Short Raya Getaway to Johor Bahru : Desaru Beach Holiday

We just came back from our recent Hari Raya trip to Johor Bahru, my hubby's hometown. Every year we will go back there for twice a year to visit my mother-in-law. She's old and refused to come to stay with us, so we will plan long leave to go back there twice a year. It's far from Ipoh so we cannot go back very often unless it's long holiday like Raya or Christmas. This trip, hubby brought me and our mochi Biri to Desaru beach. We went on 5th July (Tuesday) early morning around 8am. We reached there after around 1 hour drive there. This beach is really clean and quiet. Though the water is not crystal clear like those Islands in the East Coast, but the water is clear though. 

 

Hi Welcome to Desaru, Johor

 Like I said just now, the beach was very quiet, not many people there that time, probably because it was eve of Hari Raya. So we were one of those few families there. In addition, it was very hot and sunny that day. People mostly will choose to stay in-door than coming out to the beach. But hubby had promised to bring us here so he kept his promise. 

Desaru beach is a long stretch of sandy beach, with some sections of it belonging to the private resorts. There were many resorts there so, you can only access to certain part of the beach if you are not staying in the resorts. We went to the public beach and for each public beach, we need to pay RM4 parking fee per entry. 

BBQ area and resting area before the beach

After passing by the walkway and BBQ area, we reached the beautiful beach. I like Desaru more than Langkawi. The beach is clean with no rubbish. Well-maintained.

Soft sands with calm beach on our right side

Another side of the beach - see how little people were there

I said this place is well-maintained because there was a large tractor moving along the beach to smoothen the sand and make the beach smooth and tidy. See below picture

Tractor trails on the beach

Mochi Biri and daddy choose to stay at the beach to play sand.....To be continued

Hello mummy, I'm playing sand! I love sand, and I HATE water!!!

... while I, ran to the water to capture some pictures. I love hanging around the beach because it gave me a very relaxing feel of a retreat.

Can you see the clear water?

Sunny day with clear water

Hello from Desaru!

 

We're happy family by the beach

 Continue to share more lovely pictures that I had captured at the beach!

Can you see clearly the clear water???

 

Great photography skill!

We hang out at the beach till around 11.30am and the sun began to burn our skin. We stayed by the beach instead of going down the water. We did not swim as our son was very afraid to go down the water.

The hubby and wifey

Yes, hubby captured this stupid photo of me trying to 'climb' and sit on the tree.

Lastly, TQ to hubby for bringing us to this beautiful beach. My JB holiday is not the same as before this round. Muacks

Love,
Wifey

Cameron Highland Family Trip 2016 - Day 2

Hi! Have you read my Day 1 post? If not, check it out HERE. Very quickly, it's Day 2 of our short family trip. Mum woke up early to prepare a simple breakfast for us all. Sunshine eggs, and noodles!. YummY!

Delicious breakfast

 Before leaving the beautiful penthouse, we all took a wefie of the whole family! Nice right!

Welcome to Leong, Woo & Lee family!

After breakfast, we headed south to The Lakehouse Cameron Highland at Ringlet. But on the way, we stopped by at Cameron Tea Valley. Green tea valley, made us felt so relaxed.

Hello from me and Hugo (the nurse)

Another angle

We all walked down to the tea valley for a picture down there. Very lovely place to take awesome pictures!

We all then drove to The Lakehouse Cameron Highland.

Lets continue our journey to The Lakehouse

 We were awed the moment we saw this beautiful English LakeHouse!

Walked up the ramp at the back of the Lakehouse. Took this beautiful picture of my mum

After turning around, you can see this beautiful side of the Lakehouse with a small garden.

Chibi photo bombed my picture with mum

 

Me and mum

Mum and aunt with my cute son

Happy Father's Day to the Daddies

 When we saw the Lakehouse, we were really awed. Never knew such beautiful places existed in Malaysia! So beautiful!

The Lakehouse Cameron Highland

We all took many photos around this place as this is such a lovely place and our first visit here. 

It's cool to have a model with us to take such nice picture with the Lakehouse

Family picture!

 Now, lets check out a series of modeling pictures at the Lakehouse!

We have a baby model here! Presenting Chibi Biri posing around with his strawberry balloon

 

We have 3 models here too!

We ended the visit at Lakehouse with a family picture

We then move on to the next stop 'Strawberry Corner'. Our all time favourite to visit at Cameron Highland.

 Hello everyone! Here's the baby with the uncle!

Ultimately, this is my son's favourite place to visit too!

This place is always our best stop for lovely tea break in the garden

Strawberry Corner is the best place for flowers, and cactus purchase. Too many varieties!

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Then, we visited Kea Farm for short shopping of strawberries, vegetables and other things. Kea Farm has changed a lot too. Now, there's Kea Garden within Kea Farm Market.

My son and I with lovely flowers

Kea Garden

I end this holiday post with one statement : Serene, breathtaking and relaxing family holiday!

This place is a definete worth to visit! 

Love,

Grace

Cameron Highland Family Trip 2016 - Day 1

Hello and wishing everyone happy always. I don't know if my blog has any readers or not! Haha! If there is, hope you all are well. I had just came back from my recent holiday with my family. Yep, I know, I went to a lot of holidays this year and I take note of that! Well this holiday was planned last month, last minute to go with my youngest brother before he leaves Ipoh to Assunta Nursing College for his Diploma in Nursing. Yes! We're going to have a male nurse in the family. I'm so proud of this. 

Ok. We all departed from Ipoh around 7.30 am and reached Cameron Highland around 10.15 am. My brothers and I had made a promise to take a new picture of us 6 years after our first Cameron Highland trip. And here's the difference. 

Haha. My brother Lawrence had gained some weight obviously, and Hugo grew taller. I myself, have less hair after delivering my son! And, 3 of us became fairer obviously.

Ok, let's continue on our holiday journey. We had a small hiccup between the journey as we all went all the way to Gopeng through the highway, and missed the Simpang Pulai tol to Cameron Highland. We quickly made a U-turn at the Gopeng tol and made our way back to Cameron Highland. The journey was smooth and we reached there safely. We stopped at the first stop - Garden View Cafe. This stop has developed a lot since our last visit last year! BTW, this garden is free admission. It's located beside the Avant Chocolate, and it's on your left side if you come from Simpang Pulai direction.

Hello from us!

This is the new garden with lights and wishing bottles

Mum and aunty took this beautiful picture in the garden

There is also new 'paddle boat pool' for kids to play. RM8 for 15 minutes boat paddling

We all took this opportunity to take lots of pictures here - selfies, wefies and pictures of the sceneries.

Wefies

Another wefie of the siblings and the GF

Not forgetting, family photo. Hello, here's a beautiful picture of my small family. See the lovely flowers behind us?

Small family!

My chibi biri and myself

This place is special for the petting zoo in it. It has rabbit farm and duck farm. Admission is RM3 if I'm not mistaken.

Rabbits!

Walking further into the garden, you can see sea of hydroponic vegetables.

Green vegetables

Another side of the garden is this iconic windmill. It's not functioning so it's great for photographs. We had some pictures taken here as well.

Me and my man! If you take a close look, you can see a photo bomber behind the windmill!

Me and the GF!

The garden's flowers are so colorful, making our morning feels great

We then quickly stopped to grab our tea in the cafe. We ordered cakes and soups! Cameron Highlands is a place for delicious cakes, coffee and tea. Each place we go, we will grab some drinks and food! I made a picture collage of the food there!

Yummy cakes and breads

 After our tea, we drove all the way to Brinchang to meet with Dave to get our apartment's key. I'd booked a penthouse from Dave at Desa Anthurium. Desa Anthurium is located between Brinchang and Kea Farm. This penthouse is really spacious, well maintained, clean and comfortable. Nothing to complain of.

The living room, kitchen, mini bar and dinind area

It has two balconies and the rooms are all located upstairs as compared to usual apartment.

 After reaching, we all quickly put down our luggage, had our steambot lunch by the balcony! Really fun and cool!

Homemade steambot by the balcony

First day was a simple day. We stayed indoor to rest during the afternoon and watched Astro. We went out around 6pm to Brinchang night market. Sorry no photos taken as we rushed home due to rain. We had to dine in at our penthouse that night.

Yummylicious food. Not very healthy though

After dinner, we all played cards while watching Fast and Furious 7. Later around 9.30pm, we all drove to Tanah Rata for a simple mamak sytle supper and reach home around 11pm to sleep. First day just ends like that!

Stay tuned for my 2nd day post HERE!

Love,
Grace