Redang Trip - 2nd Day

2nd day our xtvt started at 7.30am where we went for breakfast (nasi lemak, mee hun, breads, and etc), then sharp at 8.30am all of us prepared to the jetty for our 2nd snorkeling xtvt. From a small boat we swapped to the bigger boat (lebih kurang mcm open ferry)that waited us at the deeper site of the sea. The weather was not so good that day where in the middle of our journey we encountered the heavy rain. From what we heard from "abg boat", we supposed to snorkel at the place where we could see the baby shark and beautifull corals, however it was cancelled due to the cloudy water after rain so they brought us to another point. Oh forgot to tell ya, for the 2nd and 3rd snorkeling xtvt.... we were no more brought to the beach to snorkel. This time, the ferry took us straight to the deeper side of the sea so that we could just jumped from the ferry and observed the beauty of scenery under-water. For those who were not interested to snorkel, could just stay in the ferry. (Which I think better to stay at the resort than on the ferry as when the ferry stopped without moving, the motion of the waves will make us getting dizzy easily).

So far that area was still not bad, not so deep coz there were certain areas that I could feel my feet touched the ground or corals which sometimes hurt! Mr Shrek beraksi sgt hebat disini. Rata2 khidmatnya diperlukan utk diabadikan didlm photo sampai ade group lain pun nak pinjam Shrek gak. Luckily Mas baik hati kasi pinjam. Kalau aku mesti keberatan. Hehehe. Overall we really enjoyed to the max here, the best so far. Siap buat keje gile terjun dr atas kapal... As ussual only 3hrs allocated for snorkeling so at 11.30am we went back to Kalong. It was still raining and we reached to our resort around 12am. Sempat kering2kan baju, took a short nap because kepala ade skit pening until 1.30pm where once more, an announcement for lunch.

We had our lunch (the food was ok but I had no appetite to eat, probably because of the dizziness and tired). At 2.15pm, we gathered for our last snorkel xtvt. That was only Sham who wanted to join us while the other boys decided to just relax at the resort.

The weather was back to normal (it was freakin' hot! so cepat2 la sapu Sunblock for protection) then the staffs brought us to the place where we could see NEMO FISH. This time the water was a bit deep plus the waves were really strong. After 15mins snorkel, I already felt tired and semput gasping for air so I decided to went up back to the ferry. Swayed and unstable plus the motion of the waves, i tripped on the metal ladder and fell on the floor. My tight torn and I got wounded knee. Serve me right!!! I cannot stayed longer at the ferry because it made me feel more dizzy so I went back to the water, but searched for the buoy.

There was one funny incident but suspense jugakla where Lina and I tgh seronok2 main pelampung tu suddenly the wave had brought us a bit far from the ferry. We didn't want to go that far coz mmg sgt penat nak swim back to the ferry. However once we realized it, we swam but instead of become nearer to the ferry, we were drifted to the back of the ferry. It was scary because we heard a few peoples shouted at us to move from there because we could hit the ferry's circulating fan. Berkecai tau kalau kena!!! Luckily ade abg hensem yg mmg bwk pelampung for those yg x tau berenang berkeliaran kt situ so I called him and asked him to brought me back to the ferry. So funny sbb both of us mmg pegang pelampung time tu tp mcm x larat sgt nak berenang. Ibarat berenang x gerak2. After that I was totally flat, dizzy, sampaikan Lina & Mas buat aksi terjun dr atas kapal pun aku x larat nak join. Another incident berlaku atas kapal, we were supposed to move back but the engine was overheated. They had to fill the water on it and it tooks about 15mins jugakla baru kami beredar dr situ but on the middle of our journey, once more the smokes came out from the engine compartment. The ferry stopped again and that time dah rasa anytime kalau aku bukak mulut bole termuntah. Tahan2... then another 10mins baru ferry jalan balik. Alhamdullilah we managed to reach back to Kalong in safe and that was a very precious moment to me. Sampai2 as ussual, we had our tea than took a bath. Since it was our last evening at redang, we spent it with a photo session at the beach while Lina flying her kites until maghrib.

1st Snorkeling XTVT - Marine Centre Park

We went for lunch at 1.30pm (tiap2 kali waktu makan & snorkeling akan ade announcement, baguskan... so kena alert la), we had typical malay dishes and sweet watermelon. Overall the meals were not bad at all.

We prepared for our first snorkel xtvt (Google and life jacket rented at RM5 and will be used sepanjang masa kita ber"snorkel" kat sini, overall for our package we had 3 times snorkelling so we had to look into our equipments carefully coz kalau hilang dendanya sgt manyakk..)


Collecting our googles and life jackets


Then at 2.15pm laungan "snorkeling2" berkumandang where we all needed to gather at the pier. All the excited faces, fully prepared and get ready for the first water exposore.


Cant help, the pix was so nice at prettily captured that I have to post it double!! (I dont know if it got to do we the pixel or sumthin, my hair looked damn shiny and healthy which I like so much!!)


The boat took us to the Marine Centre Park which was our first place to snorkel, an island with beautiful beach.

See, almost there!!!


Wow.... COOL!!!


Photos taken right after we touched to the land here. With all members except Hisham who was taking this photo


With all girls before terjun ke laut!


The water was so clear you could directly saw the fishes and sea creatures. We brought some bread to feed the fish and enjoyed the inside water sceneries. Thanks and salute to Mr Shrek (Mas's water-proof camera) which was so usefull and acted greatly for this event. Here were some underwater photos taken by Mass

Ade sekor ikan tu siap pose pandang camera!


Kenapa la ikan2 nie suka kerumun mamat suar merah nie. Kalernya menarik perhatian kot. Ke perut dia sedap!!


Im soo excited to be able to feed the fish, feel it and taste the bite of the fish. Enjoy!!!


Coral & the blue fish


Hell Boys yeah!!


I look so semput, huh!


Happy huh!


All together


We were given 2 hrs time for snorkeling so around 4.15pm, we were called back to the boat and back to our resort.

Specialnya Kalong resort nie, it had it's own private beach where we could enjoy other xtvt like canoeing, volleyball, or just main2 tepi pantai without gangguan org2luar. Its just for Kalong residence only.

What a wonderfull evening....


Having fun canoeing


Back from snorkeling, x puas2 lg we continued to swim and photoshoot at the kalong beach.

Play with dolphin. Teruk dolphin tu dikerjakan kitaorg...


Enjoyed the sunset at the pier


At the signboard


Masuk waktu maghrib everybodies went back to the room, took turn for bath and at 7.30pm calling for dinner kedengaran.

We had dinner right on time, then x sabar2 lagi nak memulakan xtvt karaoke. Pkul 8.30pm dh tercongok dpan pintu bilik karaoke. Malam adalah masa utk xtvt bebas, you can watch TV, playing pool, poker, pingpong and etc.

First, sesi memilih lagu...


Waiting turn to sing


Yes but dont U think this is too much??


The other members yg x join karaoke playing poker...

Peek-A-Boo


Back to Karaoke


After bantai more than 10songs back 2 back (smpai abg2 yg keje kat situ pun join gak karaoke, sibuk jer nk tumpang populariti), Syazwan invited us to have a walk to the Laguna beach on the other side of this island. Actually, we already been informed by Mr Tim during the welcome briefing that he did not encourage us to go there at night for some security issue (and after what I had experienced or heard to be exact) I understand why he gave such advise which i will tell ya later. However the attraction to go there was strong as what we heard and Google'd, that place is more happening at night. So there we were, 9 of us around 10pm berbekalkan cahaya bulan wandering along the beach and woods to our destination. Honestly when we reached that place, it's not as interesting as we expected (or maybe just me). The hassle that we went through along the way to be here is not worth it. For me it was just another place of luxury beaches same like Langkawi or Kuta at Bali. The place was nice it just we came there in a wrong time. Lots of the shop were already closed.
So much places to go. Have it your way


Sampai2 je amik gambar dulu


Our turn


One of the Resort


A bridge heading to the Redang Reef Resort that located on the other site of the beach.


It's dark but I hope U can see the flag, dats the point why I took this picture.


Redang Reef Resort


This photo was taken odw back from Reef Resort, with the Laguna Beach as my background view


Im in love with Redang....


Tada..lets play some music bebeh!! Hawaian style


Building consisted of few of shop lots like restaurant, massage centre, souvenier shop


Not much activities to do here so after walking around we went back home to our resort. At our resort, without any attempt to continue "lepak2" lagi, all of us straighted back to our room. Tomorrow we got 2 snorkeling xtvt so better re-charged back the energy to go for full throttle tomorrow. After Isya' prayer... all of us climbed our bed and zzz.z.zz

Redang - Day 1

Ok, since Im in da mood to write tonight (despite my lack of free time + high workload), I will continue on my experience to Redang. Starting from where I stopped on my last post, all of us met at Hentian Putra around 10pm where the bus scheduled to depart at 10.30pm but due to certain circumtances, it was delay until 11.30pm.

Kak Yatie inside Hentian Duta, you can see the board at the back listed Transnasional to Kuala Terengganu at 10.30pm, bus no : WTC3771

And finally the bus arrived!


Posed with all the trip's member before naik bas (off course who's not in this photo was the one who took the photo, xcept Piyot)


One more, much clear one but only me and Miss yatie


Instead of single deck bus, we got the double decker one and all our seats were messed up. Mas & I sat at lower deck where I found quite relief since I was still not recover from my headache and having an experience sitting on the higher deck before, I knew how it like (and my prediction was right, as all members who sat above mengadu pening2 and terbuai2 bukan perasaan tp badan). Lina and Miss Yatie were separated x dpt dduk sama. First quater of the journey was a disaster. My head spinned to the max, nausea, isi2 perut dah bergelodak and felt like to vomit anytime expecially time menempuh Karak yg berpusing2 tu. The feeling slowly dissapeared afterward and I managed to make myself sleep. We stopped once at Chukai/Kemaman around 2.30am (x percaya?? Bas ni mmg sgt laju)where I quickly ran to buy panadol, had a fresh air outside the bus and lepak2 at the restaurant for hot drinks.


We continued our journey afterward and reached Kuala Terengganu bus station at 5am.


Sampai sana, our tour agent (Ping Anchorage) already waited and he brought us to the office first (not so far from the bus station) for us to stay buat2 ape yg patut sementara menunggu ke 7.30am utk bertolak ke Jeti Merang.
For those who could pray, we went for Subuh prayer first at the mosque nearby. (Masjid Abidin Kuala Terengganu)


OMG, my pinky crocs met her family at the mosque!!


Back to the Anchorage office, we gathered at the traveller cafe located at the roof of the building. Some spent the free time to continue sleeping;


Some who already awake played congkak to keep the momentum;


Some might just took photos;


While some might prefer to be just in the photo...hehehhe :P


But on top of that, there were two people who on RIVAL, trying hard to be outstanding from another, ended up wearing the same colour of T-shirt!!! Since that day they had become DIGI team and become friend forever!


Back to our trip, we had our breakfast odw to Merang and it was my first experience breakfast nasi dagang.


My nasi dagang with pulut ikan... Sgt sedap (or mmg tgh lapar time tu)


We continued our journey and arrived at jetty around 8.30am where we needed to wait (again??) for the boats. Quite a lots jgkla visitor arinie. As per Lina's we were consider as an early birds for this season as normally Redang will close end to early of the year because of the monsoon. So price was quite cheap.
As ussual while waiting, we had a photoshoots at the jetty area.


Explorace action


Nice view taken by Miss Yatie


As schedule the boats arrived at 9pm, however due to the low tide, the boats could not parked (hahahah skali mcm keta lak aku guna perkataan park nie), hmmm landed (that's much suitable word) at the jetty. Instead its waited for us a bit far from the beach, at the deeper site of the sea. You can see how deep by measuring the level of that man inside the water. (The marked one). Almost paras pinggang tu!!


We had to prepare to be wet and went through the sea water to the boats.


"Come2, dont scared" Akbar motivated us. Haha!


Sekali bila tgk keadaan time tu mmg meriah. Mcam pendatang asing beramai2 naik tongkang dgn beg besar suma.


All the boats here were normally runs bt the resort itselves, so once we heard they called Kalong..Kalong which was our resort, we headed to the boat and started the water trip to Redang Kalong.


45mins in the boat, mcm naik kuda finally we reached to our resort. Only 2 words emerged in my mind, subhanallah for the magnificent panorama and alhamdullilah for the chance to experience it.


We gathered at the open dining hall, had a short briefing from Mr Tim (org kuat Redang)


Registration & signing the T&C


Then saat yg ditunggu checked in to our super comfort room. Our room was located on the 2nd floor, the ground floor was a room to store equipment for snorkeling and diving.


Some photos taken in our room using tripod. Katil sorang satu tu!!


There were 3 rooms on that floor, we were next to the single guys room while Syazwan & Dee's room on the other building.
*Pose gedix infront of the guys room. Room service..room service. Hahahah :P


Good things about our room were, ianya mmg betul2 facing the sea,


and also next to the dining hall so it was like centre of everything. Heheheh.
(Behind us was the dining hall)


Keseluruhannya mmg sgt puas hati. Chaiyok Lina!!

I will update our first snorkeling XTVT on the next post. Stay tuned!