Happy Mooncake Festival

A belated one to all my friends.

Love this combination of traditional + modern packaging from 喜月堂.

P/s: Will be away to Germany for about 2 weeks.

Phi Phi Island Village

Today, we will travel from Krabi to Phi Phi Island. The map below shows you the distance between these two islands. White doted line indicates the journey by ferry which takes approximately 1.5 hours (42km). Whereby yellow doted line indicates journey from the pier to our hotel by local long tail boat (approx. 20 minutes). Being a small island, it has relatively lesser choices of accommodation. Either you go for the budget or luxury. After going through lots of research, I decided to spoil myself once in a blue moon and booked Phi Phi Island Village, Beach Resort & Spa which ranks #1 in tripadvisor.com!

On the ferry…

Local long tail boat

After spending the whole morning travelling on boat, we have finally arrived at the heaven. View right in front of the hotel.

We were greeted by the friendly staffs with warm towel and refreshing ice blended pineapple juice at the lobby, while waiting for them to check-in.

Later, one of the staff showed us the direction to our room. We were praying hard to have our room being upgraded like in Krabi but too bad our wish didn’t come true. *_*

All the rooms here are individually built for privacy purposes so you won’t hear people banging the wall or screaming next door. Anyway, this is our Superior Bungalow room.

The best thing I like about this resort is their emphases on detailed decoration.

The laundry basket...

Face towel...

Beach towel...

And amenities…all decorated with freshly picked flowers. I must also say the coconut bath gel inside the bottle smells sooooo good.

Infinity swimming pool with jacuzzi

800m long private beach

Palm trees surrounding the resort

Restaurant overlooking the beach

Me, waiting for food

Excellent resort that worth the money to try. I did not regret my choice and I have started to miss this beautiful place....

Krabi

The first stop for our recent trip to Thailand. Krabi is more to a beach holiday destination (like Penang in Malaysia) where you can find uncountable beach resorts along the shore, or some just few minutes walk from the hotel. We had a good hotel deal booked via airasia.com for Ananta Burin Resort, a pretty new resort located between the Nopparat Thara Beach and Ao Nang Beach. Getting around this small area is pretty easy. Either by Tuk Tuk which cost 20 Thai Bath per person/ per way, rent a motorcycle, or you walk.

We didn’t know until we arrived that we have got upgraded to Deluxe Room. What a surprise! (Plus point to travel during low season. We later found out the whole hotel has less than 10 rooms being occupied, so why not upgrade us?)

We have got towel decoration in the room everyday.

Swimming pool view from our room where most of the time no one is using it and it has become our own private pool. If you are rich and you are lazy to walk, you may also consider the ground floor Deluxe Direct Pool Access Room. (open the balcony door and you can jump straight to the pool)

Chilling around the pool

Weather was bad on the second day we arrived so we didn’t spend time on the beach. Alternatively, we go for something more exciting.

Water rafting in the RAIN!!! River water splashing and heavy rain pouring on to our body, everyone had a freezing experience. Being my third water rafting trip, I must say I like the rain too because it helps to generate faster flowing rapids. You will have an option to choose for 5km or 9km rafting. To me, the first 5km is just a total warm up for beginner. The rest of my raft mate (being their 1st time) stopped at 5km, leaving my friend and I, with two other instructors to continue the journey. From here, the real fun starts with lots of turning, sloping, banging onto the rocks. Whooo Hoooo!!!!

We have got a ground package which includes 9km rafting + elephant trekking for 2000 Thai Bath (Original price was 2,600 TB. Another plus point to travel during low season, everything cheap cheap ^_^). When I told my friends I went for elephant trekking, 5 of out 4 will ask: “smelly or not ah?” Still can bear the smell lar…cause I think the elephant I ride on had a Johnson & Johnson baby bath. *_^

We had another day for island hoping to Hong Island. Weather was very moody, so am I.

Next up: Highlight of the tour, Phi Phi island.

Little Surprise from Scotland

I found this lovely postcard lying in my mail box and I suddenly felt so warmth when I saw it was from my old buddy, sending it all the way from Edinburgh, Scotland. Although life is busy and we hardly talk, but I believe friendship in our heart never fade.

" Friends will always see you through…

believe in the things you want to do…

feel happy when your dreams come true…

That’s just the way friends are.

Friends will always be right there…

with wisdom, faith and strength to share…

with love that shows how much they care…

That’s just the way friends are. "

Thank you dear Stella….

Pulau Ketam

Had a weekend break to Pulau Ketam for the fourth time. It is by far my favorite day trip spot in west Malaysia for seafood, cycling and my new hobby, photo shooting. Unfortunately, we have chosen a lousy restaurant this time and the seafood was not up to expectation as it always does. Anyway, had fun with the girls cycle around the fish village, snapshot of everyone's happy face ^_^

Useful Information:

How to get there?

- Take KTM Sentul - Klang line. Head towards Klang direction and get out at the last stop named Pelabuhan Klang.

- Short walk to the "Jetty to Pulau Ketam". Here you can choose to take air-conditioned ferry or open air big boat. Return ticket cost around RM15. (Ferry is faster but I prefer the open air big boat where you can feel the breeze while enjoy the scenery along the journey)

Getting around the place:

As this is a fish village where houses and shop lots are build on stilt, there are only 2 ways to explore the village: - walk or cycle. Bicycle rental is easily found. RM5 per day and you may bargain if you rent in group.

Sawadeekha

Finally I am back from the land of smiles, Thailand. In fact, I have came back for more than a week now but 4 days Raya break had keep me busy with day trip + shopping + makan. Life is wonderful and fun, isn’t it?

Anyway, here’s a glance of my trip to Southern Thailand which covers:

This trip is all about sun, sea and sand. I was quite worry about the weather prior to the trip seeing that it is the rainy season now in Thailand but thanks to the God of the Sun, he was really kind and generous to show us sunshine whenever we hang out at the beach and rains at the right time when we were indoor. No doubt, I am having very tan skin now. Towards to the end of the trip, locals have been speaking Thai to me *_*. I bought something from Guardian yesterday and the cashier was doubt that I am a Malaysian and I purposely said: “Alar kak, aku Malaysian LARRRR….”. Even my housemate is teasing me these few days with a new name given by her, ‘Caramel’ because she said my skin tone looks alike. Well, doesn't sounds too bad, at least she never name me something like 'Hainan Kopi'.