Travelogue: Terengganu – Day 6

15 September 2016

So, we already on our last day here in Terengganu. We woke up early and went to Batu Burok Beach to find a breakfast there. After keeping our tummy full, we took our own sweet time strolling the beach, taking pictures and be grateful to Allah S.W.T. for this beautiful view in front of us.

About an hour later, we already on our way to Masjid Kristal for our last activity, taking a cruise around TTI’s river. Actually to take the cruise, you need to go to a building not far from Masjid Kristal. It’s not located exactly at Masjid Kristal. Lucky we realize this earlier, or else we would missed the first cruise. We have to take the earliest trip since we had just few hours before our flight back to KL.

The cruise

One before going on the cruise

The trip took around an hour. There will be a tour guide on board and he will explained briefly about the things we saw around such as a small island, the boats, the jetty and all. We also got a chance to take a whole picture of Masjid Kristal as closer as we can from inside the cruise. Masjid Kristal looks so beautiful.

Crystal Mosque; view from the cruise

Finished with the tour, we stopped by at the souvenir and quickly bought some souvenir before going to the car and off to the airport.

Ticket price; for references

At the airport, my mom’s and dad’s friends was already there to send us off. It’s a working day and yet, they freed some of their time to meet us there. I’m both grateful and happy. We spent every last minutes together with both friends before we finally went inside the departure hall. And that, finally marks the end of our trip to Terengganu.

Goodbye Terengganu!

This trip also marks the completion of my trip to all states in Malaysia.

Alhamdulillah for the rezqi :)

p/s: My grammar are so so bad, I know. I mixed present tense with past tense with past present tense, but I’m glad to finally finished writing this Terengganu journal, after one and a half year since the trip ended. What?! Hahaha.

p/s: I almost give up writing this journal in English because I think that I didn’t express my feeling and emotion well and deeply from heart. But I also think that this is the least thing I can do to makes my English better, which is to keep using English even though it’s a broken one.

Travelogue: Terengganu – Day 5

14 September 2016

We woke up early and check-out from the room earlier than the suppose check-out time since we are going back to Kuala Terengganu. Before that, we stopped by at my friend’s house to take our belonging which we left behind yesterday. We spent another hour talking and bonding between the two families since it’s not easy for us to meet unless we’re going to each other’s place.

Arrived at Kuala Terengganu, we made another quick trip to laundry before heading to our homestay to check in. Then, we went out to Pasar Payang and PakSu Keropok Lekor to buy some keropok ikan and keropok lekor here. At PakSu’s, we stopped by to eat freshly fried original keropok lekor and cheese keropok lekor. It’s seriously delicious, I love it! We love it!

We went to Masjid Kristal next to perform Maghrib prayer before going to Batu Burok Beach to eat dinner. I tried Prawn Char Kuey Tiaw, the famous Ikan Celup Tepung (ICT) and Sotong Goreng Tepung. Not bad, but I think the taste is almost similar to the common fried fish. Well, that’s my opinion.

Cheezy Keropok Lekor

Ikan Celup Tepong and Sotong Celup Tepong

We ended our day for the day with a drink from CoolBlog.

Travelogue: Bukit Gambang, Pahang – Day 4

13 September 2016

We woke up early today since we are going to Bukit Gambang, yay! A 2D 1N trip to Bukit Gambang is one of the initial plan that we have. We already booked everything actually. But, since we are changing our plan to Terengganu, we thought that we didn’t have enough time to cover this place. So except for the entrance tickets which we’ve already bought, we canceled our booking for one of the family room there. It was a day before Eid-Adha that we decided to just go having fun at Bukit Gambang. Last minute booking for a room, the price has gone higher. Sigh. But never mind that, as long as we can enjoy ourselves.

After having a breakfast with my friend’s family, we started our journey to Bukit Gambang. The journey took around 2 hours 30 minutes from Dungun. We reached there around 11, and we went straight to the waterpark. After confirming our entrance tickets, we went inside and put our stuffs inside the locker room before starts playing in the water. If I’m not mistaken, we have to reload a card to be used to buy foods/drinks, to rent a pelampung, to rent a locker and so on. All transaction will be done using the card. And before you go out from the waterpark, you can claimed your unused money at the counter.

Hello, Bukit Gambang!

In front of the waterpark

The waterpark is not as big as Sunway Lagoon, and there are not so many places inside the waterpark where you can play sliding and all with the pelampung, but it is still enjoyable. There are not so many people during our time there, so we got to play at each sliding places for a several time. What makes it more memorable was, my parents too, played the sliding together with us. The kids are having fun, so do the parents.

4 hours playing in the waterpark, we started to get tired. So, we wrapped up things at the waterpark, bought some souvenirs at the souvenir’s shop near the entrance and headed to the hotel to check in. Settled with check-in procedure, we went to our room and rest for a while. My skin got burnt a lot. The worst part was, I didn’t used any sunblock beforehand. Gotta take some time for my skin to fully recover from this burn.

Next, we headed to Safari Tour but before that! We went to the nearest restaurant to fill in our hungry tummy and re-energized. After bought the tickets to Safari Tour, we went inside hurriedly since we are already late for the tour. We almost missed the bus which will take us for the animal tour. After half begging the staffs, they allowed us to rode the very last bus for the tour that day. Feeling happy and grateful, we rode the bus to the next station where we will change to a special safety bus to finally take us to the animal tour.

At the station, we need to queue and wait for the bus to come. While waiting, my youngest sister took her chance to try riding a camel. The fee is RM10 for one round. About half an hour later, it’s our turn to ride the bus and finally starts touring these animal places. It took us a little over an hour to complete the tour.

In front of Safari Park

The King

Anyeong, Jong Kook!

It's a tram actually

After finished with safari tour, we come back to the place where we took our first bus. We’ll go watch an awesome performance next, inside the hall. While waiting for the performance to start, we grabbed a quick bite and went to feed the elephant. We met Linda Rafar there, and my mom and youngest sister doesn’t let go the chance to take a picture with her. We then went straight to the hall since the performance was about to start.

Elephant's feeding

The performance was indeed the best. It’s making us laughing all the way, the actors was amazing, and the performance was lit. Everything was just so good. We left the hall with a happy heart. Since it’s already night and we drained ourselves the whole day, we decided to go back to our room and rest. We’ll have another hectic day tomorrow.

Travelogue: Terengganu – Day 3

12 September 2016

Happy Eid-Adha!

We woke up early today. My dad and my brother went to the mosque to perform Eid-Adha prayer, while the girls are preparing things at home. We moved out again today, later on the afternoon to go to Dungun, to my friend’s house.

After my dad and my brother done performing Eid-Adha prayer, they picked us at home and we went straight to my dad’s friend’s house for breakfast and for the next activity, qurban. It’s was my first time seeing qurban live in front of my two eyes, so I was quite excited. 4 cows were down for qurban. This event were so meaningful for me. I saw the struggle of the cows to escape from the rope that tied them up. I saw some cows are really looking sad as if they know they were about to leave the world. I saw how close these people are, gathered together at the morning of Eid Adha, smiling and chatting, sharing foods and all. Actually, we have all these scenario at my hometown. But I never really get to experience it myself except for eating foods together. I have never went to see with my own eyes how ibadah qurban was performed.

I tried to add a video of the qurban, but it seems there's an error since the video is over 100 MB, so I added a photo of myself instead ;)

About half an hour later, we excused ourselves as we have to go to Dungun. The journey is a little bit over one hour. We dropped by the laundry before drove to my friend’s house. This friend is someone I know during my Master’s Degree. We are quite close and regularly keep in touch, so when she know that I’m coming over to Terengganu, she invited us to stay at her home. At first, I was a bit reluctant since I’m not going there alone, but with my family. But, she and her family insisted us to stay overnight, and after discussing about it with my family, we decided to accept the offer. It’s one of the way to bond the two family, so why not?

Later that evening, we went to Teluk Gadung, a beach located in front of UITM Dungun, if I’m not mistaken. These students are really lucky to have a beautiful beach right in front of their university. The beach are beautiful. We spend about an hour there strolling over the beach and chit-chatting. Well, it’s been a while since I met my friend, so there’s a lot to talk about.

One with Ika :)

That night, we are having a barbecue in front of the house with beefs they got after the qurban. I really love barbecue but never really got a chance to do it regularly. We talked, ate and stuffed our not-so-empty tummy to the fullest before going to bed. Having a full tummy right before you sleep is not so healthy hmmm but who cares? As long as we are happy :)