Kluang

Here is the summary of the Kluang trip last week with Chok, FL, Yuing and Adeline.

* Day 1 (27 Nov 2006) *

The girls went to Tropical Village near Air Hitam in the morning but I did not join them as I was still in KL that morning for some registration procedures.

I arrived at Kluang about 4pm that evening. We went out for supper with Chok. He brought us to the hawker center at Taman Lian Seng where we had plenty of delicious food. Chok went to order a lot of food once we had found a table. He paid for everything and this made us so touched and awkward. He is so kind to drive us around. We should give him a big treat.

We had very delicious ikan bakar, sotong goreng, fried sausages + fishballs and dessert.


* Day 2 (28 Nov 2006) *

Chok had his day off as there was no electrical supply for his shop for the day due to some maintenance. He offered to drive us around.

We went to Kluang Station in the morning. Surely we won’t miss out the roti bakar there. We also had nasi lemak, fried beehoon and half-boiled eggs.

I met my primary school classmate, YueLi at the railway station. She was going to Singapore for a job hunt, Good luck for her.

We went to Taman Tasik after breakfast. Well, it is actually a nice place but just lack of systematic management and maintenance. The lake is now polluted with rubbish and the water is so dirty. The lotus in the lake is beautiful, if you admire the scene from far. Once you go near to it, what you can see will be the yellow dirty water and rubbish “swimming” in the water.

Next station is the Che Luan Kor. It is a nice place for photographing. The girls were excited to see the very famous river, Sungai Mengkibol, beside of it.

We went to Gunung Lambak after that. This is a must-see as it is the landmark of Kluang. It rained yesterday so it was very slippery for mountain hiking.

(Actually both me and Chok were happy for it as we do not have to hike then! Hiking is tiring for old people like us…)

The hanging bridge is of course an attracting view for us. We walked up the mountain till the place where a man-made geyser is found. We took some pictures there and left soon as the weather is cloudy =(

We head to Kahang after that. We were all worried with the very cloudy weather. It rained a bit on the way to Kahang. Luckily that the rain stopped when we reached at Kahang Organic Rice Eco-Farm (KOREF).

KOREF looks much different from last time. The multi-purpose hall has been built. There are also more chalets, including one floating hut on the water. I love the lotus in the farm!

KK is not in the farm. I talked to Uncle Chai. Luckily that he still remembers me after I reminded him about my working life at the farm last year. He told me to bring my friends visit the farm as I wish. That is so nice of him!

It is not the season of paddy so there were only weeds in the farm. We saw some migratory birds flying freely in the farm.

We also visited the dragon fruit plantation in the farm. This is the first time for Adeline and Yuing to see dragon fruits which are still on the tree!!!

Here are some pictures of the farm.