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Footstep all around part 1 - setiawan and pulau pangkor


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October and november are both blessed months to me.
Said goodbye to october and welcome to november.

semester break,
celebrated my birthday
and
the love-one came.

Yay! the love-one came!
So, this make up my November!
 
We had good time together, we went to a lot of places.
Okay, without hesitate, lets share with you our footsteps all around!
 
First stop: Setiawan, a hoo-chew town,
Hunting for Setiawan famous local food - Gom-pyang!This is the one that my local friend from setiawan told me here got the best gompyang. It can be find easily, it is a yellow building behind Wisma Ganda Setiwan which u cn find in GPS or google map.
 

It was a long queue when we reached there, it must be very famous because most of them are tourists. By the time we reached, it almost fiinished >.<


Luckily we still get to buy the amount that we want. If it is sold out, you can wait for next round, about 45 minutes later. Or you can book it earlier so that you wont back with dissapointment.


The filling is fried onion, this is super duper nice as it is served in hot! I am from a typical hoo-chew town, Sibu. Our famous local food is also gompyang, but ours is very much different with the one that i had in setiawan. Ours filling is minced pork or pork slice. Some people even prefered 'kosong' one, means they can put in cheese, butter or whatever they want. Sure going to introduce the sibu's kompia one day, ya i promise if i remember that, haha


We had lunch in setiawan, red-wine-mee-sua, a setiawan local food too. The red wine mee sua is instead very very red, i thk they added a lot of red wine inside. Besides that, the chicken that we had inside the mee-sua is fried chicken. This is very special and cheap, RM3.5 per serving.


Not to forget to introduce you the best chili in setiawan, this is really nice but we didn bought that cz we both r nt chili lover.

Second stop: Pulau Pangkor
After filling our stomach, we head to Pulau Pangkor. You hv to take ferry from lumut jetty to pulau pangkor, and lumut is very near to setiawan, ab 30minute driving.


Return ticket for the ferry is rm10 for adult, the ferry will go once its more than half fill.
So its depends on your luck, if the last ferry jz depart then you will have to wait in the ferry for some time until its more than half filled. Each way might take you around 40-45minutes to reach.

Camwhore while waiting, we saw a lot of tourist that day, most probaly due to the public holiday on friday. So, it takes us quite a long time to find a parking slot.

Pangkor is a fishing village, as you going to reach pangkor, you will see many fishing boat.


Welcome to pangkor, as we steped on this island, we were welcomed by the beautiful landscape of the jetty.

Our first planning was going around using taxi, but we turned out renting a motor. Because taxi is too expensive, and we had only 2person, we might need to share a taxi with other ppl, which means we mz tolerate with others time. So, we decide to go on Plan B (random emergency plan ;P)
We rented a motor for 2 hrs, this cost us rm20 >.< This is expensive!!! As i checked from website, the rental for motor is only rm30 for whole day. so rm20 for 2 hrs is very very very very expensive.
But, we have no choice, if you want to get a cheaper one, you can walk further to the shop ab 200 feet away from jetty which cost u ab rm5 one hr only.

 
There is only one road in pangkor island, so you will nvr get lost. And the total length of road in pangkor is just 14km. But, some of the road are quite steep, so check ur brake frequently. Motor is always a better choice than skuter.

Nvm, just move on. We get a map from the local, take a pics and here we go!! Tadaaa, Dutch port of pangkor island. One of the tourism spot of the island.



Then, we went to the miniature great wall of china, this is behind the famous temple in pangkor, the fu-li-gong. We didn visit the temple, take a few pics with the miniature great wall of china. This is quite unique, and its really really small. We were like giant man going to detroy the world. hahaa



Next, the beach! There are a lot of beaches in pangkor island. The famous one are Teluk Nipah beach and Pasir Gombak beach. Nature lover might prefers Teluk Nipah as it has a lot of corals and others while Pasik Gombak beach is more suitable for youngs as it has more water sports such as snorkelling, banana boat, speed boat, volley ball and others. Actually we wanted to go for snorkelling, and i checked the price from website is ab RM20 per pax. But again, because we hv only 2 ppl and we gt to rent the whole ship for snorkelling which will cost us ab rm120 per ship. The ship can fit mininum 6pax, then only rm20 per pax as i said jz nw. We couldnt find anyone to share with us, so we jz stay at the beach.
I like beach because we do not have one is sibu. I like family trip to beach so that we can have a lot of fun, bbq and so on there. But, too bad, my dad is so much against the sun, so we nvr hv such gathering. I will brg my child there one day! hehee^^





After so much of fun, we left pangkor at the evening. We didn stay over a night in pangkor, but this is recommended, a bbq dinner and a night walk along the beach is awesome.

Bck from island and we move on to highland, stay tune for part 2! ;P Till then, enjoy reading ;DD