My Long Unexpected Journey ...

What I did last CNY holiday?

Planned for a 'sempoi' camping trip at Taman Negara, Kuala Tahan, Pahang. Start our journey from Klang at 10 am. Reached Jengka at 2 pm. Pickup another 2 team members and proceed to Kuala Tahan. Excited. Booked our accomodation here

However ... the excitement dies. Its a lousy resthouse. But you did expected that for RM90/night. The thing was that we had to fork out another RM100/person to go for picnic and canopy walk!! We felf cheated!!! Soooo cheated! What we do? We left the place after just 2 hours check-in and burn RM270 just like that!

So we drive and drive back to Jerantut Town. We sat for 1 hour to come out with backup plan. Spent another 30mins at the Cyber Cafe and finally decided to go for Kota Bharu! Crazyyyy!!!!

Since it's my first time driving to east coast, the other team member not really confident to push me for night driving so we proceed to Kuala Lipis and find a shelter at a very good friend's of one of our team member. The ladies had been given the privillege to have the aircond room. Best!

So the next day we start driving and driving and driving and driving for the endless 5 hours to Kota Bharu. Cracked our head to find a decent makan place but failed. We end up makan at Pasar Siti Khadijah which is (no offences to Kelantanese) soooo not clean. The food providers were so rude as if our money is cheap! Out of frustration, after makan (yang terpaksa) we checked in at Dani Hotel. Its a cheap but comfortable motel. Clean enough to sleep and pray. Went out that night to Wakaf Che Yeh. Again... frustrated. It's no more than a night market but selling 70% siamese products and 30% overpriced local textiles. Out of frustration, we again cracked our head to find makan place. Went to Pantai Cahaya Bulan. Only 1 restaurant really clean and decent but sadly we have to wait for at least 1.5 hours for our food if we decide to eat there. Can't wait that long of course so just choose other lousy stall and struggled to indulge the food and balek to hotel.

Next day, after lousy breakfast, we went back to Pasar Siti Khadijah to buy beras nasi dagang and other weird food (jala mas, ladu, etak2 etc). Then proceed to Bazar Buluh Kubu for kaftans and batek. Bought some for my staff and friend. We are so relieved to left the city by 11 am.

I am not going to Kota Bharu ever again! Never! Ever! Again!

To be continued ....