Go Local

Was at the MATTA fair this weekend with LP and we scoured every available booth selling packages to Egypt. Turned out the cheapest trip was going to blow our budget. Sigh. Blame it on the fuel hike. Malaysian Airlines' profitable route's gonna stay that way to bail out the rest of their no-gooders. Sheeesh...

We were pretty tired after walking around the two main halls and decided to eat instead. Started to exit the building when it began to drizzle. Looked as if we were in for a thunderstorm. So we went back inside and had nasi lemak instead.

By then both of us were fizzled out, LP from disappointment and I from hunger. I wasn't really that disappointed - God must have wanted me to steward my resources in other ways; by using the travel funds elsewhere. It's cool.

Anyways, we decided to go inside Hall 3 to see what's going on. They have some really nice local tours. LP spotted the Kenyir package. I wasn't really that keen, as I had been there before, trekked up the waterfall, visited the caves, survived a raging river with deep undercurrents, fell into the lake while riding the jetski, ran into a really frightening thunderstorm which almost sank our boat, camped at an elephant feeding site, etc, etc... (fun!)

So we booked the Kenyir package, which is open for occupancy all year. Great. Now we can drive across Peninsula and just lepak while sinking our teeth into all those wonderful Terengganu / Kelantan delicacies.