Adventurous Saturday!!

If "Plan A" didn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters!! This quote seem to fit my "Adventurous Saturday" Outing program. Well, things turns out to happens not based on what had been planned earlier and thats how i named it as "Adventurous Saturday!"

Initial Plan was to visit Danok, Thailand  through Bukit Kayu Hitam (Kedah-Thailand) border and do some Food Hunting. What we didn't expect is the heavy traffic along the road not too far from the border. Small car, big car, motorbikes were all on the road for the same purposes to enter Danok. Since this is my first visit to the boarder, i know less about how "things" was going on at the border but i did read about few blogs of how they waited hours to clear at the Immigresen for passport and custom checking. So instead of waiting our turn, we changed our plan to visit Padang Besar (Perlis-thailand) border. Perlis is another state in the northern side of Malaysia. 

Here's the routes that we took. We started at point A (Changlun,Kedah)  to Point B (Padang Besar, Perlis) and Of course with GPS help but still we made few mistakes and ended up doing more U-turns along the routes. From Point B, We enter Perlis-Thailand Border and drove back to Point A using different (Thailand) routes. 

It was a tiring Journey since most of the time we lost our way ... yes .. even we have GPS with us!! One thing i learnt from the trip ... always ask people for the correct direction and never to rely merely on GPS. 

Here We go!! Journey begin with a Happy, Smiley faces of us (Katie, Nana & I). Katie, from Chicago, America was an English teacher here in Kedah. Have had met her at church. She was a lovely & friendly young lady. Nana, a friend of friend's of mine. She is from Perak. They both can be considered as a newly met friends and we were so excited about the journey!! 

Upon arrival from Changlun to Perlis .... took us about 2 hours journey to finally reach Perlis. It was a small town with few fruit stall. Here are some facts about Perlis and well known as the driest place in Malaysia. 

Yes its true ... its very dry and hot in Perlis. You might want to bring your drinking water along with you to prevent hydration while in Perlis. 

Padang besar!! 

Sticky Rice with Manggo ... (Pulut Mangga) and coconut drink was the popular food in Northern Part Of Malaysia. I never really like to eat sticky but since Katie want to try it .. why not!!

They also serve Sticky rice with any other local fruit like Durian and and coconut. Personally, i prefer eating those fruit alone without rice!!

But for those who really want to try this ... don't be hesitate!! 

Recreational Bukit Ayer, Perlis

The best part of this journey ... entering Thailand through Padang Besar (Thailand-Kedah Border). 

Its so exciting!!

Refreshing & original taste of Sugar Cane Drink... Love it!!

The super best part of the Journey .... Eating at one of the famous Steamboat (Stir-fry) restaurant in Danok..the concept of Eat-all-you-can was so worthy.  

Variety of choices and the food was superb!!

Pork was the best food ever!! Bacon ( slices of pork) was so tempting and YUMMY!!

I ate it as if there is no tomorrow ... LOL

Its only cost us RM23 per head. Lucky enough we can choose to pay in Thai Baht or in Malaysia Ringgit. Worth with Delicious food!!

Things that i did not enjoy doing in Danok, Thailand... Experiencing the Tiger Show. 

I felt pity for those girls who doing the show on stage. The audience of course was man!! 

The place did not allowed us to take pictures but i did had few quick snap of those girls. 

But i was wondering is they were really "girls" or "she-male"??? since Thai is famous with those "kind"!!

I never ask and i don't want to know. As a women i felt pity for them. 

P/s: Spontaneous unplanned long Journey!! ~Adventurous Saturday!!~

~m3@~