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Sungai Lembing is a small town located around an hour drive from Kuantan. It is a famous tourist spot especially during these few years where one gets to enjoy the mother nature while relaxing their mind away from hustle and bustle of the city. Sungai Lembing is a small town surrounded by mountains and rivers, it used to be famous with tin mine too! During our time at Sungai Lembing, we booked a Rainbow Waterfall package online. Click here for more details (not an advertisement lol). The gathering point is at the hawker centre located beside the main street. At 6.30 o’clock in the morning, the hawker centre is full with tourists going for either Rainbow Waterfall or Lembing Hill. Met our guide, hopped onto the modified 4-wheel drive and started our journey to Rainbow Waterfall! The 4-wheel drive journey estimated to be around 1hour but we spent slightly more than it @.@ the driver is abit too “cautious” in driving thus the journey is less excited but safe enough lol....

Amazing month of May. I have completed the 21km Broooks Kuantan Half Marathon, just 2 weeks after the successful hiking in Majestic Mount Kinabalu Sabah. The official result timing for the run is 2 hour 26 minutes. It was my second competitive run of the year, and the result had turned out to be better than expected. For race results and e-certificate downloads, please click  here . Good to Run! (Photo source: Dusty Monkey )  The Brooks Kuantan registration had started even before the Chinese New Year in the early month of Jan. My brothers, cousin and I were able to get together in the CNY and registered for the 21km run. The pricing for normal period is rm70 with additional rm3 online processing fee. 10th May, we’ve reached a day earlier to collect the race kit at Teruntum Mini Zoo. It was our first time here. The mini zoo is located beside the popular Teluk Cempedak Beach. Many veteran runners were spotted in the Saturday afternoon greeting their old mate...

Click Here for full itinerary. 7-eleven is always our first choice when we are travelling either local or abroad. During our time at Taiwan , we fall in love with their 7-eleven! 7-eleven in Taiwan is like following you everywhere, it is so easy for you to bump into a 7-eleven and there are so many different kind of food sold there! Hehe, here we recommend some food or snacks that one should not miss when visit to a 7-eleven at Taiwan! (1) Braised pork rice & tea boiled egg  ( 卤肉饭 & 茶叶蛋 )! We tried few braised pork rice during our stay at Taiwan, including the instant one from 7-eleven! Just reheat it in the oven and ready to be served! We bought it at DaJia ( 大甲 ) Train station and had it during our way back to TaiPei ( 台北 ). Came with a “basket”  :) Cannot resist our temptation to buy a tea boiled egg ( 茶叶蛋 ) from 7-eleven every time when we stepped into it! They boiled the eggs in a pot, so the smell is everywhere around the shop!...

Click Here for full itinerary. Hello gloomy and wet TaiPei! On the last day of our Taiwan trip, we went for PANDA! 1600 Pandas World Tour – TaiPei (1600   熊猫世界之旅   –   台北 ) was first being exhibited in France on year 2008 in collaboration of WWF 35 th  Anniversary of establishment in France. In order to create awareness of protecting wild animal, WWF worked together with a French artist, Paulo Grangeon to have a paper panda exhibition, named after “Pandas on Tour”. The first paper panda exhibition was held at Eiffel Tower, Paris. Due to the over whelming response, “Pandas on Tour” started its journey in Europe where the exhibition was held at more than 30 main cities in Europe. There are total 1600 paper pandas being exhibited where this figure represents remaining wild pandas in the world. For “Pandas on Tour” – TaiPei station, there are additional 200 paper Taiwan black bears being exhibited in order to create awareness of Taiwan black bear conserv...

Click Here for full itinerary. After staying a night at FengJia (逢甲) , we moved north back to Taipei ( 台北 ) by train. We stopped by at DaJia ( 大甲 ) before reaching TaiPei to hunt for some food and loiter around. Information board showing direction to Jenn Lann Temple ( 镇澜宫 ) at the exit of DaJia railway station. This temple considered is the biggest attraction of this small town with only around 5minutes walk from the railway station. Jenn Lann Temple ( 镇澜宫 ) was built over 200 years ago which attracts thousands of worshippers to come to pay respect to Mazu ( 妈祖 ), known as the chief of all goddess. This is the most famous Mazu temples in Taiwan, because of its age and also its beautiful cravings around the temple. Jenn Lann Temple ( 镇澜宫 ) during day time. The temple is located on DaJia Old Street ( 大甲老街 ). Jenn Lann Temple ( 镇澜宫 ) at night. This old truck is a joss paper ( 金银纸 ) selling truck! So cute lol. Lantern decorations outside Jen...