To summarize the way …
Kuala Lumpur (KL) – Karak Highway – East Coast Expressway (ECE) – Kuantan (EXIT 833) – Sungai Lembing
Driving is the best way to reach there. Please make sure your car has enough petrol to return from Sungai Lembing because the town has only one gas pump which operate from morning until sunset.
The signboard of Sg Lembing are visible enough to be noted." be careful when drive, got sheep & goat at the road side, they will come out suddenly.
the tunnel we pass through when on the way go sg. lembing
around 5 somethings we reached there, after check in to the house we rent, we have our dinner in the stall. the house we rent is last time the local drama "The Legacy of the lost love" firm there. we rent 2 room, 1 is aircond room for RM60 per night, & 1 is fan room for RM50 per night. the owner is fatt gor (013-9881156), we have asked him to arrange the trip to Rainbow Waterfall for next day also.
View when we enter the Sg. Lembing
The Legacy of the lost love
dinner in this stall
Since we dint have include meal in the package, so we just can order the simple food from the stall, we have order the famous tomato sauce mee, chili mee, wat dan hor, san zao mai, special fried rice also.. we realize that the tomato sauce mee was the most delicious 1, recommend to try it. We have order liang teh (herba tea) for everyone, total the dinner only cost us RM33.70. each person around RM3.75 only.
After that, while we are waiting for buy the famous roasted pork , we have go uncle shop to buy ABC, RM1.50 for each. (Food stall uncle told us that the shop only open around 7 o 8pm, when u c the signboard on the bulb, means the stall is start doing business already)
Around 8pm, We saw the shop have on the light, we quickly go buy the pork, there already have few buyer waiting for purchase the roasted pork, mostly is traveler. the shop beside is a restaurant, you can order pork from the shop & having dinner there also.We have bought RM10 of the roasted pork, is quite delicious, crispy & soft.
there is no night life there, we went back to house around 8.30pm, take bath & start our card games (routine activities in every trip.. haha)
Day 2 ~ ~ adventurous day - Rainbow waterfall
Only by 4wd drive we can reach the Rainbow waterfall, with a simple wearing, short pants & slipper, we start our journey there (RM32 per person, not food provided) Uncle son, Elvin, with his 2 friends as our tour guide bring us to the waterfall. we depart around 6.30am, the journey took 45 minutes to reach the downhill.
begin our journey...
nature creature in forest
There have many people already start their pace ahead to the waterfall, having human jam on the journey. its took around 1 hour to reach the waterfall. advisable to wear suitable shoes to the waterfall, the rock there is very slippery.. few of our slipper have spoil when hiking to the waterfall & also slip & fall down....=.="
When we reach the waterfall, there already have many people sit 1 side of the hill, because rainbow can see very clearly from the side. We have saw more than 1 rainbow there, its amazing.. the higher u climb, u can c more & clearly of the rainbow. the waterfall look huge too.. recommend to people who did not go to this place, should have a visit there & grab this chance to enjoy the beautiful of nature in Malaysia.
around 1pm, we went back & having our lunch.. the restaurant food not really delicious .. is quite funny our conversation with the waitress. we ask the girl, what food can recommend, then the girl said "fried 1 lo"... "got what kind of fried?" we ask. "fried 1 la.." the girl answer... =.=" when we order the drink, "what drink you can recommend?" we ask.. "drink 1 lo.." the girl said.... =.=" at last, we order fried mihun, fried kuey tiao, fried limbing mee, lime juice, cost RM28.50). we all dint feel full of those meal, yee von have bought the waffer that selling beside restaurant, it quite delicious, so all of us went to buy the waffer to fill up our stomach again. ^.^
After that, we start our town tour in Sg Lembing... First destination was the Crystal Museum. Entrance fee RM2/person. All the marvelous collection of crystal by an old man who he was working as tin miner during his younger days. Second destinations, we go across the Hanging Bridge & walk around the opposite side of the town. No much things we can see there, so we headed to Sg Lembing Museum , which just located 5 minutes from the bridge. All the attraction in town is really near, can reach easily. The museum is used to be the mining manager's bungalow. It houses mining tools & equipments, mining attires, dioramas, process of mining & etc. Entrance fee is free, just need to register. Recommend to people who did not went to Sg lembing before can pay a visit to this museum, you will know the history of Sg. Lembing & mining.
Muzium Sg Lembing
Next place we visit was the Sg Pandan Waterfall, it tooks around 1/2 hour to reach there from Sg Lembing. Entrance fee RM2/person. Business hour for this waterfall is till 6pm, we reach there already 5pm, but we choose to walk in too. The waterfall look grand and have a hanging bridge above the waterfall. Many family or group tours went there for picnic, swimming, play water or relax.
Sg Pandan Waterfall
We have our dinner in Restaurant Hoover, RM58.20. we have order "san shui wild boar meat", "san shui fei zhou yu", "san shui tofu", "san shui gu lou yok", "san shui malay kangkong", & "san shui tea", Although we have order the meal since lunch time, but we still have to wait a certain of time for the meal. The food still ok, but service slow, count wrong bill, luckily we have check the bill, or else, they charge us more for the food.
After meal, we went back early to rest & prepare for tomorrow destination, that was Panorama hill, we plan to hike the hill start from 5am, because we want to catch the sunrise.
Day 3 ~~ Beautiful scenery - Panorama Hill
Chit-Chat whole night, wake up at 4.30am, we just slept for 2 hours.. (every trip also no enough sleep. @.@).
Around 5am, we start our hiking activities. Many people already hike in front of us, becomes human jam.. must bring torchlight, some light food & water. It tooks around 45 minutes to reach the top. (depend on the individual stamina and speed).
Panorama Hill is about 290m from sea level. It is a nice place to catch beautiful sunrise and seas of clouds. but that time is starting raining, we wait till 7am and decided to go down from hill. We no have chance to enjoy the beautiful of sunrise.. but... very lucky was .. we can saw the Rainbow . It formed half circle up above the sky after raining. it is really amazing and lovely... ^.^
Our breakfast for that day will be the famous "zhu chang fen", small stall at the road side, very easy can find the stall, because there have a banner stated the name, the "zhu chang fen" just have few choices - vegetarian; egg; prawn, spicy... if not mistaken, only have this 4 choices. The making of this "zhu chang fen" is using traditional way, take a bit long times, but the taste quite special, and cheap, worth to try.
We check out around 11am and depart to charas cave which located not far from the town. parking fee RM2 per entrance. To who wish to climb in to the cave, entrance fee RM2 per person. Before reach the caverns inside the top part of the hill, we needed to climb a short flight of steep stairs. The cave is quite big, but not well in maintenance. Certain part of the caves is quite windy.
After this, we leave Sg lembing and headed to next destination - Teluk Cempedak beach. Sunny day, hot but quite windy also. We thought want to have seafood lunch in the restaurant there, but due the timing not suitable, all seafood restaurant not yet business. At last, we choose to eat MCD while enjoy the nice scenery at the beach. Nice view and relax....
Conclusions, Sg lembing is quite a nice scenery place, can feel the beauty of nature and relaxing there. Expenses for this trip is quite cheap and worth also. Each person spend around RM120++ not include souvenir.
Attractions in Sg. Lembing
taking photo AT BROGA HILL.
