The sign is so big that you wont miss it!

it took us about 2 hours to reach our destination that is over 160km away from our home. Upon arrival, we were surprise to see the parking lot pretty empty. After checking in (it cost us rm135 for a room of 2. special offer. what a bargain!) we crash the room and started enjoying the facilities.

                      
                                               our rooms

To fill our rumbling stomach, we had lunch in the cafeteria.

                       
                                              me. Joanne

                       
                                      rm14.50 nasi goreng

We were about to leave the room to soak ourselves in the hot spring when it started pouring cats and dogs. it was crazy, the rain looked like it wont stop. However, after an hour or so, the weather was getting clearer and off we went.

The distance from the rooms to the hot spring is about 1km. In between that distance were empty lands for camp sites.


                     

                     

                            

                            

There were a few things to explore in the hot spring other than just soaking up. We ventured the boardwalk which was a long wooden bridge built atop a flowing hot springs river. i was pretty annoyed with the heat and left as soon as we finish, only to realise later that it was actually an open sauna. (OOooohhh... no wonder)

                      
                           rain drops keep falling on our head

                    

We started to soak ourselves in an open pool of warm water. it was a shallow pool with beautiful water features. the nearer you get to certain features, the tempreature of the gets higher.

Next we headed off to boil eggs. it was nice of the management to supply strainers. and it was also creative for them to post up a timeline for the doneness of the eggs. all of us had ours hard boiled.


                     

                     
                                     raw eggs to be boiled

                     

As we were waiting for the eggs to be cooked, we tried soaking our legs in the nearby pond with the temperature of..

                     
                                       its hot!! no kidding!

                               
                            concentrating hard to ignore pain
                                     
After 7 minutes or so..
                     
                  
                  
        

                        
                                    savouring freshly boiled eggs

After a quick snack (we should have brought some salt n pepper), we left for the therapy walk. This stretch of pebbles is slightly different from the ones we have on the park. it is white, long, blunt... and hot. Moreover, i felt that it is not as painful as the latter. So like they say, if you feel pain when you walk on those pebbles, you have some bad toxic in your body!

                                 

Next to the therapy walk were 3 ponds with different temperature of water. little did we know we were going in the hottest of them all. when i lowered my foot in, it reminded me of a hot bath in Japan. it was crazy. the heat was so extreme that you really need to take your sweet time to submerge your body.

when we had enough of heat, we splashed ourselves with icy cold water that was availalbe in the open pool. it was a great refreshing feeling.

too bad we didnt had the chance to experince the one and only cold water pool as they are having a construction. All in all we had a great time and i would love to go back again.

                    

The next day after a late check out, we randomly drove another 100kilometres to Sitiawan to have a great meal of noodles.

                    
                    
                                         buying fruits from Bidor

we drove all the way for this

                   
                           

                   
                                     

                          
After lunch, we went to a stall near Fajar mall that sells cendol. Apparently this particular stall had served their cendols to the king of Perak. They also have a trademark, which is wearing a big red bow tie at all times.