Weekender's Escapade

Every semester, me and my friends tried to find some free time to go on a trip together. This time, the Lost World of Tambun in Ipoh catches our attention. After much planning and booking, we managed to find a weekend where we can all have fun and a little stress relief.

As with all our previous trip, we drive ourselves to Ipoh because it's so much easier for us to go around the city when we have our own transportation. The drive from UPM took around 3 hours time. We rent a house for three days from a home-stay company that gives cheap and affordable price for students like us. Once we arrived at the house, all of us immediately go to sleep as we were all tired and weary from the drive.

The next day, we get up early in the morning to beat the rush at Tambun ticket counter. We went to breakfast first as the food in Tambun is a little pricey. After that, we started to feel the excitement of spending the whole day inside Tambun swimming and playing around. The first place that we go to is of course, the Water Park. There's a beach and some water slides in which we all go to. There's also a place specially for kids.

Lost World of Tambun has lots of other attractions besides the Water Park. After some time swimming and playing at the Water Park, we decided to walk around the place and go to other parks there is here. As we walk around, we came across the Tiger Valley first. There's a tiger feeding show happening. The park attendants are throwing meat to the tigers and the tigers jump to catch it. It's such an amusement to see the tigers so eager to eat.

Next, we went to the Tin Valley. There, we learn a little history about tin mining that is a popular industry in Ipoh. There's life-sized 'palung', an original gravel pump monitor and an area where we get to experience 'dulang' washing. There's also description boards and a screen which displayed a video about the history of mining.

After that, we went to the Lost World Petting Zoo. I for one am very excited to go to this zoo because I love watching animals go about their habitat. There are lots of animals from almost 55 species such as rabbits, tortoise, marmoset, birds, snakes, and many more. We get to pet the animals with the help and supervision of the attendants.

Then, we decided to go back to the water. But before that, we went to the Amusement Park first. There are a number of fun and adventure rides available at the park. I didn't go to the rides as I tend to get dizzy and might vomit when riding these rides. Finally, before we go, we went to the Lost World Hot Springs and Spa. There we dip ourselves into the hot springs and unwind ourselves after almost a day of swimming and playing. The hot water felt very good.

I'm very happy that me and my friends have a chance to go to this trip. It's such a fun trip and we all get to release our stress and tension and just have quality time together. I wish we'll have another chance to go to another fun trip again.

Tired but happy faces in front of the entrance.

Posing in front of the Lost World signboard. Me the photographer.

After over a month of planning, finally my mother and my aunt found a suitable date for all of us to go for this trip. I was on a semester break and my cousins 'Bang Chik' and 'Ainina' also on school break at that day. So we decided to take that chance to spend some quality time together before we go back to our busy and hectic life. The date is 3rd December 2010, we drove from my house at Bangi around 6.00 pm. The journey take around 1 hour 35 minutes for about 125 kilometer and of course the only one that 'alive' (not sleeping) along the journey is me the driver and my father. Maybe because the car is very comfortable. We arrived around 8.00 pm and as soon as possible we go to the hotel that we have book, 'Hotel Seri Costa'. Rest comes first as we had a lot of things planned for this trip.

After having a good night sleep we go to our first Malacca's attraction, the Taming Sari tower. There we took the ride to look at the view of Malacca city from the height of 80 meters  We went there early because the place full of tourists even before 11.00 am. We walked there because the distance is not too far from our hotel. At first we felt very nervous to take the ride because the look from below the tower is very scary, but when we're at the highest point of the tower that feeling is gone. We were hypnotized by the beautiful view of Malacca city from the sky. From there we can see all the tall buildings in Malacca.

After having the best view of Malacca city we decided to just randomly walk around the city. The first place that catches our attention is the Maritime museum for all the historic ships. But then, we decided not to go in because we do not have much time to get in there and there's a lot of places we want to go. So we decided to just take pictures outside the museum. Then, we continued our journey to 'Muzium Seni Bina'. There we found a lot of historical items displayed inside and outside the museum like the train and airplane replica.

Then we went to the A' Famosa the Portuguese fort in Malacca. After taking lots of pictures at the building we went to the Dataran Pahlawan Melaka Megamall for some shopping. That is my sister's favourite place in Malacca. There we shop till we drop, especially my sister and my mom. When my sisters too tired to walk we decide to go the last attraction that we can go that night, The Eye of Malacca. There we take boat ride cruising along Malacca River at night. Surprisingly the night view is more beautiful than in the morning. Along the river bank there a lot of colorful neon light decorating the night view of Malacca River.

Even though we had a joyful trip we need to go back to the reality. Home is always the place to be in the world. After all the adventures we had for one day in Malacca we decide to go back early on the next morning. So to anyone who want to went for a holiday and at the same time appreciating our heritage and history you can go to Malacca the heritage city.