Tuesday, October 7, 2008


Yet another TT session, but this time we go another step furthers... this time we are going to an Elephant Sanctuary located in Pahang.. so our journey begins at Karak Highway - Bentong - Raub(lunch) - Elephant Sanctuary - Bentong(ice-cream) - K.L .

Started our journey at 10.30am, drive thru Karak Highway, passing by Bentong and reaches Raub. Along the Karak Highway i am struggling to kept up with Andy and Andre and thier GTi, lol.. especially when i was caught in between them, where Andy was behind me kept pushing me faster and Andre was infront which i cant really kept up...



Reaching Raub

Anyway we reaches Raub around 12pm-1pm, just about the right time for lunch... The restaurant (Restaurant Sentosa) is actually an old kampung house.. quite big and plenty of parking space inside the properties.. so i managed to took some photos of our cars.


My Car


Ethan's 206


Andy's GTi


Andre's GTi


Pumbaah 406 and Blackdolphin 405


The Restaurant signboard

Well the food is superb, especialy the fish dishes, infact we are having 2 kind of fish dishes.. and a damn big fish too.. then the gaint prawns, petai's, kampung chicken, some veg and fews more.. that i dont really remember hehe.. but i guess the main things is the fishes here...


This is the 2nd fish dish and the jumbo prawn..

After lunch which cost about rm1k+ (about 20ppls) we continued our journey to the Elephant Santuary, the drive was exciting and fun, with bends and down/up hills... especially when we getting near to the Elephant sanctuary location with newly build tar road goin inside the deep country road. (see the video for more)

Continueing our journey

We reaches the Elephant sanctuary using the country road, which is more fun than highway, alto at certain point the road is abit bumpy.. but it was straight with up/down hills all the way...


Finally reaches the place


Enterance, you need to register and get a stickers to stick on yourself to go in


Elephant ride


Taking a bath with Elephant

We hang around the area till 4pm+ before starting our journey back, seems like blackdolphin and mrs. dolphin also went for a swim with the elephant.. too bad i was not around that time and didnt take any picture hehe..



Half way thru our journey back there is heavy rain... so everyone started to slow on with headlight, fog light, back fog light on... hehe and as usual when there is heavy rain on the highway there is always an accident... well most of the time la...


Everybody is slowing down to check out the accidents


Altho not very clear, it is a Honda Jazz.. full of soft toys

After pass thru the accident area.. with nothing much to see.. so i speed of in front... seeing the traffic is loosen.... and too my surprise, Andy whose at behind told me that he got shock seeing me speed of in the rain and especially when everyone had a coldfeet after seeing the accident... and i was like.. uh did i really go that fast ah? lol


The twin GTi race against each other

We decided to had a 'pit stop' reaching Bentong, seems like there is a very famous ice-cream or ABC shop there... oh well why not? hehe

Andy talking about how crazy i was to speed up in the rain at the corners.. haha

Well for the rest of the journey its was easy driving.. but ofcourse the 2 GTi had gone way..... infront of me by the time we reaches the toll... and no where to be seen hehe.. cant even see the smoke..!

Inside the tunnel


Going downhill, see the warning!


As when i reaches home i did tell Andy that on the begining of the journey i was having trouble to kept up with them with my punny 1.4li engine hehe and then halfway on our journey back Andy told me that i am a crazy wet road driver who speed up at corners on wet conditions road plus heavy rain... but.. frankly speaking i didnt felt anything at that time.. coz i know i got a good grip on the road... but the only 1 thing that really got to me.. and i really felt scared is while on the way back thru the Karak highway is.. this one.. (see picture below)



As you can see i am at the left lane overtaking some cars on the right lane.. speeding up then suddenly infront of me is a bend at the eaged of a clift.. goin downhill! about 100++kmph... i grab my steering so hard and try to overcome the corner which i am still on the left lane and can actually look down the clift... as there is some cars on the right lane.. i had no choice but to stayed on the left lane... but again my car didnt dissapoinmet me.. (or else i wouldnt be writting this blog lol) and its stick on the road like a lich.. wow.. damn heart pumping moments haha

Anyway reaches home around 6pm... and when think back... ok next time i would just take my sweet time and cruise.. no more chasing no more overtaking hahaha




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