Kuala Rompin Malaysia

We took a little mini vacation to Malaysia at the end of 2010, this year has certainly been an adventure for our family and we needed to escape the city life a little bit and regroup.

 You can easily take a bus from Singapore over to Malaysia and with some research we found that Transnational buses had a good safety record so we went with them.

The bus stop is in Little India and the waiting is done outside

your tickets are sold from a trailer, we bought our tickets a week before we left, you can not do this on line, you have to do it the old fashion way and actually go to the station to buy the tickets.

We had a six hour bus ride and there is not bathroom on the bus, and Caleb and I had some little bug visitors on our floor.  The bus did stop to pick people up and one 30 minute stop to eat and use the bathroom, here the boys are in front of the bathrooms

There really is a lot of mosaic tile work on the buildings and just some interesting buildings in general along our way.

We stayed at the Sommerset Resort in Kuala Rompin, it is an old colonial building, very large and on hundreds of acres of rain forest land where the monkeys were running wild and swinging from tree to tree.
I tried to get a picture of a monkey but they are fast, they were having fun shaking the trees so that water fell on our heads.  Scott and the boys are pointing to one, can you see it?

 

There was a ropes course in the rain forest so the boys had fun climbing and playing on some of the set ups.

 The landscape in Malaysia where we were was very wild, so we saw many bugs, here are some red ants, we don't know if they bite so we decided not to get close enough to find out.

The resort is located on the South China Sea and we had fun playing in the waves, normally you can hire a boat for really cheap, like $30.00 a day and it will take you to all these little islands and you can snorkel but it is monsoon season so we just stuck around the grounds.

The tide was coming in and the waves had a relaxing rhythm as the sun was going down. It was exactly what we needed a little R&R.

We took advantage of having no obligations and read books, played 3/4 of a game of China Rails, Caleb was clearly winning when we stopped.

The grounds were pretty and the staff was nice, the cleanliness standards are not quite up to the standards we would have in the U.S. so that took a bit of getting used to, there was mold on the pillow etc... but all in all it was really a great trip.