BOTANICAL PARK MELAKA SERVE FORESTSTAY

       Before leaving Melaka during our visit recently, we drop by at several places including Botanical Park Malacca (Melaka).

Our arrival was greeted by the manager and operators of the Foreststay park and we were served with delicious local made icecream contains variety of flavors as a welcome treatment.

 After being brief about the Park, we were than escorted to our lunch venue at the foreststay cafe and served with variety of local recipe.

Different from Homestay, Kampungstay or Townstay, Forestay presents a unique experience for visitors who wish to stay and in a peaceful tropical rainforest.

Botanical Park Malacca which provides forestay concept located just five minutes drive from Ayer keroh tol.

Formerly known as “Hutan Rekreasi Ayer Keroh”  the park spread across more than 92-hectare of forest and surrounded by more than 300 distinct of flora and fauna. It is also a home to various animals including a few species of monkey.

By only walking around the park, visitors will enjoy watching several types of monkeys swinging around the trees as well as enjoying the peaceful atmosphere around the park.

The park provided visitors and tourist with a comfortable and reasonable price of chalet and dorm from RM35 to RM150 pernight for each person who wanted to overnight and experience the foreststay.

As for those who like camping, a wide area of campsite that can accommodate up to 700 people is also available at RM3 pernight for each person.

Various activities including jungle trekking, jogging, camping, motivational activities buggy ride are made available here.

As soon as we finished our lunch, we were taken to visit the surrounding and try a few activities such as paintball shooting and survivor programme.

As for the book lover, you can visit and confine yourself at Kampung Buku (Book Village) which is situated in the middle of this park.

Listed as no two of the Book Village in Malaysia and no five in Asia not only provide reading material but equipped with internet and provide meeting room and including a venue for book launching.

More than 15000 books from local and international publishers can be found here and it operates from Tuesday to Sunday at 9am to 6pm.

An attempt to watch the meteor shower at Broga

         Another little crazy fun adventure with the Nutters, a night camping at Broga (again) and this time with an attempt to watch the meteor shower (predicted) on last Friday night. The hike also has actually made me witnessed a strong little girl climbed together with us. (One of our friend brought her daughter this time).

At 10pm ++, 13 of us marched towards Broga Hill with the head lamp and our backpack behind. On the way up, there were several young campers scattered around, waiting with their camera and telescope in hand, hoping to witness the meteor and perhaps to take some good photo. 

Reaching at the peak we start setting up our tents while others making hot drinks. Earlier, there was some cloudy covering the sky but later the stars slowly appear and brighten the sky. We spent the night chitchatting, selfieing, photographing, stargazing, drinking coffee and napping, most of us decided to stay outside the tents. Some of us was fortunate enough to spot the meteor shower. We were rewarded with an amazing view and peaceful night until a bunch of hikers start climbing up as early as 5am, making noise and put us back into reality. 

By 7am, the crowded is over flowing, we quickly pack and start heading down. While walking down, my eyes was offered with an amazing view from such a low hill. Lush valleys of rain forest and towns with the backdrop of mountains from the distance can be seen vibrantly.  

 Reaching at the carpark,  while the rest decided to go home, the four of us ready and gear up heading to Lepoh falls to continue the next adventure.

Hiking, Trekking, Abseiling, Picnic

1/ May/2014

A day at Sungai Pisang (Banana river)


I wasn't planning on going out today, but a phone call and invitation from a friend yesterday mentioned waterfall, so I was in. Sungai Pisang is not far, so I thought why not jump in and drag my son together, this way we both will get a chance to spend quality time and doing activity together. Beside, it would put him closer to the nature and hopefully he'll be interested in outdoor activities rather than investing his time facing all the gadgets in his room which most of the time annoyed me.

Since its a labor day and a world public holiday, so I went packing the necessary stuff and told my son to get his things ready. The next thing, we were hitting the road as early as 6am. We gather at the nearest petrol station along the Gombak highway, refill for breakfast before proceed our journey..