www.motobiking.com Northern Malaysia mini Tour 2 2
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14 to 16 Dec 06
Why bother when we can sleep 6 persons for under 150 bucks. For that we get showers and air conditioning.
We can also secure our barang-barang in the room while checking out the sleepy town.
As usual, we tend to over-pack. Ivan’s ZX11 is retro-fitted with gigantic panniers and top box that would make any Goldwing’s owner green with envy. I got my top box installed to my bike just a couple of days earlier. Had to wait for the custom bracket to arrive from Givi in Italy.
Mr Vulcan showing off his teh - tarik riding gear
Phang as usual packed tons of clothes and underwears that would last for a least a week.
There were a couple of places we could visit around Gerik, but we were simply too lazy to move our butts around.
Chin was soon fast asleep in his chilled room. We ended up goofing the late afternoon at the rest house’s cafe drowning teh tariks and toast breads (roti bakar). We meet Mr Lim at the cafe and he recommended that we take our dinner at Soon Lee, some 3 kms away. Apparently, the restaurant serves excellent fresh steamed river fish. We were told that Mr Lim is a Penghulu. So, we trusted that his recommended restaurant could not be a bad choice.
Soon Lee, as promised, was just off the main road. We ordered a plate of steamed soon hock fish (ikan hantu , Oxyeleotris marmorata), a plate of fried giant frogs and some fresh stir fried veggies. And some beer to wash down the food. Superb..
Gerik at night is pretty much a dead town with little night life to offer. Most of the local would opt to drive or ride to Pengkalan Hulu, a border town some 30 minutes away. Thailand is just a couple of minutes away.
the only shopping heaven in town
With
virtually no place to goof the evening, we went to the local supermarket to
buy some tidbits and a six-pack to bring back to the rest house. No sure if we were allowed to
consume alcoholic drink
at the rest house, we decided to have our chat-cum-drinking session at the
park nearby . A sense of deja-vu hit me as we were at the park drinking and
feeding the mosquitos. I remembered that I used to do this when I was a teenager. Wondered if
the mosquitos were intoxicated with our alcohol tainted blood.. Contradicting to what he said, Chin
is a good fast sleeper. Both Ivan and myself snores like there is no
tomorrow. So Ivan, Phang and myself were roommates for the night.
Phang got used to our snorings anyway. Chin, Andy and Ben
shared the other room. Despite an early morning ride schedule, we chatted
away again in the room. The mini tele was showing only Tv3. We were forced
to watch Titanic. Anyway, I, being a light sleeper, had difficulty to
knock into deep slumber on alien bed and pillow even I was dead tired after
a long day. Ivan as usual went into full symphony mode the moment he hit the
sack.
Gerik peaceful rest house at dawn
