Itinerary Melbourne Trip - 8 Days 7 Night

Almost 3 years haven't write anything in this tiny little world.  So here it comes. Planning trip for 8 Days and 7 Nights for  Melbourne/Victoria.

Day 1 (Sunday)

Melbourne City
O/night Melbourne City
10.00 AM  Arrive at Airport
12.00 PM Take Rental Car at (Belum decide)
02.00 PM         Check in Hotel/Motel/Dorm
02.00 PM          Federation Square
                 Yarra River
                 Royal Botanic Gardens
                 Melbourne Zoo
                 Melbourne's trendy laneways
                 Queen Victoria Market
                 Old Melbourne Gaol
                 Ueraka Skydeck 88 (AUD 19.50) - OPTIONAL
08.00 PM  Dinner

Day 2 (Monday)

Melbourne CBD to Warrnambool/Port Fairy
O/night Warrnambool/Port Fairy
09.00 AM Ride to Port Fairy  (200km Approx)
                Attractions
        Anglesea
        Aireys Inlet
        Cape Otway Light Lightstation
        Apollo Bay (Lunch at Iluka Restaurant)
        Twelve Apostles
        Loch Ard Gorge
08.00 PM         Dinner

Day 3 (Tuesday)

Warrnambool/Port Fairy to Halls Gap
O/night Halls Gap
09.00 AM Ride to Halls Gap  (160km Approx)
                Attractions
       Grampians National Park
       Brambuk - The National Park
       Mt Victoria Lookout
       Mackenzie Falls
       Reids Lookout
       The Balconies
08.00 PM        Dinner

Day 4 (Wednesday)

Halls Gap to Ballarat
O/night Melbourne CBD
09.00 AM Ride to Ballarat  (140km Approx)
                Attractions
        Gum San Chinesse Heritage Centre
        Art Gallery of Ballarat
        Sovereign Hill ($52.50/pax)
        Ballarat Wildlife Park ($30/pax) - OPTIONAL
        Blood on the Southern Cross
08.00 PM         Dinner

Day 5 (Thursday)

Melbourne CBD  to Puffing Billy
O/night Melbourne CBD ( Malaysian Hall)
09.00 AM Ride to Puffing Billy  (150km Approx)
                Attractions
        Puffing Bily Train  ($30/return/pax)
        Brighton Beach
        Healesville Animal Sanctuary
        Mount Dandenong
        National Rhododendron Gardens
08.00 PM         Dinner

Day 6 (Friday)

Melbourne CBD to Philips Island
O/night Melbourne CBD (Malaysian Hall)
09.00 AM Ride to Phillips Island  (140km Approx)
               Attractions
       Cape Woolaimai
        Sorento
        Maru Koala park ($20/pax)
        Churchill Island Heritage Park ($12.25/pax) - OPTIONAL
        The Nobbies Centre
12.00 PM         Lunch Panny Philips Island Chocolate Factory
08.00 PM    Dinner Jeronimos Restaurant

Day 7 (Saturday)

Melbourne CBD
O/night Melbourne CBD ( Malaysian Hall)
10.00 AM City tour Part 2
                 Shopping at DFO South Wharf
08.00 PM    Dinner

Day 8 (Sunday)

Melbourne to Airport
07.00 AM Ride to Airport
08.00 AM Return Car
08.30 AM Boarding

Above all, this is just a planning and it will be execute next week. Major information to suit this Itinerary are came from  KAKI BERANGAN blog

CHEERS

Between Islands and Mountains

I'm just want to share story/pics/cost bout my vacation with 2 friends at Sabah(Kota Kinabalu, Pulau Manukan & Pulau Sapi, Kinabalu Park and Kundasang War Memorial).

Day 1: Shah Alam - Kota Kinabalu
Took a KTM's train from Padang Jawa Station to KL Sentral , then took KLIA Transit to LCCT and depart to Kota Kinabalu International Terminal (Terminal 2 for Air Asia) at 5.15 pm .After 2 hours and 30 minutes we are landed. Then took a taxi(cost about RM50 per car) from KKIA to Tune Hotels(1Borneo) for check-in. No activity for this day but we went to IBorneo looking for a dinner.

For sleep and rest 

Day 2: Sapi Island and Manukan Island 
Took a shuttle bus from 1Borneo to Warisan Square(free shuttle-start 9 am), then went to Jesselton Point(boat and ferry terminal) but we were went half of it coz, there a "prebet boat" offered to take us to Sapi Island and Manukan Island (I think we been cheated) huhu. Then we spent about 3 hours at Sapi Island and 2 hours at Manukan Island (at this point did not care bout sun burn). Done with islands, we're head back to mainland for "lunch" at Suria Sabah and off to hotel for resting and planning activity for the next day(calling out all possible rent car' owner but end with nothing  ).

Day 3: Kinabalu Park and Kundasang War Memorial
Got a SMS early morning from rent car's owner that didn't picked my phone call, and surprisingly he has a car(VIVA) and it's cheap(lucky enough). So, off to Kinabalu Park at 11 am and took about 2 hrs include with stupid fined from police traffic Tuaran. Ridiculous fined which us been fined because of using sun shade, seriously sun shade? which is I never heard before. But all the boosting mad at the police Tuaran being cooling down by the Mount Kinabalu breath taking view, cool's air at Kinabalu Park and beautiful Kundasang War Memorial. After spending a few hours there, we're head back to Kota Kinabalu and went straight to Tanjung Aru to watch sunset. Done with the sunset, off to Filipino market for dinner and did some shopping. Then off to hotel for resting.

Day 4: End of Borneo Journey Part 1 - Kuala Lumpur
Breakfast at KK, adding more souvenirs and off to KKIA's Terminal 2 . Bye Borneo will meet you again. 




Cost for this trip about RM430++ include flight ticket, hotel, foods(breakfast,lunch,dinner, supper, snack), fees (boat,entering fee), transportation and souvenirs.

Broga Hill - Between Dawn and Noon

#learning

Finally i did my first hiking activity on 26/10/2011 and the first lucky hill/mountain is Broga Hill. Broga Hill is a very nice and warm environment, a breath taking panorama and it is 400 meter above the sea level. Took me more than 1 hour to reach at peak include with rest, taking picture and so on along with 1.7+ km from entrance trail to the peak. So the pictures below can describe what actually i had been through on that day.

So, after hiking activity finished we all went to Sungai Tekala to fresh up ourselves and having barbeque there. Thanks to girls who prepare all the dish, without them we starve to death.

I'm glad this plan workout well and hopefully I'll have the opportunity to hike another mountain/hill. Sayonara babeh.

Kingdom of Cambodia Trip - History, Dark Ages and Cultural

On 14 September until 17 September me and my family having a trip to Cambodia. Using Air Asia as our carrier, it provide us a very little amount of money to buy a ticket  and needs us nearly 1 year to make this trip happened. So I purchased the ticket on 9 Nov 2010  and just a couple weeks ago we landed on this beautiful country. Just go trough with the pictures below and it shown how the trip went well or not...

Day 1: Kuala Lumpur - Phnom Penh

Departured from LCCT at 6.45 a.m , arrived at 7.35 a.m (local time), check in hotel at The Green House, then did touring in Phnom Penh city.

Using Tuk-Tuk as our main transportation to move around in  Phnom Penh city

Visiting Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, where all the victims been tortured before moved to Killing Field

The Killing Fields of Choeung Ek, behind us is a Stupa for thousand of victim's skull include women, children and men.

Wat Phnom in Phnom Penh city center, just a temple with beautiful garden, museum and elephant too.

Buying souvenir at Central Market and Russian Market, the shopkeeper know how to speak Malay.

Day 2: Phnom Penh - Siem Reap

Go to Siem Reap at 7.30 am by bus  and arrived there about 2.30 pm, journey took about 5~6 hours, Siem Reap in flood but luckily it starting to receding at the time we arrived. Supposedly we check in at the Cambodia Backpack Guesthouse, but because of their admin stupidity we had to check in to another hotel and it need more cost, damn it Cambodia Backpack Guesthouse. We check in at Tan Kang Angkor Hotel, it $20 pernight and they are so clean and worth it  to stay in compared to Cambodia Backpack Guesthouse. Then we went to Central Market, ate Dinner and went through to Pub Street and also Angkor Night Market.

Kampong Thom is located in the middle route between Phnom Penh and Siem Reap (300++ km)

Water starting to recede, lucky for us

Pub Street, went trough it, took a picture and obviously did not enter the pubs.

Angkor Night Market, lots of shirt, handcraft from local and the price not too differ compare to other markets

Day 3:  Siem Reap - Phnom Penh

Early morning we all went to Angkor Wat, the main reason why tourists came to Cambodia. It has lot of temples which are Angkor Wat itself, Bayon Temple ,The Elephant Terrace and Ta Prohm. We took about 4 hours for detour and back to Siem Reap city for brunch at Kampong Muslims before we departure back to Phnom Penh. Check in back again at The Green House.

Sunrise at Angkor Wat

The Elephant Terrace

Bayon

Bayon, stone faces, we mimic them

At Ta Prohm, place where Tomb Raider been filmed

Mosque at Kampong Muslims it very near to city center

Restaurant own by Imam here and reasonable price for halal food

Phnom Pehn Night Market, this market is similar to normal "pasar malam" in Malaysia.

Day 4: Phnom Pehn - Kuala Lumpur

 Check out from hotel than ready for departure from Phnom Pehn to Kuala Lumpur, before depart we all been imposed with PSC (Passenger Service Charge), $25 for adult and $13 for child. But now since 1 April 2011 Air Asia had included PSC in their booking ticket.

Overall, this trip is awesome and maybe i come back again to explore more Siem Reap province and Angkor Wat Park.

p/s: already bought a ticket to Jakarta next year and will be going to Bandung by using Jakarta as my interchange station.