We started our journey early in the morning where Lina took us around 8am. After picked up Kak Yatie n Kayrie at Cheras we headed to Jalan Duta and exited to Plus Highway. Since each of us did’nt took any breakfast yet, we stopped at Sg Buloh R&R. It was Maulidur Rasul holiday (birthday of Muhamad, our prophet), so that area was quite packed with people especially those who were just back from the Maulidur Rasul Assembly at Putrajaya.
When we saw one uncle sat lonely at one table and almost finished his breakfast, Lina quickly asked him to reserve the table for us… huhuhu that was how we managed to get our seats.
Once everybody full, we took some photos at the R&R and then continue our journey.
We had such a fun and errr…. I would say informative journey as for this time, our trip member consisted of people from different background such as Kayrie, a teacher and my sister, Aishah a doctor to be. If everybody thought that Im talkative and non-stop “penglipulara”, you should meet Kayrie. With her experiences as a teacher plus reference from Aishah, she had inserted us with so much knowledge related to everything we saw along the journey. Ade jer pop-quiz yg nk ditanya....
Example : What is the scientific name of buffalo?
What is the acceleration of this motorcycle? Sekali Adnan Sempit da… Steady la bro!!
Finally after few time changes of driver we reached Kedah, but not yet Perlis as we stopped first for lunch at Gurun R&R around 2pm.
You might wonder why I took photo at the toilet signboard, like there was no other interesting places there. Please look at my background; it was the Gunung Jerai that I wanted to highlight to you all.
I rarely reached here, my first time actually. So bolela kasi taruk gambar ini sbgai kenangan.
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Amik gambo lagi kat perkarangan R&R. The more we headed to North, the hotter we felt. No wonder it been called GURUN (desert), as the weather was so hot n dry.
Ni gambar mahal….
I never thought that Perlis was so far, I estimated the journey would take longest 6 hours however due to frequent stops at R&R we reached the exit to Alor Setar nearly 4.30pm. En Asri the homestay owner already called me numerous time since I promised him that I will be at Kangar around 3pm. Tersasar nampaknya..
A glimpse of Kedah…. Sawah padi yg membuatkan kami suma excited
We met En Asri at Kangar, (luckily Kayrie mmg arif area Kangar so it’s quite easy for us to find the place). Then he brought us to our homestay at Taman Hijriah. It was a single terrace house at corner lot with 2 rooms and 1 toilet. Very comfortable with suitable price.
Once payment made, we quickly changed our cloth and got ready to Gua Kelam. Its already 6pm so we didn’t know either we could make it or not however since our time was very tight and limited we just proceed with the plan. Sempat x sempat asal dpt jejak kaki amik2 gambar pun ok.
Kelam kabut kemas barang…. (cantikkan homestay kami??)
Ok suma siap dgn baju kununnya nak trus terjun sungai kat Gua Kelam
Ok lets go!!!
Antara pemandangan menarik along the journey to Gua Kelam at Kaki Bukit :
Im interested with the kubah masjid nie, mcm buntut pemadam.
OMG, 10km more… we passed through the estate, woods and jln yg sunyi sepi dkat2 maghrib so frankly it was a bit creepy jgk la.
Alhamdulilah kami sampai jua walaupun ade lost skit. Berkat tanya org kampong….
Melangkah dgn penuh bergaya ke pintu masuk gua
There were few peoples who just arrived the same time like us, unfortunately we saw that the entrance to the cave was already closed. At first we thought we already late but when we drew nearer we saw this sign :
WTH?? X de hari lain ke nak wat maintenance. Dah la dtg dr jauh, tgk siap ade train nak tour cave teruja dibuatnya. Nk buat mcmmana xde rezeki. Jadi we just amik2 gambo je la. Nak mandi dh petang sgt… nyamuk2 dah start mencari mangsa, monyet2 pun dah berkeliaran
Gua Kelam History
X dpt masuk, amik gambo kat entrance pun jadiler
Lina nk merayap ke mana lah kt blakang tu...
Sempena Maulidur rasul, menghayati kejadian nabi menerima wahyu pertama di Gua Hira’
Its already dark, everybody mula rasa x selesa jadi cepat2 la naik keta balik ke homestay. Sempat lagi baca ayat2 ape yg patut, ye la mana tau coz maghrib2 kat dlm hutan takut nanti ade “benda” yg follow ker. Nasib baik xde kejadian yg x di ingini berlaku, its just that I thought I saw “something” crossed the road when we already on the way out from Gua Kelam. Lina was driving while I was on the next seat, since no body said anything I assumed maybe it was my sight problem (it was very hot and Im tired, dizzy so maybe I imagined it…). But that was it, anything from that NO… alhamdullilah.
