The Great Outdoors

Kampar Sitiawan Roundabout !

The journey has just begun after our breakfast in Kampar's 36 stalls as the locals called it. This is just after the off-roadish route that Alexander leaded us through. Everyone was still in a jovial mood. We will be taking a left for a famous " Pan Mee " that Alexander mentioned.

We finally reached the "pan mee" place and it was just an hour before noon and the place was not open for business yet! So, we took a breather from the sun and rested here. Clement even took off his socks for drying after passing through the watery route on the outskirts of Kampar.

Pan Mee is served. Not bad actually, the texture of the noodle was good. A funny addition to the locals here is, you can have cockles added to the "pan mee". YES! cockles or " See hum ".

After the meal, we had to ride in the hot afternoon sun. It's going to be a long....long....long ride. The sun was scorching. Next destination, Kampong Gajah.

Look at the blue skies and everything nice! Drawback, it's going to burn our backs! Riders was disciplined and was riding in a single file.

Almost reaching Kampong Gajah. Waiting for the group to regroup. Yes! we regroup after every half an hour.

It was a long hot ride! Resting on the banks of an irrigation canal. We have passed Kg. Gajah and crossed the Kinta River a few kilometers back. Now taking a rest here before we move on.

A kaleidoscope of our ride on the off-road section. This was the toughest part of our ride, a whole 25 kilometers of riding on gravel roads. We were lucky as there was no technical faults or punctures. Took us more than 3 hours to complete the 25 kilometers. It was not supposed to be this far but nowadays, selfish plantation owners barricades their plantations and we were cut off from the actual route.

Finally reached the villa at almost 9.00pm. This picture was taken the next morning. Was not in the mood to take pictures when we reached Sitiawan. We were riding from morning till nightfall and todays total mileage was 100 kilometers. OK, it was actually 99.97 kilometers, hahahaa! I had a puncture just after coming out to tarmac roads.

Gan bought cold beers from the mini mart was was very conveniently located just opposite the villa. That was the best beer I had for a long time.

We took our bath, rested and then walked out to a food court which was walking distance away. Had more beers and some food before we rested for the night.

For the next part.