Hello and greetings from Cherating ! I managed to take a day off from the hectic workload and took a breeze holiday with my girl to Cherating; the east coast of Malaysia and located right off the Kuantan town in the state of Pahang, Malaysia
The trip to Kuantan from our capital city takes around 2 to 3 hours depending on how you drive. The journey is quite straightforward with fewer towns along the way as compared to the west coast.
As you can see from this picture, the highway itself is pretty empty - making the journey boring and tiring (especially if you're travelling in a hot and sunny weather)
Nevertheless, we also need to pass through the way to Genting Highlands and Bukit Tinggi and having to enjoy the highland views around there
After 3 hours of agony in the car, we finally ended up in Kuantan town. Road signs are quite friendly in the town area. It's a quiet town with very few cars around. Jam only exist due to traffic lights and road accidents...
As we branch off Kuantan town, we head off to the journey to Cherating. All along the way you would be able to see the rural areas with lots and lots of coconut trees around (Well, it's the coast you see)
Some of the Kampung (rural) houses around Cherating area...
More coconut trees ?
We finally ended up in
The Legend Resort after one hour drive from Kuantan town. This resort offers quite a few facilities as compared to many hotels around the area (However I still prefer Club Med though)
This is the scenery from the hotel room. The beach is just a walk away
As for the room, it's nothing so special about it. Standard wooden cupboard and furnitures, door with key access does not gives you the pleasant feeling as in many 5 stars resort/hotels today
As the evening approaches, we took a look at the hotel's menu and finally decided to go out and look for some seafood. As we were trying to look for some chinese restaurant along the way but we finally ended up in a malay restaurant after going through the state border in Trengganu. (Around 20 minutes of driving with not much pleasant eatout place in sight)
Because of the hunger while driving cross broders, Michele finally gave in and ordered something before the main course. However she claimed that the fried chicken as shown here is quite delicious ! (Hmm... strange, I had tasted it and thought it's quite different as well !)
One of the the main dish: Sotong Bakar (BBQ Calamari). We also ordered a BBQ Ray and Tomyam soup. Altogether it cost us RM41 and a sore throat next morning...
Newx morning : I'd always expect something special from the hotel buffet breakfast but as you can see from this picture, we are not surprised by the so called exclusive buffet breakfast at all...
"Well, how about we go out and look for something nice to eat later ?"
Nevertheless, the environment is quite revigoring and relaxing. The 4 swimming pools ranging from kiddie pool to 6ft deep adult pool is sufficient for many people to enjoy the day there...
That's one of the pool...
As you can see from here, there isn't much pollution around the beach as well. The water is clear and looks very inviting and no doubt that you would wanna run to it !
When the beach is too hot to handle, you can hang around the shades, order a drink and enjoy the sea breeze as well !
Our journey ended as we packed and checked out at noon the following day. The journey is not to our expectations as we were planning to stay for 2 nights but finally ended up with one only. Anyway for a fee of RM165 a night, I guess you may say it's worth it for 2 days off to see the sun, sea, shore, swim and shove !
