Endau-Rompin : Last Episode

Goodbye to Rompin Beach Resort

It came the end of our trip. Why the good moment will always have to end fast?... Still not enough time spent with my beloved friends, however I took it as a motivation. At least we have proven that we could still maintain our relationship and went for holiday together even we had other commitment, (though not as frequent as when we all are still single). More trip to come after this, insyaallah....

Back to our trip, we packed our thing, had our last breakfast and before checked out we toured all over this resort and took photos.

Me, infront of the resort.


Our room at the higher level (3rd floor) of the building. Chalets are available at the back facing the pool and near with the beach.


Last photo-shoot at RBR


Goodbye RBR. Till we meet again.


We started our journey back to KL around 10pm and this time it was Nick's turn to drive. Since we already knew our route, our journey back was smooth and easy. From Rompin to Muadzam to Gemenchih. Last time we went to Gemenchih from Tampin-Rembau-Seremban highway, this time we try a different way from Kuala Pilah to Seremban.

Pilot, co-pilot and stewardess at the back! :D


Seremban map...




Ulu Bendul Recreational Park

Holla, this was unexpected. We were hungry (coz it's already lunch time) and we were LUCKY.... (Oh please don't get bored, yes lucky once more. It seems like luck was on our side all along this journey, Alhamdullilah...) We passed through the Ulu Bendul area so we stopped at the recreational park for lunch. I never been here before, so imagine my feeling. Super EXCITED!! Oh, before I go on with my ke"jakun"an, this is a bit about UBRP.

The Ulu Bendul Recreational Park located some 16km from Seremban on the Kuala Pilah Sri Menanti route, at the foot of Bukit Angsi provides a welcome respite to the weary traveler. The park is one of the six recreational parks in Negeri Sembilan developed for eco-tourism purposes. Picnic lovers should find this place inviting because of its shady and leafy surroundings. The refreshing and cool water from the stream that meanders through the park offers a fun place for visitors bent on having a dip. For the more adventurous, they can go jungle-trekking. To savor the best out of this park, visitors may prefer to stay at the specially designated camping grounds or rent one of the chalets in the park.

Wow, there is a waterfall here... no wonder I felt cold and it refreshed us after 4hrs on journey. The food was ok, masak lemak cili api is of course the main dish kat N9 ni kan (makanan ruji den tue.. good!). Full, we continued to take a look around the place and took photos. So happy! Unbelievable, just heard it from friends who'd went here before and now, I've been there.

To the waterfall...


There were rows of shop selling snacks, souvenirs and local products. The building looks like an old castle. Mcm ruined Disneyland pun ade gak...



Lets take a look of what caught Nick’s attention..




What...? Tudung saji. Dlm byk2 tempat kat sini leh beli tudung saji. Such a good wife.. huhuhu.



Ok la tue. Can make the tudung saji as our props... :D



Jangan main2 kat sini ade Wifi tau..


The Signs..


Selesai puas melawat kawasan we back to drive home, however it was still early. It was 2pm when we reached Seremban, and suddenly Nick popped up an idea to stop at Nilai3 for shopping.
See I told you, she was totally different now. She was not into a rough adventure, lack of interest on photo-shoot, and from the beginning when we asked her for an idea of where is the place to go at Rompin, she replied "Tempat shopping xde ke?". So now Ur wish granted Nick. As I told U, luck was following us along this journey, so everyone got their wish. So here we were, Nilai 3 Shopping Centre.


Nilai 3 Shopping Centre.

Nilai 3 Wholesale Centre is undoubtedly a one-stop destination of wholesale, tourist and shopping paradise that offers a wide variety of goods and items at very attractive and competitive prices. It is a famous place to shop your wedding stuff and also well-known place to buy a new and trendy textiles.



Though it was Nick's idea, seems like Yantoq and me who was so "beria" and excited, toured from one shop to another and finally bought ourselves each 2-3 pieces of cloth. Current trend was Japanese-cotton and 1-Malaysia silk, so we were like "rambang mata", choose from one textile to another, bargained for cheaper price, decided and undecided to buy.... performed all the normal woman's "fussy"ness during shopping la...

After done shopping, we dropped at the stall nearby to buy some local fruits for our families.



While waiting for Nick to buy the fruits, Yantoq and me went to the still-under-construction-park just across the stall and took photo... (sempat tu..)



Eiffel Tower of Nilai. Impress tak...?


All our missions accomplished, then we went home. This time really back to home, xde singgah2 mana2 dah...........

Fusshhh.... finally I completed my writing on Endau-Rompin Trip. It was such a trip with lots of luck and like my previous2 trip, I did learn, observed and experienced a lots. All the obstacles and challenges we've been through, when I remembered it back, it just made me laugh and I enjoyed it. It made me appreciate that Malaysia also have a lots of interesting places like other country. Who says holiday in Malaysia is no fun. Cuti-cuti Malaysia, support our country and love our country. Till then....... CHOW!

Endau-Rompin : Main Air (Part 5)

Endau-Rompin Beach Resort

Back from the beach treat (as I called it), we took a rest at our room. Totally flat, however we didn't want to waste our time spent here, so not more than half an hour, we back for action and went down to the beach at the back of our resort.

Creative tak...? Sorry bukan kami yg buat. Budak2 mana tah tau2 dh terpacak replika dia kat pantai nie. Makcik tumpang glamer ajo...



Romantic kan, lepak2 to see the sunset!



It was Nick's idea who started to draw her image on the sand, rather than typical "*** waz 'ere" or "From **** with love" tu kan. Then we olss followed to do the same and took picture with our own drawing of ourselves. Motif... amik gamba and kasi sape2 geng LEMBU yg x ikut jealous..!


Then photo session as ussual... Pose ala majalah mangga



First attempt for the jumping action. Inhale...exhale...ready.........



1,2,3 lompat!! Ala, my feet still stick to the ground. Wrong timing..



Again... and this was after un-countable attempts. Yantoq dah bengang, aku masih bole gelak2 lagi. Huh!! Almost surrender, make it last one. Inhale...exhale...ready!!!



Woooo............ gotcha!! Finally we made it!




Wonder why there was less photo of Nick? Well if you know her, she was totally not herself in this trip. She supposed to be a cam-whore, not just berdiri di belakang tabir every time we were on shoot. Probably hatinya melayang pada sang suami yg jauh di tinggalkan di ibu kota. :D Ape2pun it was a good thing for us since undoubtedly she is a good photographer and dgn rela hati sudi mengambil gambar kami sepanjang trip ni. So I got no comment on her lack interest on the camera shoot tu. Untung gak. Hehehehe...

So antara aksi2 gedik kami di pantai...



Last one...




Chillin' at Pool

It was our last night at Endau-Rompin so we wanted to make some memorable xtvt that we would never forget on this trip. As per our plan (it was Yantoq's actually as she constantly reminded us to bring our swimming suit before the trip started),we went to the swimming pool provided by the resort after dinner around 10pm. It was damn cold, freezing but we forced ourselves to jump into the iced-like water pool like Yantoq said "We paid for it what, so we entitled to utilize all the facilities provided. x guna rugi....." (Ok, like we really paid pun, mind U I got this voucher free..). However, after few minutes our body temperature slowly adapted with the water temperature and we felt slightly warm which made us started to enjoy our swimming like crazy... I mean really crazy.

Take a look on our photos :

Main gelongsor. So much fun!




Maafkan saya, saya mmg begini. Sentiasa OVER!!


OMG... ape yg aku dh buat ngan dua bini org nie. Bukan saya yg merosakkan mereka ok.. mereka yg merosakkan saya. Huhuhu...



We were totally all out that night. Yg dah kawen suma balas dendam masa free yg ade utk berfoya2! Appreciate to their "hubbies" for the trust and understanding! Really felt like those old times when we were still in high school, doing the crazy things were like our habit and hobby. I'm not proud of it (we were really naughty, seriously....), however all the memories are among the precious things I have in my life. I learned so much and it helps me to become the person I am today.

Well U see, I started to slip out of topic (U will get used to it... hehehe), so after masing2 dh melebam mandi swimming pool, shivered.... we went back to our room, changed our clothes and went to bed. Cozy in our warm blanket, we were not directly called it quit. It's so difficult to get a chance to meet my dear friends like this so we continued chit chat until everyone exhausted, and finally zzzz....zzzzz...

Endau-Rompin : Beach Treats (Part 4)

Hi bertemu kita kembali di dlm ruangan makan angin ke Endau-Rompin...


Pantai Penyabong, Endau Johor

Back to our detour to Pantai Penyabung after been recommended by Kind-Hearted_Uncle we met at Jetty Tg. Gemuk. It only took around 10-15mins from jetty to Pantai Penyabung and along the way there, I was impressed as in just 5mins I could “ulang-alik” Johor and Pahang. That’s why the place is called Endau_Rompin where Endau is in Johor territory while Rompin in Pahang states.

We reached at Pantai Penyabung!


Pantai Penyabung was not bad at all. We wanted beach, we got beach!! Satisfied, we started to "Cam-Whore" like crazy.



There was a pier extending from a shore over water for a landing place of boats and small ships. We headed there...



As you can see, there were few people sat there enjoying their peace-full fishing.



Some reminder for the visitors



Yes U saw it right. It were swordfishes... And according to the owner, (came along the way from JB with family who had fishing as a weekly family xtvt. So sweet..kan), he wanted to cook and make that swordfishes as "FISH AND CHIPS ". (Dunno la if he bluffed us kan...)



The view of the sea from this point was breathtaking. I also lucky as at this time one boat landed and had a photo with it.



Back to the shore, took a rest in front of the budget chalet which available quite plenty here. Mostly I reckoned, these chalets were reserved by "die-hard-fishing-lovers" who came here with their families, but to be left behind while they (the husbands to be exact) booked a boot for few days and went for fishing.



Such a colourfull canoes here!



Suddenly, something interesting had caught my attention...

It was a beautiful tiny island where we could just walk along the sea bank. Well I decided to go there with Yantoq. Considering that she wore a platform shoes that time, Nick was not interested to join our adventure.



Obviously Nick had made a right decision because it was quite dangerous to get there as the surface of the bank covered in rough stones and it might look near, but to go there was quite a distance and so UN-smooth. The rocks were not stood still on the ground. U have to be very carefull. You might slipped easily like I numerously did!



Tara... after all the hard work, it was just worth it. The place was so isolated, no people... but amazingly beautiful.



Then to make sure all the time spent, the sweat withdrawn, the calories burned, the energy consumed and the scratches we got equally paid, we took photos as much as we could until we satisfied coz I tell you, to get back to the shore would be another long story.



Heaven... isn't?



I felt like I've been in another world. Serene, peace and wonderfull!! Such a Pandora..



This looks like I've been in another planet. Marikh perhaps.. :D



Chameleon. Promote bag skit....



We could stay there longer however the most factor that worried us that time was tidal. Imagine if the tidal rise that made the island separated from the shore and we trapped there. More worse if the island completely submerged by the water... Astagfirullahualzim...

Quickly we back to the shore...

Only to found that Nick was really enjoying herself alone eating er... rambutan!!



Everybody started to feel hungry, we had a lunch here before continued to our second destination recommended by the local who was so kind to show us the place where we just followed him by car to Pantai Air Papan.
(What kind of charm that we used/wore for being so lucky along the trip eh? ;P)




Pantai Air Papan, Endau Johor

OK it sounds a little bit "dirty" if you try to say the word PANTAI with the "i" missing in the signboard behind me.



Sampai2, probably sicked of her platform shoes that made Nick's first destination here was to the row of shops selling souvenirs and beach attires and stuffs.



Well it's not much here. Just a typical beach like Pantai Klebang in Melaka.



If you followed all my trips to the beaches, it's hard not to find me without having a nice slurpp of coconut's drink there. It's a must! Walla....



Makcik sudah tuo.. mato pun dah x nampak nak amik gambo...



We didn't spent much time nor took many photos here. We headed back to our resort, still couldn't believe our luck in completing our day today with such a constructive and interesting plan. Thanks for all the information from the locals here. Kalau x mesti kitaorg dah meraban2 xde tujuan hidup... :D

Endau-Rompin : A Dream to Tioman (Part 3)

23rd July 2010, Day 2

We woke up early and had a breakfast at 9pm. Of course the breakfast voucher actually valid for 2 persons only, pandai2 la nak hidup menyelit lagi sorang. There were fried mee/rice, nasi lemak, nuggets & hotdogs, breads and cereals.



After breakfast we went to the back of our resort for a beach view. We also took a few photos :

Fresh in the morning...


Chalet also available at this resort. It is located at the back of our block so we passed through it odw to the beach.... jalan2 makan angin


Hoyee...hoyye.. I saw THE SEA!


Self-posing


Adegan "Kuch2 Hota Hai"


Ronda2 bole sewa basikal nie... ;P


After "puas" bergambar suma, kami bersiap to proceed with our first plan, Pulau Tioman... PULAU TIOMAN?? Yes U read it right. We just came out of this idea last night since all the plans of what to do or where to go here were adhoc. We just wanted to have a light and easy holiday, so we didn't arrange our itinerary at all. It all depends on mood, time and will. Nick was not in favor for an adventure trip, so National Park would not be in the list. We really stupid to think that we could go to Tioman for just a day, took photos then go back in the evening. Never that we knew the ferry to Tioman departed timely and took about approx 2hrs of journey. We went to buy the tickets at Pelabuhan Tg Gemuk around 10.30am only to see that a long queue already formed at the ticket counter. There are few companies operate the ferry to Tioman. The price is standard, RM35/way only the times are different.

Lucky we met the group of friendly uncles (guards, taxi drivers and pekerja2 yg lepak kat situ) coz maybe it was obvious that we look un-prepared and un-decided, one of the uncle asked us on our plan. He was the one who told us that it is not enough to spend just 1 day at Tioman because the next ferry would be at 11am. Let say we took that ferry, we will reach Tioman at 1pm. Then 3pm we needed to catch up back to the ferry because it is the last ferry departed back from Tioman to Tg Gemuk. Just 2 hours are totally not worth it compared to RM70 spent.

Alternatively, that uncle suggested that we go to Pantai Penyabung, not far from the Tg. Botak.
Strange but syukur, we met lots of friendly person on this journeykan...

In debt on his information and effort to promote all the interesting places here, we agreed to follow his recommendation. Before that, we took few photos at this jetty first. Well at least x dapat gi Tioman, dapat amik gambar kat Jetty pun jadilah. Ade bukti yg kami hampir2 sampai Tioman.

Prove No.1 (Banner)


Prove No.2 (Tioman's Keychain)


Last prove (Jetty n Ferry)


To be Continued....

Endau-Rompin : Bila Larut Malam (Part 2)

Back to my Endau-Rompin Trip

We had dinner at the restaurant in town and another funny thing happened. Why was our trip always involved with confusion…? And this time the confusion episode was between us and the restaurant workers. Nick ordered plain rice and chicken soup and she successfully got her meal right. Yantie who was on diet ordered for vegetable soup, just that without rice but came out to be fried vegetable sent by the waiter. How could they expected people to eat just vegetable without anything… (Unless you mean salads… that’s exceptional). Yantie called back the waiter and re-ordered and second time she got the right one.

Me…? Yes my case was more pathetic.. I asked for tom yam with plain rice plus “telur bungkus” (an omelets wrapped with mix of mince beefs, chickens, carrot and green peace in sour sauce inside). When my order arrived, I just received my tomyam with rice so I reminded the waiter on my “telur bungkus”. He replied “tengah buat”. So ok I waited and ate my rice slowly. After 10-15mins, my rice began to finish, Nick and Yantie already settled their meals but my telur bungkus still didn’t arrived. Nick and Yantie speculated that either they totally forgot my order or miss-understood that I wanted a take away (bungkus) egg. Adoi... mmg frust betul!!
I could’nt help to wait anymore, quickly finished my rice and went to counter, mentioned only what I ate and paid. Malas nak bising2…. Tired, exhausted, frustrated so tilam je yg terbayang masa nie.

Back to our room, we changed to our night outfit and everybody took their position.
I was on bed with Yantie since our room supposed to be for double only. Nick kesian kena tido bawah but she volunteered for it, so no heart feeling a…

Had a girl’s talk, gossip2 then sleep.



Nite, end of day 1.

Escape to Endau-Rompin

22nd July 2010, Day 1

I started my journey where Nick picked me up from house around 9.30am. Then we went for shopping at Jusco Balakong to buy snacks and I managed to grab 2 Padini baby-tees (on sale 2 for RM50) plus 2 caps (Denim Padini and pink from Orange).
Aduhai kopak mak noks. Belum ape2 duit dh habis shopping kat Jusco.

Since Yanti would be back from school (teaching) around 12.30pm, we wandered around the complex, window shopping until 11.30am. From Serdang, we headed to Yantie’s house at Subang Perdana, had lunch (awesomely prepared by Yantie’s mama… thanks aunty!!) and after performed Dzuhur prayer, 3 of us departed to Endau-Rompin.

I took a first task as a driver, using Plus and exited at Alor Gajah/Tampin (eh…eh macam nak balik kampong den yo..), however we took a route to Gemencheh, Rokan, Bahau and finally reached ROMPIN… ye..ye… This was super fast man, approximately 2hrs only. We could see the signboard Rompin however we felt something was not right here and that were because…………. :

i) Most of people we asked and googled mentioned that journey to Endau-Rompin via road will take fastest 4 hours. How come would we the first time driver could make it in 2hrs only.

ii) Based on our knowledge also that Endau-Rompin supposed to be near a beach area however there was no sign of beach, coconut tree or what so ever that can relate us to the beach. It was only a remote town, very small and took only 5mins to explore all the area. When I drove further, I already back on the road where the palm plantation on left and right my side (Felda area). So I don’t think that this town was commercial enough to be tourist attraction. No hotels, resort or even a homestay or budget lodge. It was definitely not the “Rompin” that we were looking for.

We quickly went to the one & only petrol station (Petronas) available there to get a map at the Mesra Shop. At this point I already started to regret why I didn’t print a map from home like usual. I did my research however was too arrogant by thinking that the journey would be easy and no map required. So sekarang merasala baru terkial2 nak beli map tp malangnya nama pun pekan kecik, map xde jual walaupun kat Petronas.

Luckily, we were truly lucky that once we went out from the Mesra Shop, we noticed that there was a large map of all roads in Malaysia posted on the glass wall just in front of our car park. Was it a coincident or maybe because there already lots of people mistakenly thought Rompin N9 as Endau-Rompin so they had put the map there…
Hhahha sendiri yg salah, nak kaitkan org lain sama.

Double lucky (could we eh..?), as while we were studying the map, there was one group of youngsters (ala2 mat rempit) approached us and asked where we wanted to go. After explained to them our destination, they gave us a very details direction to Endau-Rompin, in-fact the easy one which passed the Felda Kletong to Muadzam and then to Rompin. We did’nt have to go south to Segamat then to Muadzam because it would be more far. After thanked the mat2 motor we continued our journey based on their direction however our initial feeling were still in doubt. The road we passed through was so quiet; it was a long straight lane surrounded by palm plantation site and no others vehicle seen. At the end of the road we met the junction (as precisely described by the mat motor) and what made us relieved was when we saw a signboard to Endau-Rompin pointed to direction exactly like what the boys had told us. We were on the right track and after that our journey was smooth and easy except there were certain areas (after Muadzam) that totally out of network coverage and very deserted. I tried not to imagine what would happen if our car broke down at this place…. With no one to ask for help, no line to call, the darkness (no lamp posts!!), any bad things could happen…

Alhamdullilah even we were a bit late, we finally reached Endau-Rompin and checked in at Rompin Beach Resort (RBR) around 7.30pm. We heard the wave sounds and with the strong ocean’s wind blew, there was no way we could be mistake this time! We were positive in Endau-Rompin!! What a day and what a journey we had gone through. Yet still a great experience to have.



We got our room at the highest level of the hotel building. With no elevator, we had to use stairs from ground to 3rd floor. That’s what people said “No pain, no gain”… Our room was ok (well we don’t expected much as we got it for free), clean and comfy. We had a nice view facing the swimming pool and the sea was just at the back of the resort so we could see the beach from our balcony. We cleaned ourselves and starved, went out for dinner at 8.30pm.

Woosshh... penatnya menaip sama mcm penatnya ekspidisi kitaorg kali ni. Wanna rest la, so I stop my writing here... to be continued ok.