, we went back to chill & relax. We had our mahjong session, and the ladies which don't play mahjong, they watched Paranormal Activity!
mahjong + chips + dice

The following day~we went to the Vintage Cafe for breakfast
They serve Western & Chinese cuisine + they're a pork free restaurant!
Simple American Breakfast

Food is nice, the price is slightly high. A nice place for breakfast, lunch or dinner!! Highly recommended!!

Our next stop, we went to the strawberry farm to do some strawberry cutting!! Yes, cut because they provide us with scissors to cut the strawberry!! lol!!
The beloved & strawberry
L-R: Bernard, Weihoe, Mabel, The beloved
Bernard got the most strawberries!!
They're packing the strawberry
They even have grapes in Cameron Highland now. I wonder will they have a grape plucking farm? Fresh grapes are sour though. m3lv & Vic ate 1 == the taste of the grape is strong!! But its sour at the same time!!

Then we headed to a market to get some vege. We saw some funny looking "lobak"
Myke with the funny looking lobak

After spending money in the market, we went to the Rose Valley. So many flowers over there, m3lv don't know what type of flowers there are and all I do is SNAP, SNAP & SNAP ==
The bee collecting nectar
I think this is called the Bell Plant
The dangling plant ><
A group shot of them in a lookalike tree hut
The beloved & Mabel in a cute swing
And a group shot of us!!

So that's all for the Cameron trip. Its a nice trip!! m3lv loves it!! Where are we going next guys? Hahahaha~2 trips in a month!! Awesome!!! A good start for a the year!!