Road Trip to Awana Kijal - Day 1

8-10 July saw us on a road trip to Terengganu for a 3D2N stay at the Awana Kijal Golf, Beach and Spa Resort. It was my maiden trip to the east coast. We went there with Koo-koo and Koo-jeong. Armed with a navigation system borrowed from Kau-foo, we pretty much relied on it throughout our entire trip there.

Got GPS, will explore!

We started our journey from home at about 7am. Our first stop was a McD near Gombak where we had our breakfast. I had pancakes with butter and syrup. After that, it was a very long drive all the way to Cukai, Terengganu where we stopped for a light lunch at Hai Peng, a popular kopitiam among the locals.

Peanut-butter, honey and banana toast, nasi lemak and a plate of HP Special fries

We then continued our journey to the resort, which was located in the Kemaman district of Terengganu.

Are we there yet? Well, almost...

After 5+ hours on the road (including a few brief stops), we finally arrived at the resort. It was close to 1pm. We checked our rooms out and had a quick self-tour of the hotel.

Our room... the bathroom had a window which opened up to the room. I enjoyed climbing in and out of the bathtub, through the window, into the room and back (like a playground).

Left: Tree-view from our room on the 3rd floor (it was actually seaview if given a room on a higher floor) Right: Swimming pool view from the 6th floor of Koo-koo's room

Some pics of the hotel. Overall, it was very pleasant, clean and comfortable.

Wasting no time, we immediately headed to the beach! Yes, we spent the whole afternoon and evening (from 2-7pm) basking in the sun. Well, not really, as the beach was actually quite shady. Nevertheless, mummy slathered a generous layer of sunblock on me and told me to put on my sunnies and cap.

Let's go to the beach! (Posing on the giant chess board in the garden of the hotel)

Beautiful!!

Mummy's butt got "stuck" to this chair. She actually spent hours sitting here, feasting her eyes on the lovely beach, enjoying the sea breeze and practically doing nothing. Aaaaaah... heavenly!

I love the beach but I don't like the sand and the sea hahaha!

At first, I was reluctant to step on the sand. I didn't like the sandy feet feeling :(

Daddy threatened to throw me into the sea if I didn't behave haha!

The beach was very clean... absolutely beautiful!

Later, I warmed up to the sand and played with it. Much later, I even took off my shoes and fell in love with it haha!

It was so windy that daddy couldn't resist not flying a kite. He quickly ran the the car (the kite is permanently kept in the trunk of the car) to get the kite!

Later in the evening, we swam in the hotel's very huge, sprawling swimming pool

Daddy and mummy became kids again... playing in the kiddy pool with me hehe!

The water in the pool was quite warm... nice!

I was famished at dinner time. While waiting for daddy and mummy to shower and get ready for dinner, I downed 2 slices of Gardenia Butterscotch bread (brought from home) while watching Mr Bean on tv in the hotel room. Shortly after that, at the restaurant, I went on to sapu almost the whole plate of rice with the following dishes:

Crab omelette, ginger onion fish slices, crabmeat tofu & mixed vegetables from the Grandview Restaurant, which was just a stone's throw away from the hotel

After dinner, we drove to Kerteh (20 mins away) to view the lights of the Kompleks Industri Petroleum Petronas.

The whole place was very beautifully lit-up indeed. It was a sight to behold!

Unfortunately, our camera was not canggih enough to capture the awesome lights

It was so nice that daddy made a U-turn, stopped somewhere to change driver (asking Koo-jeong to take over the wheel) and we drove along the same stretch twice so that we could view the place again! Of course, I missed everything. I fell asleep immediately after entering the car and slept throughout this sight-seeing trip. So much for skipping my afternoon nap :(