Gua Tempurung Exploration & Sungai Klah Hot Spring
Still in my dreamland, the alarm clock rang as early as 5:00am... It was a torture for me to wake up such early.
Crawling in the dark, found my car key. My car's engine broke the silence in this early hour. The highway was so smooth without many car around. Ops. Which one is HK's house? Second row? Make mistake again :( Yawning while waiting for the others.
'Yu Lai Shang Jiung'! See!My palm is just as big as my face. Haha... After the Mac-D breakfast, 5 of us are on our way to Gua Tempurung. The place I have had wanted to go since 2 years ago.
Finally we're there. Took a deep and long breath at country side to clean my polluted lung.
We wanted to take Tour 3 but it needed 8 pax to go for the tour. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5..... still miss 3 pax. How??? There are a group of CIMB's staf and 2 other groups who join Tour 4. Wait for other group to go for Tour 3? Or go for Tour 4 now? We decided to take the challenge - Tour 4 Grand Tour which took around 3.5 hours (RM 22 per pax).
There are a few high skill post like crocodile crawling in the water, rock sliding, hole tunneling, experience darkness and ladder climbing. It's really a good experience where you can have the chance to view the significance stalagmite and stalactite to form this awesome cave. According to the renjer, it took 100 years to form 1 inch high of stalagmite or stalactite if the water drop is fast or else it need 200-300 years per inch.
We were out under the sunny sun after 4 hours of exploration. Our look after the exploration.
We are so exhausted and hungry. We quickly cleaned ourselves up and departed to Ipoh (RM 1 for bath per pax). Yeah!!! Good food waiting ahead.
KS - the Ipoh boy became our tour guide. He introduced this famous food in Ipoh which is called 'Da Shu Xia' (Under Big Tree). We have 'lai fan' - long and a bit transparent rice noodles, special Ipoh 'Chee Cheong Fan' (rice noodle roll with mushroom source) and rojak (famous m'sian mix fruit with dark shrimp source).
After late lunch, we went to buy some sourvenir such as salted chicken, 'xiang bing', Ipoh famous white coffee and pamelo. Known as Ipoh boy but kept on bringing us 'yau fa yuen'!!! Turn here, no no no, turn there, no no no, it's here, no no, it's there..... faint.......
We left Ipoh at around 6pm. It took another 45 minutes to Sungkai where the Sungai Klah Hot Spring is located.
Eh, how come is RM10? The website stated RM9... KS said he had student card. That's great. Asked him to buy ticket. The receptionist told him no student price :( However, when he paid for the ticket, she returned RM15 to him. That mean it's just RM7 per pax. Lucky us :) (probably it's too late).
It's tea time + dinner time. We tried to boiled the egg with the hot spring water. We waited patiently for the egg to boil. Thinking of the salted chicken, my stomach started to make noice.
Once open the paper which packed the salted chicken, the chinese herb aroma catch my 'nose'. My slaver came out non stop. KS, Sam and Me wanted to ate the drum stick but only 2 drum stick available... After "janken" battle with them, I lost the delicious and juicy drum stick... crying... Not gentlemen at all!!!
We left Sungkai around 8pm and heading back to Subang. That 4 guys are just like gal chit chat for the whole journey back to Subang. It was a tiring and nice tour I have with them.
Gua Tempurung contact:
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Website : http://www.guatempurung.com/main.php
Email : enquiries@guatempurung.com
Operational Hours : 9am - 5pm
Sungai Klah Hot Spring contact:
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Address : Sungai Klah Hot Springs Park, 36000 Sungkai, Perak.
Operational Hours : 9am - 6pm (weekday), 9am-10pm (weekend)
Crawling in the dark, found my car key. My car's engine broke the silence in this early hour. The highway was so smooth without many car around. Ops. Which one is HK's house? Second row? Make mistake again :( Yawning while waiting for the others.
'Yu Lai Shang Jiung'! See!My palm is just as big as my face. Haha... After the Mac-D breakfast, 5 of us are on our way to Gua Tempurung. The place I have had wanted to go since 2 years ago.
We wanted to take Tour 3 but it needed 8 pax to go for the tour. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5..... still miss 3 pax. How??? There are a group of CIMB's staf and 2 other groups who join Tour 4. Wait for other group to go for Tour 3? Or go for Tour 4 now? We decided to take the challenge - Tour 4 Grand Tour which took around 3.5 hours (RM 22 per pax).
There are a few high skill post like crocodile crawling in the water, rock sliding, hole tunneling, experience darkness and ladder climbing. It's really a good experience where you can have the chance to view the significance stalagmite and stalactite to form this awesome cave. According to the renjer, it took 100 years to form 1 inch high of stalagmite or stalactite if the water drop is fast or else it need 200-300 years per inch.
We were out under the sunny sun after 4 hours of exploration. Our look after the exploration.
Here are 4 of our macho guys after the tour.
We are so exhausted and hungry. We quickly cleaned ourselves up and departed to Ipoh (RM 1 for bath per pax). Yeah!!! Good food waiting ahead.
KS - the Ipoh boy became our tour guide. He introduced this famous food in Ipoh which is called 'Da Shu Xia' (Under Big Tree). We have 'lai fan' - long and a bit transparent rice noodles, special Ipoh 'Chee Cheong Fan' (rice noodle roll with mushroom source) and rojak (famous m'sian mix fruit with dark shrimp source).
After late lunch, we went to buy some sourvenir such as salted chicken, 'xiang bing', Ipoh famous white coffee and pamelo. Known as Ipoh boy but kept on bringing us 'yau fa yuen'!!! Turn here, no no no, turn there, no no no, it's here, no no, it's there..... faint.......
We left Ipoh at around 6pm. It took another 45 minutes to Sungkai where the Sungai Klah Hot Spring is located.
Eh, how come is RM10? The website stated RM9... KS said he had student card. That's great. Asked him to buy ticket. The receptionist told him no student price :( However, when he paid for the ticket, she returned RM15 to him. That mean it's just RM7 per pax. Lucky us :) (probably it's too late).
It's tea time + dinner time. We tried to boiled the egg with the hot spring water. We waited patiently for the egg to boil. Thinking of the salted chicken, my stomach started to make noice.
We left Sungkai around 8pm and heading back to Subang. That 4 guys are just like gal chit chat for the whole journey back to Subang. It was a tiring and nice tour I have with them.
Gua Tempurung contact:
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Tel : +6012 592 8952 (Noorafeza), +6019-543 7192 (Abdul Manan), +6016-528 8340 (Norzaleha)
Fax : +605-318 8557Website : http://www.guatempurung.com/main.php
Email : enquiries@guatempurung.com
Operational Hours : 9am - 5pm
Sungai Klah Hot Spring contact:
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Tel : +605 438 8801 or +603 2697 9772
Website : http://www.malaysiavacationguide.com/hotsprings.htmlAddress : Sungai Klah Hot Springs Park, 36000 Sungkai, Perak.
Operational Hours : 9am - 6pm (weekday), 9am-10pm (weekend)
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