We started our journey at 4am in the morning on Wednesday 1st July. Zzz zzz... No choice, as we knew that if we had to drive for 8 hours straight, we rather it be in the morning when it's cooler! As planned, we had an uneventful journey and arrived at Belum Rainforest Resort on Pulau Banding, Perak at 12 noon.
Entrance of the Belum Rainforest Resort.
The room cost us RM200 per night, including breakfast. The room was big, airy and... empty. Do note that as the resort is supposedly "your gateway to nature", there is no TV or radio in the room. That's pretty ok, as it would encourage you to walk around the hotel look at the herb garden and admire the beautiful scenery! By the way, there's no bathtub in the bathroom - well, I can accept that in the name of saving water...
The mattress reminded me of a certain brand that is "as hard as wood" - but rather comfy actually!
Having unpacked and settled in pretty quickly, we decided to take a walk around the hotel. We quickly spotted a path down to the lake just outside the resort and started to try luring. We gave up after about an hour as there was absolutely no action at all!
Trying our luck below this bridge just outside the resort.
Great view, though no bites!
Mindful that we would need all our energy to fish tomorrow, we retired quite early to wake up the next day at 7am. Had our breakfast at the resort's Hornbill Restaurant where the food was so-so, but the scenery great as usual. In fact, I think the only reason the resort costs that much is because of its location and the surroundings!
You can see all the way down to the lake from the restaurant balcony.
The resort actually offers fishing packages, but as we thought we could get a better deal with the local boatmen, we decided to simply go down to the jetty and grab the first boat we see. Well, so off we went after breakfast. We reached the public jetty around 8am and looked around. There was... Gasp! No one!
Photo-taking at the jetty while waiting...
There wasn't a single soul, even the cafe at the jetty had yet to open. We waited about 10 minutes before a car turned into the jetty carpark - the owners of the cafe had appeared. Unfortunately, they didn't understand a word of English and our Malay is... Haiz... Continued waiting... We were starting to doubt our sanity in blundering our way there without making any bookings when a boat came in!
After combining words like 'pancing', 'Toman', 'satu hari' with various gestures, we managed to convey what we wanted to the boatman. He said, "Ok!" Yeah! After buying our lunch from the cafe, we set off with glee...
And we were off!
To be continued... :)
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