Mulu World Heritage – Day 1: Getting There
Mulu World Heritage – Day 1: Moonmilk Cave
Mulu World Heritage – Day 2: Penan Settlement
Mulu World Heritage – Day 2: Wind Cave
Mulu World Heritage – Day 2: Clear Water Cave

So today, let’s bring you all to the Lang & Deer Cave.

I believe most of you are quite family with the name of these caves, as its the most popular bat watching caves in Mulu.

This is stick insect. Watch it closely, it moves slowly.

Lang Caves and Deer Caves are just next to each other.  It tooks around 1 hour of walking distance from the park to reach the cave entrance.

The first cave that we went to was Lang Cave.

I would say that although Lang Cave is consider a small cave, but the rocks are quite amazing.

It’s amazing in a way.. you can see a “penis” inside the cave.

Really…  Have some wild imaginations =)

Ok that’s not the main attraction to the cave.  Lang cave is actually popular of its beautiful rock’s formation. Some say it looks like a human’s brain.  What do you say?

The founder of this cave is actually one of the cave explorer back in 70s. And today, our tour guide, Mr. Lang which the surname is the same as the cave , is the son of the founder of the cave. Our tour guide educate all of the tourist to love the nature and not to pollute the caves. He even take up any single rubbish as he seen on the way to the caves.

Next. We are going to Deer Cave.

Before entering the cave, the tour guide give us a quiz question.

What is the name of the deer with no eyes?

If you can’t get the answer, you are not allow to enter the cave. Har!

Deer Cave is known to be the longest cave passage in the world.

But to me, this is also the darkest cave and the smelliest cave in the world!  It’s the home for millions of BATs lives in this cave, we get the chance to access to free natural perfume of the Bat’s shit! So friendly reminder, get a bottle of “Minyak Kapak” before you enter the cave. =)

And of course, the landmark of Mulu. Rock formation and turns to Abraham Lincoln’s face. Awesome right?

Hey, it took me some time to actually realize of the shape. So enjoy the picture despite of standing there and smelling the natural perfumes.

Rocks in Deer Cave

Sometimes I think those founder of the caves are brilliant. You know what do they name these thing ? It is call the shower head. Har!

You will get more version of story if you closely listen to what the tour guide says.

We spent almost an hour plus inside this cave, there’a a lot of things to watch, a lot of stairs to climb, and of course I can’t take too much pictures. Why? I’ve to watch out for the bat’s shit first of all. Second, it’s too dark, my little compact camera can’t do much work here.  ;)

We were back at the Bat Observatory Deck around 5pm. Sky is getting dark, and it’s raining cats and dog.

As it was Christmas Eve, all the tour guide needs to leave earlier for the celebrations. Hence, we were told to walk back to the hostel on our own. We were not alone, because hundreds of tourist will be here sitting and waiting for bats to come out.

While waiting, let’s have the candid cam!

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5.30pm..

It seems like the bats are not coming out today.  It’s better we depart early to the park. The sky is getting darker as the rain getting heavier and yet its an hour walk back to the park.

To overcome my sadness and regretfulness, I pamper myself by searching the videos from Youtube. Haha, here you go, to conclude this post, I present you the Bat’s from Deer Cave!
Hope you enjoy this post as its almost complete my Mulu travelogue.

Oh ya, before that, the answer for the quiz above is, “No Idea“. =) Have Fun!

Mulu World Heritage – Day 1: Getting There
Mulu World Heritage – Day 1: Moonmilk Cave
Mulu World Heritage – Day 2: Penan Settlement

Getting on the track, here we continue the boat ride from the Penan Settlement to the Cave of the Winds.

For the morning tour, we were being arranged for the Clear Water Cave & Wind Cave. Both of this cave are located next to each other which are categorised under the same clear water system.

Turn left, to clear water cave and take right to Wind Cave.

Entrance at the Wind Cave

Take a picture here for remembrance, to let my grand children know that the ah gong and ah ma ever “WALK” to wind cave.

At this standing point,  was actually where the winds come from. In fact, it’s just a small cool breeze but the cave was name after these.

Inside the cave, you get to see all kinds of rock formation, I’m poor in my geography so sorry I can’t give a  comprehensive explanations on it . :p

Let my pictures tell you the whole story of stalagmite and stalactites, how they meet each other. One from top, One from bottom.

We walked around the stair case, and the tour guide will explain to us on the formation of stalagmite and stalactites.

These are the “huge” one. It almost meet each other. If it’s meet, it forms columns.

Our tour guide for the morning session, Sandra, was a local lady who can speak some simple English.

You can only enter the park with their assigned tour guide.

Inside the cave, we are not suppose to make too much sound or shouting at each others name. Like I told you before, either you believe it or not, the spirit of the ancestors were all there. Somehow the facilities at Mulu National Park are indeed very organized. There are spotlights along the path, handles on stair case and some information board for the tourist to understand more about the caves.

I took too much pictures here, and my battery went exhausted. Coming up next,  Clear Water Cave!

First of all, sorry for the delays of the my Mulu Travelogue. In fact, the travelogue does need to have enough “wind” in order to write a long winded post. So by looking back at the previous post on top, I’ve covered how to get there and the most adventure ever , Moonmilk Cave.

Coming up this post, I’ll be covering the Penan Settlement in Mulu.

So what is Penan? Basically, they are the nomadic aboriginal people who lives in Sarawak. To know it more, Mr. Wiki tells you more. To be simple, before you and I landed in Sarawak, they’ve already exist. Correct me if I’m wrong.

On Day 2, the tour begins at 9am. We were asked to gathered at the Jetty.

Somehow, due to the adventures we’ve taken yesterday, we lodge a complain at the information counter to ensure there’s no other group of tourist who encounter the same problem like us. Also, we have to tripple comfirm that for the entire tour, there’s gonna be a “tour guide” accompany since we’ve paid that in our package.

Are you ready? Yup, Alex and I were ready to conquer the World Heritage!

Here you go, the total of 12 of us. Wheeee! Everyone looks so energetic ya?

Safety first.
So we gathered at Jetty, the tour guide will guide us which boat to take, and put on the life jacket.

6 person in a boat ! Everyone seems so happy.. some of them were taking this kind of long boat for the very first time.

Alex and I getting on boat. We’re going for a Football fight! Hehe.. Germany vs Brazil.

And definitely you can see the excitement on my face.
I tried touching the water and splash in on my face, its so cold and fresh! No pollution eh? Sure?

This is the river that we are crossing.
It takes around 10 minutes for us to reach the Penan Settlement.

Some of the area that we were crossing were quite shallow so the boat driver will try to avoid some rocks. They are skillful enough to protect our safety.

Happy. Happy. Happy.

Why was I so happy at that time? Maybe its due to I didn’t had a holiday or short break for a long time. So taking this great opportunity, back to the mother nature, I think it does helps to regulate my mood and hormones. :p

The first long boat arrive earlier than us, and waving to our arrival. Hehehe….

The penan settlement will be the 1st stop for every tourist and I think it’s worth for you to get closer with them. You will get to know more their histories, way of living and of course giving them a little support.

Leon & Alex.

The houses behind are belongs to the Penan’s. They live by the river, everything settle by the river.

Breathtaking views but that was their Long House which were burnt few months back.

The longhouse are the place where the Penan stay, which consist of few living quarters for each family and they have one common halls for everyone.  Too bad, it’s burnt and hopefully it will be built up soon.

So this is the Penan Folks who are mostly Christian here. Their common identical looks, the long ear’s tribe.

Meanwhile, this old lady is performing some kind of music by blowing a flute. To be exact, a bamboo flute.  But that’s not her main business, she’s actually selling handicraft.  By making the music, people would get attracted to her and visit her stalls. What a good marketing gimmick!

Every stall are selling almost the same thing, Handicraft.

Mostly made of beads or “manik” and thread into key chain or necklace.

So talking of support, you could just get some souvenirs from them and bring back home.  Still, try not to bargain a too hard, that’s their hard work and performance.

These key-chain will only cost you 3 for RM10.  If you are willing to pay more, they are even happy =) Com’n show them your support and don’t buy at the gift shops.

The tourism board did put on some information board about the Penan Settlement. So to know more about their true story, drop by here during your trip and tapao some souvenirs!

Destination : Moonmilk Walk
Duration : As advise 45 mins walk
Adventure :  1 (1-5 Ranking)

Yeah, we’ve recharge our energy, dress up, gear up and ready to explore the National Park. The other 5 members were yet to arrive, so we chosen to go for a “simple” walk somewhere around the park. As advice by the officer, we could take up the Moonmilk Walk that only takes 45 mins.

The above statement were true if you really listen to his advice, for taking a 45 mins WALK. No tour guide needed. Entrance FREE.

Yeah! 1st destination in MULU. Go go go!

This is the only signboard we could see along the path. The signboard stated, Moonmilk Cave not Walk.  We did not give it a damn , since the officer told us, its just a 45 mins walk!

Pass by the river bank.  Boat are the main transport for the Penan Residence.

Its really nice to walk in the jungle covering by all the giant tree, its not hot, and the pathways are well maintain.

Trees were huge and we get to see  different kind of plants.

Worms & Leaves

Fruits & Mushrooms

The ball kind of worm

Save our earth!

We really enjoy the jungle walk, until we realize we were actually the only group of people on the same pathway. There’s no one else heading the same direction.  There’s no signboard along the way, but since the officer told us it’s only a 45 mins walk, we just proceed to our destination.

Wait a minute. What is our destination. Moonmilk Cave or Walk actually?

But it’s already a 45 mins walk, where is the cave? where is the sign?

Looking at the time is still early, so we thought maybe its just a few more minutes to reach.

And we saw this.

Lots of steps… uncountable steps.. but we still going Up Up Up!

The 2 and only male members were exhausted as well. Not to mention the girls and the 50++ Aunty with us.

Thing seems went wrong. Initially we decide to have a rest and make a return.

It’s been such a long and tough way walk, more than 45 mins walk, and more than 400 steps of climbing. Leon and Yen insist not to give up, so they further up to the staircase while we waiting at the rest stop. They turned back and inform us that we are near to the cave! Since we did not one to break down the groups in the jungle, hence we follow them to the cave.

It’s almost 4pm. We finally saw this signboard.

Moonmilk Cave!

We were too happy! Finally we reached our destination. We keep scolding, why the signage were so poor, even the Moonmilk Cave sign were tear off.  Somehow we were still daring enough to self explore the half closed cave. Thinking back, it’s still a nightmare to me.

Moonmilk cave is consider very small. As what we learn from the guide the day after, the cave have been closed for tourist visit. We were the only adventurous group that make it to this far. Most of the infrastructure in the cave has been vandalized. Luckily we have prepared our torch light earlier, so still managed to see some rock formation.

We are the Survivor? Yes!

Hey.. look! The signboard is back to normal.

And I even took a picture to show my victory reaching Moonmilk Cave!

This is actually the other ends of the cave.

The  adventure begins HERE!

As we got out from the other end of the cave  and all of us thought that the direction would lead us back to the park office. Everyone were so happy, as we thought we found a short cut, we don’t need to go through all the previous hundreds of staircase.  The sky is getting dark at 4.30pm. Rains were dropping  at the same time. So we did not stop but just continue the path in the jungle.

The path seems tougher this time. The staircase were built by wood,  covered with moses. The steps were slippery and fragile. It really made us have to be extra precautions going down the steps.

5.15 pm.

We finally reached a lower ground, and saw the sign of river.

Wait! The sign of river is still flowing on the same direction as what we saw earlier while entering the park. It means, we aint taking a U turn back but instead we are going further in the the jungle.  Things are so wrong now. We don’t know where are we. We could only continue the journey.

Everyone get tense up and worrying.

5.30 pm.

Saw the sign of a cave. Reading from the signboard, it’s WINDCAVE!
This is not in our plan,  we are supposed to be here on Day 2 by boat. It means that we’ve walked far from what we are supposed to go. Everyone seems panicked. Why we ended up in Wind cave? As what we’ve been told, moonmilk walk is only 45 mins but we’ve spent 3 and half hour in the jungle.

Again, Leon and Yen who has been to Mulu once told us the last time they come to Wind Cave were by boat. We assume there’s no short cut back to Park Office, unless we are going back again through our previous route, going up the wooden stair case, passing through the Moonmilk Cave and going down another 400 steps to reach the Park Office.

WIND CAVE - Photo Credit to http://prince.org

We can’t do anything right now.  We only know its getting dark,  and we think of to call Park Office for HELP. The mobile phone coverage were weak, we did several attempts only we managed to rang the office.

“Sorry. There’s no more boat at this moment. “

This is the reply from the Park Office. They don’t care about our safety, and they advise us to walk back using the previous route where we got to here. We were really angry with their response. I believe if they are willing to help, they will manage to get us a boat.

5.45 PM

Without further delay, we left Wind Cave and take the return using the same path. This time, we did not stop for a rest or photo taking. The rain is getting heavier, and we start to worry our teammate might not be fit to walk back but we can’t think that much.

The 50 ++ years old aunty is still still tough. Although she says she might be slow, but infact she’s tougher than all of us!

7.15 Pm

We walked real fast this time. Non stop.  Some of the distance we even run. I tell myself, I need to be fast, because I want to buy the RM4 Coke. That will be my aim.

We made it!

Hahahaha, don’t worry, everything is alright , I’m still here blogging!
Well, the 1st thing was not buying the Coke, but we screw the security guard for being irresponsible. Since we registered at this National Park, they should have protect our security and they knew we have one elderly member in our group. We even complain that we made a rescue call, but no one seems to worry about us. Their reply is, “if really something happened, we will send our team over.” =.=!!!

Actually we were just throwing out our anger, but since everyone were safely arrive, back in 1 piece, we’re really tired to fight for the rights, but keep the energy for the next day!

The 5 other members who arrive in the afternoon were waiting for us eagerly at the hostel.

The morale of this trip. Better insist to get a tour guide if you are not familiar with the jungle. Anyway, it’s a unforgetable experience tho! I’m not recommending any of you to take up this cave, it’s really wasting time but hey, it’s adventurous!

Coming up next post, the legend of Wind Cave & Clear Water Cave.

If you ask Sarawakian, what’s the tourist attraction we have here, I think most of the people will answer you MULU and follow by Gua Niah. So what is MULU? Gunung Mulu National Park is one of the World Heritage Site, and that’s the world’s largest natural rock chamber – big enough to accommodate 40 Boeing 747 aircraft park side by side.

WAH… So proud to be Sarawakian right?

But then I tell you the truth, most of the Sarawakian has never been there! And the opposite, it’s mostly visited by tourist.

That is why, I tell myself, this is what I should do one day. So here I did it, with a bunch of friends to MULU on the Christmas Holiday. =)

Mulu World Heritage – Day 1: Getting There

How to GO?
The easiest way to reach Mulu is using aircraft, MASWING. You need to fly to Miri, Sarawak and transit to Mulu. We had booked the promotional fares, which is only RM172 for both ways.

The cute & comfy ATR that carry us from Miri to Mulu.

Arriving Mulu airport, it’s a very simple building. No aircond, and even the toilet were also limited.

Welcome to MULU =) Gunung Mulu National Park !

The whole airport sounds peaceful, no crowd, and just a few tourist.  Look at the manual baggage system, haha, classic right?!

Useful Tips: Things you must bring to MULU.

1. A lot of Mineral Water. Get 1 carton since you have free Baggage up to 20Kg using MAS.
Why: It’s because most of the resources there were expensive. Including drinks, which will cost you RM6 – 8 for 1 bottle. You will consume a lot of water depends on your activities.

2. A lot of FOOD.
Why:  Of course there’s limited choice, and the price for each meal will cost up to RM10. So its better you keep some canned food and instant noodles for backup.

3. Torch light & Raincoat
Why:  Easier for your jungle walk, and the rain comes anytime!

4. Repellent & Medicine
Why:  Too much different kind of flies and insects. Better be safe.

You will need to pay RM5 per ride to go National Park or to your hotel Royal Mulu Resort. Sorry, there’s no taxi but it’s all using local vehicles.  This is the only transport you could get in Mulu, pay it or take a 30 mins walk on the rocky road to the park.

Where to STAY?
1. If you are rich, you can stay at the Royal Mulu Resort.
2. If you are on budget, then stay at the National Park, which you don’t need to take a ride from hotel to the park.

This is the National Park, hmm, what happened to the K, eaten by the monkey!

The entrance to the park also the place you can wait for your transport.

Going through a bridge, and you will reach the GREEN tourist information counter.

As it is managed by Australian, so the office does looks like the parks in Australia too!

Pictorial as a guide for your trip in National Park.

We reached there before noon. Somehow, we need to register at the information counter and get the tour information from here. The officers will arrange you the suitable tour by using a map. By then, we will know the budget needed as well as boat fees.

This is what they arranged for us. We have a total of 12 people.

Day 1 : Moonmilk Cave
Day 2: Wind Cave & Deer Cave
Day 3: Paku Waterfall
Day 4: Going home
But this is also something that I will never gonna forget for my entire life! Stay tune…

We booked the “Longhouse” chalet type, with the name “Tongkat Ali” Wtf!

No aircond, but complete with towel, bedsheet, pillow and blanket. Sharing toilet.

The Cafeteria & Giftshop.
The only place we can find FOOD & DRINKS.

You have to take off your shoes to this canteen. No good… no good…

Canteen is surrounded by the green and river.  WARN* a lot of mosquitoes!

They have computer system for the very simple transaction, looks great but their service is super slow and face is super dark.  Ok, unless you are “Orang Putih” then you get special privileged.

Lunch Hour.Nasi Goreng RM10. No ingredients just fried with carrots and eggs…..

Check In Done.

Program List Done.

Lunch Done.

So better take a good rest before the afternoon program.

We did not start the main attraction on Day 1 as we need to wait the other 5 tour members to arrive in the afternoon flight. Therefore, we can only can some “simple” walk around the park.  WARN* it’s gonna be very adventurous on my next post. Stay Tune!

We were there for a short visit which lasted for 5 days. I did google the place before I went there, and I did expect it could be a small town just like Sibu or Miri. Driving from Kuala Lumpur to Temerloh takes about 2 and half hour, and we had our midnite supper at Bukit Tinggi.

Temerloh does have a very strategic location.
Its always a few hours drive, then you could reach to either Kuala Lumpur or Kuantan.

Probably because of the conveniences, it slow down their development. From what I could see, the biggest building available would be The Store Supermarket. Choices of Hotels are quite limited , maybe people would just come here for a day trip.
Although Temerloh is popular of Ikan Patin but maybe I was there during the Puasa Season, hence most of the time the stall was close. I did not have a chance to taste the IKAN PATIN!

Hence I could only try out their local chinese food, which is bowl licking too!

Personally, I love the green noodle. It is actually made of Cabbage.

While the yellowish one is made of Egg.
Taste good in soup or make it dry. I love the fishballs too..
Food prices in Temerloh is more or less then same compare to Miri.
A bowl of kolomee would cost around RM3 – 5 depends on the ingredients you ask.

This is the Chinese Restaurant where its located between Temerloh and Mentakab.  Good food! Good Food!

Hey, hey! Even Temerloh have OLD TOWN why don’t we have one in Miri?

However, I do enjoy with the good food and good people. In this peaceful town, everyone seems to know each other, regardless of races. I will definitely come back again and try out the Ikan Patin!

Everything could be better If only I did not injured my toes!!!

During the last Gawai Season,we visited to the capital of Sarawak, Kuching. We had road trip from Miri up to Kuching.  As in part of the plan, we will be heading to Gunung Gading National Park and it’s waterfall was the main attraction.

Back to Mother Nature.

It was raining cats and dogs at the beginning, the trails  were slippery. There were 11 of us holding the trail one by one hiking up to Gunung Gading. Along the way, someone would say “watch out” broken steps! Few moments later, someone will shout as a sign emergency break, eventually there’s someone falling down and get hurts!

We were just being briefed that there’s lots of steps, but never thought it will be such a tough journey. At that time I was only hoping, if I know it earlier, I won’t bring all the big equipments with me. In fact, the smaller the better.  Regrets No.1

Along the way in the jungle, there’s lot of unique species that we rarely seen. But due to low light condition, most of my pictures came out blurry. I hate to say that, even with a big Dslr if you don’t have the skill, the result came our are just as ordinary digital camera.  Regrets No.2

There’s actually 3 waterfall at Gunung Gading, but we can’t go further up, you should know why, we don’t have the sport men spirit, to fight till the end. The bags were too heavy, each bag weight at least 5kg to 10kg. The tiredness were worthwhile, that’s because the good things is always happen latter. We heard the crispy water sounds. Its from the waterfall!

We left our bags and belongings on the higher part, as we need to walk lower down to access to the waterfall. Someone must stay back at the top to watch over their belongings. We can’t bring our camera down, we worried it will be water damage! Regrets no.3

Photo credits: Robert Lau.
He did not join us in the water as he worry his fortune Dslr camera to get wet. The only thing he could do is stay far away and zoom with his 300mm telelens . His fortune camera cost him more than RM10k. So he better take good care of his belongings and miss out the happiest water moments with the others. Pity him.. someone must do the scarification. =)

William at the peak enjoying his water moments!

Alex was having waterspa! Gosh!

The scenery was great, but where’s my camera? No.. I can’t bring it here as its not waterproof camera. If I own the Sony TX5 waterproof camera, then I’m sure I will have lots of candid moments of us splashing each other in the water! If I have thought of having this camera for this trip, I bet it could solve up a lot of regrets and problems.

Each of us was overjoyed to see the waterfall, the environment was real good for a short retreat. Everything off and jump to the waterfall!  Can’t wait to get splashed by the waterfall. We were like Kampung boys and girls. Forget about all the doubts and let go all the stress.

All those funny moments could have taken with Sony TX5, it can capture a moving subject in a sequence of 10 continuous frames per second. Meaning that, all the fast action moments can be captured just like the moment we splashed water at each other! Oh, Eric, I will remember the moment you splashed the freezing cold water at me!

While trying to cross the stones, I sprained my right leg and it hurt my middle toe. In fact, it is very dangerous to hop around the big stones to reach the highest peak.  We have to be extra careful while playing at the waterfall. The big stones are slippery, and our feet couldn’t grab firm on it.  I soaked my toes in the cold water, but it doesn’t help much. The pain get worsen, and it turns black on my toe.

My swollen leg. Looks like old nanny’s leg.

The moment I lay on the rocks, I noticed the greens were really attractive. Too bad I don’t have a camera with me, even If I have, I don’t have a wide angle lens with me. With Sony TX5, I can take Panorama Photos. It could automatically join up a few photos into one and it even can recognize human faces and subjects!

I couldn’t move else where, can only sit still by the rocks and enjoying the water splash.

Sony TX5 could play a big roll especially for a frequent traveler like me. It has many many proof! Have you ever encounter of your camera getting blur due to cool temperature? Do you ever face problem when there’s dust in your lens? And worst is do you ever face problem if you drop your camera?

That is why I should have bring it to Gunung Gading. I don’t have to worry carrying a big back pack, and running out of breath. I still can capture whatever moments I had even my ugliest moment that I hurt my toes. Even if the camera drop into the water, it still can be use, and of course even if I accidentally drop and knock on the rocks, I bet is still can work pretty fine.

Of course as a blogger, I need a really durable camera to be with me on the go. Imagine, regardless of what condition I would still be able to capture down the moment. I could have shoot some nice photos in the jungle but due to low light condition the photos came out blur. I could be able to shoot nice photos with its Twillight mode.

Sometimes I really hate to bring out the big Dslr with me. It makes me looks so gigantic. A small compact camera would be nice to fit into my handbag.  Counting back, this could be my first crush with Sony camera. Previously I’ve heard of lots of positive feedback from my friends but  I’ve never give them a try. But ever since I heard of  Sony TX5 , I think I’ve fall in love with it. And hey, it does comes with 5 different colours. Which color do you think is suitable for me? A pink? or A black?

Sony TX5 is selling at RM1499. I think this price is very attractive with all the advantages and latest technology. Don’t you think so?

For me Photography is an art, there’s no right or wrong. Everyone can be a very good photographer.Go ahead with your own instincts and capture the best moment of yours in life.

P/s: Again and again, If only I have known of this camera earlier, I bet I won’t have hurt my toes. I won’t have bad mood and throwing tantrums at my hubby. I had the biggest war with Alex a day before my birthday. Holiday ruined, Mood Spoiled, Toes Pain. What a birthday gift to myself ! So now I should get myself a TX5 to pamper back myself!

We asked around for the most recommended one, as advised Restoran Highlands could be the popular among the locals. It is just located behind the busy street, not that obvious, but their business is consider very good. They serve traditional Charcoal Steamboat with the very long funnel to avoid big wind blow off the fire.

The shop was just a simple coffee shop style. They will asked you the portion you want, and just wait to be served.

We ordered for 2 person’s portion. First plate served with Bihun, Veges, Assorted Meat Balls & Eggs.

The second plates come with assorted seafood.

And the final plate comes with meat plates. These are the plates that served for steamboat.

All looks so fresh and delicious! Tender & Juicy!

Alright, both of us are very hungry. Can’t wait any longer for the things to cook. We finished up everything except the plates!

Let me show you the tall funnel. Very cool right? And look, the charcoal are burning inside.

We enjoyed the meal There’s actually lots of other steamboat shop around. Some serve organic foods.

Anyway, we are happy with the food here. It’s only RM16 per person. I don’t think I could get these yummilicious steamboat back in Miri!  Yet another, MUST TRY! =)

In Miri, we do have Pasar Malam selling varieties of things, however, among 20 stalls, i bet 10 stalls are selling the same thing and they aren’t selling things that are extra ordinary than usual. But in Cameron, choices and prices are much more attractive.

This is one of the favourite stop. I bought Cactus for my 2 beloved friends in KL. At the same time, Alex bought me dozens of roses too! Haha, roses here are just too cheap! RM 10 I can get 2 dozens and they give you free some other flowers as well.

Not to forget, if you wanna eat cheap strawberry, then please get all in Pasar Malam. They said the strawberries here might be rejected or those overnight strawberries. So if you really want to buy, please check carefully and don’t bring it home. By the time you get home, its already rotten.

Vegetables are everywhere, they have sweet corns, cabbage, spinach and many many more. The sellers would claim that they plant at the backyard of their house in Cameron. That is just to assure you that the vege are fresh from Cameron. However, its not 100% true, the fact is lots of plants were import from Ipoh! Don’t believe? Then you go explore around Cameron, you hardly see other plantations other than TEA. Do correct me if I’m wrong.

I found my favorite here, Tomatoes!!!
I take it as tidbits. They are selling 4 boxes for RM10. These are cherry tomatoes, not so sour, just nice.  In Miri I could hardly get such tomatoes, if yes, they are selling like RM10 per box!

The specialties from Cameron would be sweet potatoes, sweet corns and FRIED MUSHROOM! Most of the stalls are selling the tempura style mushrooms, vege and prawns. Price start from RM3. For the first few bites it could be very nice, but the more we eat, I think its a bit too oily.

Kenny Roger’s sister was here too. You check out the way they grilled the chicken. So professional la!

Surprisingly again, I saw lots of replica Crocs here. They are selling for RM20 per pair.  During this trip to KL, I finally realize there’s so much crocs in the market that we could hardly differentiate the replica and the genuine. Food good sake, buy the replica one is enough! Its 5x cheaper than the original!

Of course quality does matter! Please be a smart consumer lo!

We enjoyed the shopping at the pasar malam. We’ve filled up the tummy with many many tempura mushrooms, strawberries and sweetcorns. Other than the flowers Alex bought for me, and I manage to grab some magnets as souvenirs.

Take a look at those fruits magnets, it looks so real especially the Langsat! These are what we call valued for money! Its only RM2.50 for one magnet! Hahaha… I believe after reading my post, you would love to visit the pasar malam too right?

Don’t worry, school holidays is coming, do plan your trip earlier!

Supposedly, the Cactus Farm tour is included in our tour packages, which falls on day 2. Somehow, not far away from our Hotel, we found a free admission cactus farm.

From far we saw the funny and colorful cactus symbolize that this is the cactus farm. So Alex and I walk further up to the end and found the cactus heaven.

From the entrance, it looks more like a grocery stores to me. They sells lots of things, junk food, souvenirs and even antiques.
I assume this shouldn’t be the actual cactus farm, but since we were there why not to explore it?

In fact, the shops here are mainly for visitors. Its just located few steps away from the Pasar Malam. No wonder I had mistaken it as  the Cactus Farm. Somehow they do sells lots of plants, not only Cactus, but also flowers.

The cactus plants are mostly in small pots, which enable the tourist to bring back home.

I had my good time taking pictures too!

These are the few species that I never seen before.

The strange thing about the shop is, there’s no shopkeeper around except the front cashier.  At the back of the shops,  it comes with big area on plantations.  Not even a single CCTV!

Poor little Nephentus sell for RM18.

This is the wedding flowers.  I love the shape!

Some common flowers, Hibiscus.

And many other types of flowers.

They named this flower as Lipstick.
Do you know why? Probably it will left some red stain after you touch it?

As the farm is totally no restrictions, I just go further into their backyard. Alex saw that there’s large grows of Strawberries at the back.  There’s even larger cactus plants at the back. But to respect peoples properties, we better behave.

The strawberry farm’s gate were lock so I didn’t manage to take close up photos for that.

So if you’re not thinking to take any tour, probably you could consider to come and have a look here.
All In One. No admission fee. No surveillance TV. No Salesgirl. Its just so free and easy!