Cherating – Part 2

Sometimes I wonder if I am growing too tense and need to relearn the habit of relaxing and chilling….

My objectives for this trip are as follows:

1)To shoot some pictures of my sis for her Sports Illustrated calendar – hopefully my half baked skills as a photographer would be enough for that
2)To check out the surfing scene and oogle at some hubbas
3)To chill and relax with my sis to see if we will be compatible as travel buddies

We had a rough start … at least in my kiasu mind as we din leave at 6 p.m. on the dot as I have planned (yes… I am a maniac nowadays when it comes to these things… even I hate myself for it… but what to do, am getting old so time is running out, therefore, must be more efficient)

We left KL at about 8.30 p.m. and reached around 1 a.m. which was pretty good timing considering we don’t know the way that well and it was in the middle of the night. Missed the turning to Pantai Cherating coz the signboard was facing the other side of the road and was too dark for us to see. Luckily, we were logical enough to stop at some Tom Yam restaurant that was lined up on that part of the road to ask for directions, made a U turn, travelled about 1 km and found the turning. We got to Cherating Cottage safely after squinting at all the road signs along Pantai Cherating, when we could have just drove straight along the road happily as the signboard for Cherating Cottage was pretty big.


My sis posing at the big signboard by the road side

You could say the moral of the story is we should have taken more time to research on how to get to Cherating a lil bit more … but as you can see even by just following the simple directions given by Farah from Cherating Cottage over the phone which goes like: “From the highway, follow the road sign to Kemaman, then Cherating, then Pantai Cherating and watch out for our signboard” we got there in one piece after a couple of heart attacks. For all you kiasus and OCDs out there,here is a link to a site that has a satellite map of Cherating..hehe. http://www.backpackingmalaysia.com/hostel/cherating-cottage/cherating