Lake Garden Taiping Review

On 11th December 2022, we rented bicycle at Lake Garden and did a boat ride there as well.

The bicycles were OK only the brakes were not in good condition.

The cycling and boat riding experience around the lake was fun. It was tiring as well.

It was tiring because we did a boat race among us who could complete the lake first.

rent a bicycle at lake garden taiping
rent a bicycle at lake garden taiping
posing bicycle ride lake garden taiping
posing bicycle ride lake garden taiping
jetty boat ride at lake garden taiping
jetty boat ride at lake garden taiping
boat ride at lake garden
boat ride at lake garden
view of lake garden taiping
view of lake garden taiping

The Bicycle Rental Rate at Lake Garden

City Angel (adult): RM5 per 30 minute ride.
Fatty Angel (adult and my 8 years old kid): RM20 per 30 minute ride.

 

bicycle rental rate at lake garden taiping
bicycle rental rate at lake garden taiping

The Boat Ride Rental Rate

For 4 seaters: RM20 per 30 minute ride.
For 2 seaters: RM12 per 30 minute ride.

Location

Lake Garden, Taiping

There are ample parking surrounding the area.

Overall Experience

We had fun and tiring experience: 5/5
Price (was reasonable): 5/5

Penang Batik Factory

We went to Penang Batik Factory so my kids could learn how to do batik. Unfortunately we went late around 4PM and they said it was already closed.

Even for next day they were fully booked and it requires 2 days to do the batik. One day to do the coloring by your own and another day for them to die the batik cloth and dry it.

Fortunately the person in charge was really friendly and showed us the factory and brief us on the making of batik without any fee.

The Factory

The factory is situated just behind the batik shop.

penang batik factory in the making
penang batik factory in the making
penang batik factory
penang batik factory
penang batik factory floral pattern
penang batik factory floral pattern

The Shop & Souvenir

They sell their made batik at the shop and you can buy souvenir to the adjacent shop.

penang batik factory shop
penang batik factory shop
penang batik factory souvenir shop
penang batik factory souvenir shop
penang batik factory souvernir shop
penang batik factory souvernir shop

Price

Penang Batik Factory charges RM35 to make your own handkerchief batik.

Location

Penang Batik Factory Location

There is ample parking on the premise.

Off Road ATV at Taiping Park Larut

We had our off road ATV adventure at Park Larut Taiping on 11th December 2022. It was our first time to do off road ATV.

the ATVs at Taiping
the ATVs at Taiping

There were 9 of us with 8 years old kid.

My son of 12 years old and my daughter of 13 years old ride their own ATV.

At first the guide will teach us how to ride ATV. After that they will ask us to follow them on simple path to see whether we can handle the ATV for climbing and going down a slope.

If everyone can do it, then they will allow us to ride our own off road ATV. Fortunately my children of 12 and 13 years old pass the test.

The Adventure

They were 9 of us riding the off road ATV. There were 2 guides assisting us in our adventure. They were really helpful in ensuring our safety so no one was injured during the adventure.

It was really scary at first going down the steep slope or climbing up a slope. Sometimes you have to do sharp turn if not you going off to the cliff.

During the adventure, the guide will take your photos and videos and later will share them via telegram with you.

 

stop at river before returning to base ATV Taiping
stop at river before returning to base ATV Taiping

 

Glamping

If you want to stay there, you can rent a glamping for your staycation. They have few type of glamping.

glamping at ATV Taiping
glamping at ATV Taiping
inside the glamping at ATV Taiping
inside the glamping at ATV Taiping
glamping inside old bus at ATV Adventure at park larut taiping
glamping inside old bus at ATV Adventure at park larut taiping
glamping inside the old bus ATV adventure taiping
glamping inside the old bus ATV adventure taiping
inside the bus glamping at ATV adventure taiping
inside the bus glamping at ATV adventure taiping

Amenities

ATV Adventure provides Coway for your water needs.

The toilets are also really clean.

wash your feet after the off road ATV
wash your feet after the off road ATV
four toilets at ATV Taiping
four toilets at ATV Taiping
ATV Taiping toilet is clean
ATV Taiping toilet is clean

If you stay they and want to do BBQ, you can rent the BBQ pit at reasonable price.

Minimum Age

Minimum age is 16 years old to ride your own ATV but if you pass the ATV ride test, the guide might consider your kids to ride their own ATV.

Location

ATV Adventure Park Larut, Taiping

There are ample parking within the premise and outside parking is within 5 mn walk.

Contact

012 2104 761 / 019 2121 791

Overall Experience

We rated 5/5 of our experience. It was challenging and at same time exciting.

 

Night Safari at Taiping Zoo

We went to Zoo Taiping. It is the oldest zoo in Malaysia that covers 36 acres and exhibits 1,300 animals representing 180 species.

Tram Ride

For the night safari, we used the tram to do the night safari and there was a tour guide explaining the animal around the zoo. It took around 20mn ride to see most of the animals in the zoo.

tram ride at night safari at taiping zoo
tram ride at night safari at taiping zoo

The Animals

We saw different animals such as lion, tiger, elephant, birds, swan, crocodile and other animal species.

Ticket Price

Standard price:

Adult: RM10
Kids: RM5

Locations

There is ample car park at the zoo. Car park is RM3 per entry. Besides there are F&B like Marry Brown and souvenir shops at the zoo.

Zoo Taiping Location

Overall Experience

It was my first time did night safari and I found it really interesting even though we can see all the animal but at least we could see the animal at night. Some active some passive.

Rating: 5/5

 

Amanjena Resort Melaka Review ~ Malaysia Santorini

We had my wife office team building cum short holiday at Amanjena Resort Malacca. The resort architectural design was simple but really beautiful.

The design is similar to Santorini architectural buildings designs in Aegean Islands, Greece.

santorini aegean islands
santorini aegean islands

The room was spacious. We booked 1 queen beds and 3 single beds.

The only problem we had was the toilet was stinky but the resort staff tried to resolve it by spraying some lemongrass liquid.

The foods and beverages were simple but delicious. They provided breakfast and high tea. For breakfast, the nasi lemak and fried chicken were really nice.

Resort staff was friendly and really helpful.

The beach was 5 mn walk from the resort but the beach was not really clean and not beautiful.

The resort has adults and kids swimming pool.

We had a BBQ and watched movie from the big screen at night. You can rent the BBQ pit for RM150 and RM100 for the big screen with projector.

Unfortunately there were nothing much activities you can do at the place or nothing much interesting nearby to visit.

The Room

amanjena-room
amanjena-room
amanjena-resort-room
amanjena-resort-room
amanjena-resort-balcony
amanjena-resort-balcony

Provided Amenities

  • 5 towels provided
  • toothpaste and toothbrushes
  • TV with Astro channels
  • Shampoo and shower gels
  • Room slipper
  • Tissue
astro channels provided at amanjena resort melaka
astro channels provided at amanjena resort melaka

The Surrounding

amanjena-outside-view
amanjena-outside-view
amanjena resort swimming pool
amanjena resort swimming pool
amanjena-camp-fire
amanjena-camp-fire
amanjena-resort-place-to-lepak
amanjena-resort-place-to-lepak
beach-near-amanjena
beach-near-amanjena

My Review

Overall review: 4/5

Room amenities: 5/5
Room itself: 4/5
Cleanliness: 4/5
Foods & Beverage: 4/5
Staff hospitality: 5/5
Surrounding activities: 3/5

June School Holiday Vacations at Johor Legoland

We had our short school holiday break from 5 to 8 Jun 2022.

5 Jun (Sunday) – Traveling to Puteri Harbour, Johor. We went to Muar to taste Muar Mee Bandung.

restoran mee bandung galah muar johor
restoran mee bandung galah muar johor

We stayed at Jen Hotel our favorite hotel in Puteri Harbour.

check in at Jen Hotel Puteri Harbour Johor
check in at Jen Hotel Puteri Harbour Johor
Jen Hotel room
Jen Hotel room

 

We ate delicious pau goreng at Mana Cafe.

eating pau goreng RM8 for 4 pieces at Mana Cafe
eating pau goreng RM8 for 4 pieces at Mana Cafe

We played online Uno before our dinner at TRK restaurant.

6 Jun (Monday) – We went to Legoland and plays Kingdom rides. Legoland was so pack with people and had long queue for popular rides.

kingdom ride legoland johor
kingdom ride legoland johor
legoland playground
legoland playground
legoland water fountain
legoland water fountain

We had our lunch at 7 Spice with my wife’s sister. Tried to play electric scooter but there were so many people then decided to play it the next day.

7 Jun (Tuesday) – We ride the pharoah ride, water ride and Fire Engine. We won on the fire engine race against other families. Haha.

driving school legoland
driving school legoland
water ride legoland
water ride legoland

In the afternoon, we went to Johor Premium Outlet and had our lunch at Subway. Most the foods at JPO finished or restaurants were full.

long queue at absolute thai JPO
long queue at absolute thai JPO

 

It was nice of Jen Hotel on how their arrange my kids panda and cat pillows when they made up the room.

makeup the room at jen hotel
makeup the room at jen hotel
makeup the room at jen hotel 2
makeup the room at jen hotel 2

The kids went to Jen Hotel swimming pool in the evening.

puteri harbour view from jen hotel swimming pool level 4
puteri harbour view from jen hotel swimming pool level 4
puteri harbour view from jen hotel swimming pool
puteri harbour view from jen hotel swimming pool

At night Dien and Deef played electric scooter at Puteri Harbour.

beautiful yatch at background
beautiful yatch at background
new hotel Trinidad Suites besides Jen Hotel
new hotel Trinidad Suites besides Jen Hotel

8 Jun (Wednesday) – Had our breakfast at Jen Hotel and then the kids again went to the swimming pool. We had our lunch at McDonalds EduCity. Traveling back to KL and the traffic was quite smooth.

breakfast at jen hotel
breakfast at jen hotel
delicious americano at Jen Hotel
delicious americano at Jen Hotel
patisserie at jen hotel breakfast
patisserie at jen hotel breakfast
cereal and fruit juices at jen hotel breakfast
cereal and fruit juices at jen hotel breakfast
nasi lemak jen hotel breakfast
nasi lemak jen hotel breakfast
yogurt salad n fruits at jen hotel breakfast
yogurt salad n fruits at jen hotel breakfast

Restoran Special Mee Bandung Udang Galah Muar Johor

Sempena cuti sekolah dari 6 Jun sampai 10 Jun, kami sekeluarga pergi ke Legoland dan singgah di Muar untuk merasa mee bandung special.

Kami singgah di Restoran Mee Bandung Udang Galah.  Ramai orang mengunjungi restoran ini sehingga susah nak cari tempat duduk.

restoran mee bandung galah suasana di dalam
restoran mee bandung galah suasana di dalam

Mee Bandung Muar

Kami pesan mee bandung biasa kerana tidak pasti sama ada sedap ke tak mee bandung ini. Saya yang tak minat sangat seafood memang tak suka mee bandung manakala wife pulak bagi 3 / 5 bintang.

Apa-apapun setiap orang ada cita rasa masing-masing. Bagi kami macam biasa je bagi orang lain maybe sedap.

mee bandung muar johor
mee bandung muar johor
makan di mee bandung galah muar johor
makan di mee bandung galah muar johor

Lokasi Restoran

Latlong: 2.05888889, 102.55916667

Peta Google

 

Balik Kampung to Kota Kinabalu Sabah Y2022

Balik Kampung

This year is balik kampung for Kota Kinabalu. Every year, me and my wife will alternate for balik kampung between Kota Kinabalu and Kota Bahru.

For Kota Kinabalu usually we will go for balik kampung for 2 weeks. This time from 2nd May till 15th May 2022.

Usually we took Malindo to go to KK as the flight tickets were reasonable with ample leg room but this year we took Malaysia Airlines (MAS) because Malindo flight were fully booked.

Our Memories

2 May (Monday) – Our flight to Kota Kinabalu, caught by surprise as it was first day of Raya.

going back to KK at KLIA airport
going back to KK at KLIA airport
flight to KK
flight to KK
flight to KK inside the aeroplane
flight to KK inside the aeroplane
view inside boeing MAS flight
view inside boeing MAS flight

3 May (Tuesday) – Busy preparing for our family open house

4 May (Wednesday) – Our family open house

raya family open house
raya family open house

5 May (Thursday) – Planning for our family holiday. At night went to our favorite cafe house, October cafe.

october cafe chicken sandwich
october cafe chicken sandwich

 

6 May (Friday) – tried to find soto and rojak restaurant bust most of them still close. Had Friday prayer at Tanjung Aru mosque. All the family watched Dr Strange 2 movie at 630PM.

dr strange 2 with all the family
dr strange 2 with all the family

7 May (Saturday) – Buy Ikan bilis, amplang kuih cincin etc at KK Pasar and buying aqua shoes and goggles for Karambunai.

buying aqua shoes at sport direct
buying aqua shoes at sport direct

8 May (Sunday) – Go to Nexus Karambunai Resort  & Spa for short holiday

 

swimming pool at pool villa karambunai resort
swimming pool at pool villa karambunai resort

9 May (Monday) – Enjoying Karambunai beach and Pool Villa

10 May (Tuesday) – Back from Karambunai at had lunch at Ganyang seafood restaurant.

11 May (Wednesday)  – Go to Mantanani island

boat ride to mantanani island
boat ride to mantanani island

12 May (Thursday) – Enjoying Mantanani island.

swimming at mantanani island beach
swimming at mantanani island beach

13 May (Friday) – Back from Mantanani island

14 May (Satuday) – Liesha and Hadien were sick so we just buy hair band for Liesha and had our dinner at Secret Recipe.

15 May – Back to KL

We had little hiccup where the taxi that we booked couldn’t make it and at the end had to take expensive Limo Taxi Alphard for our ride back home.

taxi limo alphard RM232 ride
taxi limo alphard RM232 ride

Y2022 Raya

This year was really packed, and we had our last vacation with our aunty Bongsu. She was able to enjoy Karambunai beach before passing away on 15th May 2022 around 11:20PM.

All the families were sad with her sudden demise.

takziah wan maria hj othman lee
takziah wan maria hj othman lee

 

Nexus Karambunai Resort & Spa Holiday Review 2022

Our Holiday at Karambunai

We stay at Nexus Karambunai Resort & Spa from 9th May till 11th May 2022. It was big family gathering after Raya. We rented 3 Pool Villas and 3 unit of apartments.

It was really wonderful holiday and good memory of family gathering.

Pool Villa

The pool villa unit was big with 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms with living hall and kitchen. The master bathroom has big bathub.

It also has small 3 swimming pools in the villa. It is fully furnished with fridge, cooking utensils, aircond and TV and towels and extra blankets were provided by Nexus Karambunai.

Unfortunately one of the fridge not really cold and aircond also not really cold and we faced few small problems like not functioning doors and toilet flush.

We did complain to the Nexus management they did their best to rectify it but some problems they were unable to repair like toilet flush problem and fridge.

Even though we faced all these smalls annoyances we had really good holiday as the villa were comfortable and we really enjoyed the swimming pools.

master bedroom at pool villa karambunai
master bedroom at pool villa karambunai
living room pool villa at karambunai resort
living room pool villa at karambunai resort
swimming pool at pool villa karambunai resort
swimming pool at pool villa karambunai resort
beautiful view of pool villa karambunai resort
beautiful view of pool villa karambunai resort
having delicious sabah honey chicken wings at karambunai pool villa
having delicious sabah honey chicken wings at karambunai pool villa

 

Karambunai Beach

Price

For the Pool Villa we got it at RM490 per night while for apartment with one bedroom we got it at RM160 per night.

Recommendation

I really like the Pool Villa, it had good facilities and the villa was good for you to enjoy the beach, swimming pool and bathub. Even though we faced small issues but Nexus Management was really responsive and tried their best to solve any issues arises.

I found it best value for money.