Felda Residence Hot Spring Sungai Klah Sungkai Perak

This time, let's explore a hidden gem in Felda Sungkai that is the Hot Spring Sungai Klah. Spending a night or two in one of the hotel room or villa/bungalow with 1-3 rooms will allow you to enjoy the hot bath in the pool. If you choose to stay in the hotel room (2 storey building), you will have to go to the main pool to enjoy the hot/cold bath. However, your willingness to spend a bit more out of your pockets will give you the opportunity to experience a private hot/cold bath plus jacuzzi at home (the villa/bungalow). Just a few steps from your room or living hall, you can spend all day long in the private pool. I love it so much!

A bath tub is also provided in the master bedroom's bathroom. It's quite luxury...But, I really enjoy it. The whole family have fun at the villa. Nevertheless, my boy still want to go to the main pool. Yeah, i understand that the main pool is larger than the private pool, no doubt about that.

There are two main pool at the hot spring; one with the hot water and the other with cold water. My boy also enjoy boiling egg at the egg boiling station. My parents take the opportunity to put their leg into the hot water...having foot spa...hehe...

Since there are not many stalls that sell proper dinner or lunch, the Meranti Cafe that is located within the residence also offer foods for the visitors at a reasonable rate. You can choose from its menu in ala carte or buffet. Convenience stores are available nearby the residence, selling tits bits, traditional food, ice cream, local fruits, etc.

Philea Resort and Spa Malacca

Resort made from log

The resort is located at Lot 2940 Jalan Ayer Keroh Off Jalan Plaza Tol Melaka. Immediately after exit the Ayer Keroh's toll, take the left turn. The resort is built next to the Butterfly and Reptiles Park Malacca. 

I would say this resort is unique. Why? As highlighted in its official website, http://www.phileahotel.com, the resort is the first and largest log resort in Malaysia. It offers a calm and privacy holiday for those who need one. Since we stay in Kuala Lumpur, we will choose this resort whenever we need a short vacation nearby our place. It takes about 2 hours journey from Kuala Lumpur.

Love the fascinating view around the resort

 Visitors' cars are parked at the designated parking near the lobby. From the lobby, visitors may take the buggy or walk to the assigned cabin or room. My spouse prefer to walk around the resort to enjoy the beautiful scenery around there. My son and i enjoy the buggy ride. So, sometime we take the buggy, the other time we walk.

Beautiful pool

My son fall in love with the swimming pool. With no interest in pool before, he become motivated to swim in this pool having seen the beautiful layout of the pool surrounded by man made waterfall. We have some privacy there as there were not many people at the pool. Since we didn't expect to use the swimming pool, we didn't bring our swimming costume. Here there go extra cash spend for the unexpected cause. We shopped at Aeon Malacca. Not that far from the resort, yet the heavy traffic really caused inconveniences.

Overall, we really enjoy our short vacation at the resort. There are several types of room to choose from (e.g. pavilion room, Philea Suite). I admit the price is a bit expensive. However, this can be compensated with the experiences that we got there. Philea Resort and Spa Malacca offers different experiences than the typical hotel rooms and environment (e.g. in the city center).

Room for 3 persons

In term of food, i would rather suggest visitors to eat outside the hotel, as the food taste in our opinion, is just so-so. If you are keen on having a great taste of food, you may want to travel outside the resort, for example, go to Umbai for tasteful grill fish and other seafoods  or Malacca central for traditional Malacca foods. However, you have to forgo the time spent at the resort. So, choose wisely. We definitely will come back for another short vacation in the near future.

Rabbit Park Shah Alam Selangor

Located within the area of Giant Hypermarket Section 13 Shah Alam, this small park is great for toddlers who are really appreciate this cute tiny creatures. Most toddlers love animals, right? With fee of RM3 per person, i think this place is good for a very short visit, especially for those who does not have pets at home, yet, the child love animals so much (i wonder if you can spend your money every week to go to zoo to watch the animals..heheh...). So, for me, this is one of the alternative. Mommies can also spend some time to shop at Giant, while their kids enjoying themselves at the park with guardian, of course. I heard that this park also provides overnight place for rabbits, in case the owners wanna go outstation. Great hah!

BOH Tea Plantation @ Cameron Highland, Pahang

Located at Cameron Highland, Pahang, BOH Tea Plantation offers another attraction for those who visit to this premier hill resort. Even though I had several times been in Cameron Highland, this is my first time there. I always stop at Cameron Bharat Tea Shop, to have some light refreshments before continue my journey to Brinchang. But this time, I had the chance to visit Boh Tea Plantation instead. The route to the plantation is quite challenging. But, once you reach the plantation, you may have some rest there, visit the factory to see the process of tea production, feel the calmness and beautiful scenery out of the tea plantation while tasting the great tea at the tea shop, and even shop some souveniours there. There’s so much variety of tea you can try (original, mint, herb…can’t remember all). I wish I can be there everyday…having my tea time with my love one there…Hot tea served with muffin, sandwiches, pie, cakes, yum..yum..yum...Can’t wait our the visit. Maybe to bring other family members together.

I wish I can visit the factory on that day, unfortunately, the factory was closed. So sad…huhuhu…and I wish I can climb the hill to see the larger view of the plantation from the top of the hill (look-point), but with my condition of 2+ months pregnant during that time, just can’t afford it. Even the journey to the BOH tea plantation (from the main road) had made me feel a bit dizzy…Hmm…but, it can be compensated with the great taste of BOH tea at the tea shop on that day.

As alternative, you can visit the Sungai Palas Boh Tea Centre, near Equatorial Hotel at Brinchang. That is my aim for the next visit to the Cameron Highland.

The MINES Resort City Tour @ The MINES Shopping Mall

My husband and I had great experience yesterday from the MINES Resort City Tour @ Mines Shopping Mall. Got the opportunity to enjoy the sightseeing cruise for almost 1 ½ hours. Just pay RM60 for two persons, you’ll be cruising from the MINES Cruise main jetty, to the water lift (new experience for us), and then down to the north lake. We saw Palace Beach and Spa Resort, it's really beautiful. Nearby the lake, we had fishfeeding. We can see so many fish in the lake. We had the cruise with another two families. Their children really enjoy the moment here.

After seeing the beautiful scenery from the golfclub, Palace Beach and Spa, several VIPs’ private bungalows, including our our former Prime Minister’s mansion, we headed to The Palace of the Golden Horses, the six-start hotel. according to the tour-guide, the rate for 1 night at the hotel is around RM600-RM700. So expensive...But, I'm sure the service and facilities are superb...six-star...Then we made a U-turn, to continue our journey to the south lake. More VIPs’ mansions and apartments by the lakeside can be seen from the south lake tour. Not much interesting things explored from the South lake tour.


My new experience from the tour was the “WATER LIFT”. Before this, I had several times enjoyed the sighseeing cruise, but during that time, there's no water lift and the tour was rather limited. wanna know more about the water lift? Click here: http://www.minescruise.com/water_lift.htm

Other packages are also available to choose from. For example, Sunset dining cruise, message cruise, etc. We started our cruise at about 11.30 am and finish at almost 1 pm.

"Pekan Rabu" or Wednesday Market @ Alor Setar, Kedah

Every time I went back to my hometown at Perlis, I must visit this place, Pekan Rabu. This is one of the popular places in Kedah. Pekan Rabu is located at the centre of Alor Setar town. The place is well known for their traditional items such as foods, clothes, etc. and is very popular among both local people and also tourists from all over the countries.

Traditional foods (Kuih tradisional) such as dodol, kuih karas, peneram, bahulu, etc. are among the hot items sold here. With the new business complexes built surrounding the Pekan Rabu, the variety of items sold increased. Now, there are plenty of shops selling different kind of textiles, tudung, songkok, traditional clothes such as baju kurung and baju melayu. It’s more or less like Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, Kuala Lumpur, which is also known as the Heaven of Textiles.

So, now, people who live nearby, for example, Perlis and Penang, they may choose to go to Kuala Lumpur or just shop at Alor Setar, which is nearer to their places.

Pekan Rabu will become more busy during public holidays, festive seasons such Hari Raya Puasa and Hari Raya, and weekends. You can see that many outsiders, from other states went back to their hometown, and shop their things at Pekan Rabu. This is the place where they come to get their materials for the preparation for Hari Raya.

Trishaw Ride Around the City of Malacca

Trishaw Ride? I love it so much!

Suddenly, I feel like I wanna have a ride on a trishaw. So, my husband took me to the City of Malacca on the Chinese New Year Holiday. Wow, there were so many people in town. Most of them are tourists. Our first destination was the Maritim Museum, which I had written about it before. Then, we had a tour on a trishaw. Tour around the City of Malacca. What is so special about the trishaw ride at Malacca? Here, you can see many beautifully decorated trishaw with different theme. Just choose which one you like the most. The tour become more meaningful when the trishaw ride includes a tour guide given by the trishaw’s owner. They were all well-trained by a tourism body to deliver the tour guide to the tourists.

We were brought to the Ethnics Museum, Dataran Pahlawan, Kota A Famosa, etc. What a wonderful moment I had on that day. With the beautiful decorated trishaw, riding with your loved one…you’ll feel really great! I wish I can be there again in the future.

Of course there are many other places of attraction around Malacca, but we straight away go to the city because we want to have our lunch at Umbai after that. As usual, love the “Ikan Bakar @ Umbai” grilled fish together with other seafood such as prawns, crabs and cuttlefish. The sea foods here are fresh…and delicious…and one more thing, the price is also reasonable as compared to seafood in KL.

Due to heavy traffic on that day, we didn’t have enough time to go to Mini Asian, Malacca Zoo, Crocodile Park, etc. Even though I had already been there a few years back, still wanna see if there is a change or new attraction available at those places. Hope we’ll find some other time to go there.