A long Hari Raya holiday, 4 consecutive days to be exact. How to spend the holidays wisely to get away and relax from the hectic working life? Of course it is travelling! My family decided to pay Morib and Tanjung Sepat a visit after listening many good reviews of those places.
After passing through the small town of Banting, we arrived Morib. A very small town with its Pantai Morib as its main attraction. To our disappointment, there was nothing much to see there. It's just a beach with dirty shore. The haze from Indonesia doesn't help much on beautifying the area too. We moved on to the Gold Coast Morib Resort with a built-in mini water theme park. Unfortunately the mini water theme need additional entrance fee to enjoy the facility... Next.
Tanjung Sepat is about 15mins away from Morib, a small coastal village which is made famous with its Lover's Bridge, seaside seafood and few kind of locally-made food. Here's the Lover's Bridge, it is said to be built for the faithful wives of the fishermen, to wait there for the return of their next of kin. It started with a concrete span from the land into the sea, and a short wooden span merged out further into the sea.
There were plenty of stalls nearby the Lover's Bridge, selling souvenirs, fresh fruit juice (blended passionfruit and dragonfruit!), pumpkin crackers and fishballs. Almost everyone who passed by bought 3 bottles (worth RM10) of fruit juices to quench their thirst in the hot day.
Had a lunch in the restaurant directly next to the Lover's Bridge. It was so crowded it took me an hour to secure a table, another hour and a half to start satisfying our hunger. Never ever go to tourist attractions on a holiday, or else you time will be wasted on the road and also while waiting for food. Worse, the food was not delicious, the fried prawn mantis was one of the worst I've tried. We ate as fast as possible, as there were plenty more people waiting for a table too.
I did some researches before visiting Tanjung Sepat, and discovered a famous bun-making store called 'Hai Yew Heng'. The name of the store is just one alphabet different than my father's name! Those who know what my surname is will know what's my father's name now!
The 'paos' generally costed around RM2 per 'pao'. The queue was insanely long, didn't want to join in the fun. We left without buying any 'pao'.
So, we explored Morib and Tanjung Sepat in just half a day. With plenty of time left, we decided to make a de tour to Jenjarom to visit Fo Guang Shan Dong Zen Temple, also known as 东禪寺. We heard plenty of good reviews about this place, where it will be decorated with plenty of lights and ornaments during Chinese New Year. A relaxing environment indeed.
Many people were jogging here in the evening. With the lush green scenery, I feel like jogging there already!
It turned out that SKVE is just nearby the Dong Zen Temple, and it was a pretty nice highway which leads right to Cyberjaya. A smooth journey back home...
