Finally, it is baby Chen’s full month celebration. After the family discussion, we decide to celebrate Chen’s full month celebration and mother day together. I am very grateful to have many mothers to help me out with my new borns.
Mother helps me to buy lot of tonic drinks and baby clothes
We selected the classic package. It consisted walnut butter cake, 2 red boiled eggs, 2 Ang Ku Kuih and 3 cupcakes. The simple box design and arrangement of cake in it are very presentable.We choose Matcha Ke-Ki as our early mother day cake. Green tea or matcha is one of the top 10 healthiest food in the world. The cake is topped with fresh fruits. For instance, strawberries, blueberries. As it is not too sweet, the cake is widely received by elder family members.The strawberries are big and sweet. the green tea moose has some sweet red beans in it to multiply the cake texture.
Why not celebrate mother day with special limited edition cake from SDS Bakery and Cafe? Check out the detail at HERE.
Mersing is Mr. Ang’s grandparent hometown. Now we will often go back Mersing to visit relatives. As a travel blogger like me, I will start to explore the hidden gem in Mersing. Since last year, Mr Ang and I have been driving around this place. We did not look up the internet for any information. In my opinion, it is more fun to explore the place like a local. This post is focusing on the natural scenery around Mersing.
1) Gunung Arong
Gunung Arong is one of the top 10 must hike hill in Malaysia. The beautiful south china sea can be viewed from the view point. As the hill is facing south china sea, hiker can often feel the breeze. To add on, it is very easy to hike.
Link: Hike Gunung Arong
2) Paddy Field in Air Papan
Paddy Field at Air Papan
Sekinchan is famous for it cast and boundless paddy field view. Mersing has its own paddy field too. The paddy field have a hill as the backdrop. We recently found out this beautiful paddy field. You can find this vast paddy field while on the way to Dataran Air Papan.
Google Map:https://goo.gl/maps/p567q49ov4u
GPS:2.50465,103.8231226
3) Dataran Air Papan
Dataran Air Papan
Air Papan beach is a long coast line facing South China Sea. Local like to picnic at this area. As the coastline is more than 1km, there are many resorts by the beach too.
Google Map:https://goo.gl/maps/61k5cRPirXq
GPS:2.5160102,103.8291432
4)Roller Skate at Dataran Endau
Dataran Endau
Dataran Endau is 34km from Mersing town. The journey took around 30 to 40 minutes. During night time, Dataran Endau is a great place to hang out. Local parent often bring their kids to play roller skate. The roller skate have led light on it. Parent can observe their kids in the big field. THe roller skate can be rent at RM5 per 30 minutes.
Gunung Arong is recently listed as the TOP 10 must hike hill in Peninsular Malaysia on Says.com. As our hobby is hiking, we do a lot of research before we hike. Why do we choose Gunung Arong to hike?
Gunung Arong is just 40 minutes away from Mersing town. it is only 1.5 hours to 2 hours from Johor Bahru.
On good weather, we can see the beautiful sea view from the mountain view point.
The hiking trail is relatively easy to hike
It is very windy during our hike.
Good seafood meal around Mersing town after the hike (the most important reason)
PS: please remember to get hiking permit. We have been warned by local villagers. T.T
The sea view from the mountain is very beautiful. However, it is too misty on the day we hike.
After driving 1.5hr from Johor Bahru to Tanjung Resang, we still not able to find the village road leading to the Gunung Arong. Around 10:00am, we stopped by Tanjung Resang Resort for the road map.
Road Map to Gunung Arong Base Camp
1) Set Tanjung Resang on WAZE app or Google Map on your smart phone. You will reach to a “t” junction.
2) Turn into this village road when you see this sign board. Until this day, I still don’t know the road name. May be is Jalan Marris.3) Drive along the path until you reach a “Y” junction. You will see a little shop house as the image above. Drive on the right road. Follow the red arrow (Drawn by LerLer).4) You will see oil palm plantation around you as you drive down the road. After the oil palm plantation, you will see secondary forest as shown above.5) You will see the base camp. Park your car near the resting hut.
The Hiking Journey with Detail
1) The Gunung Arong hiking entrance. Please try to get the hiking permit before your hiking day. PS: We have been warned by the local villagers.2) The first 300m of the hiking path is quite steep. Please use the rope along the hiking path3) There are many big rocks along the hiking trait. Thus, the mountain will be closed during raining season.4) My hiking speed is realtively slow. I take 45 minutes to reach Gunung Arong view point.5) We enjoy our tea break at this resting house.6) Due to the bad weather, we do not hike to Teluk Gorek sea side. We hike back the old path. I just love this big tree structure.6) After 30 minutes hiking, we reach back the base camp. We rest beside the small water fall.
2) Contact East Johor District Forest Office at +607-7981 030 / +607-799 3363. Please try to get someone to speak Malay language to contact the forest officer. The office’s operating hour is Tuesday to Thursday, 8am to 4pm for smooth procedure
PS: Monday is the forest maintenance day. Friday is Muslim prayer day. I tried to contact them on weekend (Saturday and Sunday) but never success.
3) Submit or fax at +607-7995 352 the hikers’ detail to the East Johor District Forest Office (Pejabat Hutan Johor Timur)
Name
IC Number( for Malaysian) / Passport number (for non-Malaysian)
Address
Contact number
Name of the next of kin
Contact number of the next of kin
4) Hiking permit fee is RM10.00 (include GST) per person (as per February 2016 charges). The officer will give you the payment detail.
5) If you want to save the forest permit application, please contact Mr. Zaharudin. His part-time job is mountain guide around Endau Forest.
