After weeks of island hopping and roughing it up a bit
We decided to treat ourselves to an actual star rated hotel in the Malaysian town Terengganu
We went out all the way and dined in style. This is what you call a steamboat
It's a simmering pot of soup stock, which is served with raw foods that you cook yourself
Thinly sliced meat, fish, noodles, vegetables just to name a few
From al the island-hopping, we've been so busy the last three weeks
Langkawi, it was Perhentian to Kapas
It was a busy time for us, and we just needed about three days to
Recuperate, charge the batteries, do a lot of admin, and we got this little vehicle here
Lake Kenyir. So this is our wheels for a day or two
That's the most expensive one we got
So far, but with the least amount of features so it's a manual and it does not have power steering
But at least it's got an aircon. Are you girls ready?
What's the problem Kayla?
You have now clothes. Where's your clothes? You are on camera
Put the aircon on!
Why didn't you guys do so in the first place?
Because you have the key
Oh, nice aircon
So we're mobile again
And that's the nicest thing. We love to be mobile. It's so bad to sit at a place, and you can't go anywhere
So we're on our way to lake Kenyir and
What makes it so special is that lake Kenyir is the largest man-made lake in southeast asia
And this great lake is surrounded by the world's oldest
rainforest. All sites dotted with more than
340 islands throughout the lake which was once mountains and highlands, so we're very excited to explore
Like Kenyir also has the world's most amazing natural tropical treasures
Cascading Waterfalls
Mysterious caves, a lot of islands, mystifying mountains, blossoming parks and
gardens and exotic wildlife sanctuaries
On our way to go and try and find some accommodation for the night
And here is lake Kenyir, part of it
AKS resort Kenyir I believe that's the resort and then
I've no idea how you get there, maybe perhaps with this boat
You're gonna paddle all the way to that side
Or you wait for somebody to pick you up, but this is how far the car goes it's up to here
It's that gentleman's car. Our car is just there at the back
Let's drive on and see what else is there, but this is an option if you don't have any accommodation
We drive from east to west to try and find accommodation along Lake Kenyir
We only found one place and the guy couldn't speak English
and it seems like you have to do a river crossing
of some sort to get to the other side
And there's a lot of old cars on this side that
look like it's been standing there for 10 years, so it's a bit dodge and we decided to move on
Couldn't find anything along the way, so Eben started up the drone and tried to find
accommodation from up in the air
And now we're trying to look for it along the road and see where is this hidden gravel road?
So fingers crossed.
Yeah, we saw something in the air. It looks promising, but we're not sure exactly it's around here somewhere
very hidden
gravel road
But I think let's see where this road takes us hopefully to a very
Beautiful little cottage next to the river. And the road continues
A bit of disappointment
It's not my beautiful cottage on the lake
It is a cottage on the lake though
But if you look here
So if you look here
This guy has his own boat with a roof on, so it must be tourist type of place with a nice little cottage
So we've gotten to this fish farm
Here in the middle of nowhere, it's definitely not tourist
type of place. It's very beautiful, I've flown with the drone and there's
Hundreds and hundreds of islands over there, which I would love to go and see. This guy is this little boat here
It's very tiny with like a five or three horse power engine, but he doesn't have oil. He doesn't speak English
It's only him here and he can say about two or three words no key, no oil
no boat
This is where he stays
It's actually not too bad. I think you can relax and settle here
Thanks! Cheers! Bye bye. Have a good day
There's our little
vehicle, and then you have to go over this
Over this all the way there and you have to balance and this thing is not very stable
Over there is a nice boat and
It looks like a nice little
house boat type of thing
But they don't have a key for that boat, because that would be ideal for
family outing on the lake
But that's obviously not gonna happen today, so
What we need to do now is we we've looked everywhere we can't get anyplace
There's not much going on up here really there's not much going on. It's just a road passing through and then it's going into the mountains
We've gone all the way to the elephant conservation area
not much going on there either, so
We're gonna head back now to the main attraction and see if we can't get something there
But the actual place where I want to be and
drive around is this side of the lake because it looks like the
most beautiful part with the most islands
Still at lake Kenyir
We've looked everywhere for accommodation. We couldn't find any
There's a couple of house boats, but I don't know how to get... like there's one
big one
But we phoned the number and they don't speak English which is a bit of a problem
So now I'm just gonna go down and find out. There's a storm on its way
And we've been around the whole lake. Wherever you can get to with a car, we've been there
Your number
Ah, thank you, uh great stuff, thanks a lot, go well, bye-bye
So
not
expensive at all
You can get a room sharing for 120 or family room for
200
And
They leave tomorrow morning early and they're only coming back the 14th, so that's about four... three nights
That they go out, all over the lake
They do breakfast and dinner and all those things
Quite nice, but unfortunately no space. It's full
So if you want, we have to wait until next week actually
If we want to go on a trip like that, so we're gonna look somewhere else
So we're entering
Welcome to Tasik Kenyir
And this is our room for the night here at Kenyir lake.
We've managed to get a room in a house boat
stationary that is
This is on the house boat we are staying at tonight, and this is our room
Lovely double bed and a single bed that the kids are gonna share
and this is where
the two girls are
Hi girls
Beautiful scenery from the
one end of the house boat. So we are now at Pulau Poh
That over there is where they are building a
duty-free Center
This was it for our inland exploration. This lake is
Breathtaking and to imagine it was once a jungle
Cruising on this majestic lake and spending a night on a house boat will most definitely be a memorable experience
There is a lot of development happening at lake Kenyir and this will soon be a top tourist attraction
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