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Monday, September 16, 2013

A short trip to Sungai Lembing, Kuantan (15/09/2013)


 First and foremost, let me have a simple brief about this town, Sungai Lembing. Sungai Lembing is a tin mining town 42km northwest of Kuantan in Pahang, Malaysia. Lembing is means "spear" in Malay, and Sungai means river. It was one of the lagest, longest and deepest subterranean tin mine in the world. It was mined by the Pahang Consolidated Company Limited (PCCL)

a British company from 1906 until 1986.



A few days ago, my friends was planning to have a hill walk on Bukit Panorama in order to view sunrise. Unfortunely, it's raining cats and dogs on the weekend, so how can we have the hill walk on the next day? The stair-steps are broken and slippery so we just walked around and visited some places in the town. It took about 45mins to the Sg Lembing town from Kuantan.




It's the sunrise view from the Bukit Panorama. It's the first must thing to do in Sg. Lembing. We had to wake up in the early morning to view the sunrise. It took about 45mins to reach the hill's peak. There is no guarantee that you can view a beautiful sunset here. But it's still worth climbing up this hill in order to watch the sea of cloud, anyway.

After that, there is a chinese hawker centre in the town.  NAM LOKE HEAN (南乐天) is a old stall which run by an old couple. They only sell hot beverage and cold drinks are not available. For the food, A Feng Mian Dang (阿凤面档) is one of the popular stall in the hawker centre. There is a long queue! luckily my friends and I queue up when there are not much people. Soft stuffed tofu (林明山水豆腐) and Sg. Lembing noodles (林明面) are the famous foods here. (MUST TRY!)
Their tofu is made by the clean, fresh water comes from hill and the noodles which are less alkaline added.  I had ordered a glass of hot milk tea and curry Sg. Lembing noodles. They cost RM1.10 and RM4.70 respectively.  The food here are cheap! Noodle without stuffed food is just RM1.00,  stuffed food cost RM0.60 for each and a soft stuffed tofu costs RM0.70.




This is the Sunday morning market. They will kill me if I post it without mosaic, they look happy anyway *laughing


 The main road of Sg. Lembing has two row of shop houses at its both side. It's divided by a row of old big trees and the local government has built a concrete devider where people can rest and sit there. There is a oldest tree which was planted since year 1775.


 The Sg Lembing's residents are mailnly Hakka and Hainanese as well.


Hey! There is a Thean Hou temple here but it's closed. Sad man. 













Old collections in the museum



The museum explained the history of Sg Lembing and tin mining glory days.

After visited to the museum, we leased the bicycle from somewhere near the museum.

1 hour : RM5 
2hours :RM10
3hours: RM12

Hoho
Cycling in the town feels good 
It's a cloudy morning :)
felt tired when cycling up on a steep slope. *sweating


Take a break at a old stall which famous in steamed rice noodle sheets (Chee Cheong Fun)
Feels good to eat a bowl of mixed ice (ABC, Air Batu Campur) after cycling. It costs RM1.50. :)


Sungai Lembing have afew hanging bridge to connect the people from the other side of the river to the main town.

This area is the another side away from the main town, there is a crowded restaurant. Their food looks yummy but I'm full. :(

We spent about two hours to walk around the town. There are still some places that we have no time to explore. 4WD is needed to go to the Gunung Tapis Rainbow Fall. Gunung Tapis is a hill which located 16km away from Sungai Lembing. It is the 18th highest mountain in the peninsular at 4957 feet. It is a beautiful nature park with camping spots in the areas. You can shoot rapids on one of the several rivers or fishing. The park also noted for its hot springs and wildlife. If you plan to stay overnight, camping and survival equipment are recommended.


Gunung Tapis





Panching Sivan Temple (Charas Cave)



It is located about 25km km nortwest of Kuantan at Panching on the Sungai Lembing road.To get in the main chamber you need to climb a 20-foot metal staircase. This cave system have for a long time been the abonde of some Buddhist monks who act as caretaker for the 30-foot statue of the reclining Buddha within.

aww... feel want to take a look in this cave.
Love to go everywhere and take photos.

Can't wait for the next destination!
Where should I go?




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