“Unlocking Bliss in Nature’s Embrace: My Inspiring Journey with ‘JOY Hiking’ 🌿☀️
Discover my rejuvenating Sunday mornings amidst nature’s beauty, immersing in the ‘JOY Hiking’ experience. Even after enduring long work hours, I mustered the energy to join this adventurous hike with a group of vibrant and enthusiastic individuals.
Embarking on a 50-minute drive from Kuala Lumpur to Seremban, the anticipation of being with nature heightened my spirits. Meeting Sifu Nathanji and his delightful wife infused the morning with laughter and camaraderie.
As we set out on a different trail towards Kepayang Hill, the excitement soared. Touching leaves, embracing trees, and absorbing the greenery, I felt an inner joy long concealed. The forest’s allure was magnetic, invigorating my being with every step.
Engaging in light-hearted banter while hiking, I not only enjoyed the company but also honed my hiking skills. The journey led us to a serene temple at the peak, allowing us to embrace the profound silence and marvel at nature’s splendor.
Sifu’s wisdom on meditation struck a chord—connecting with the universe in our unique way is the essence. During a peaceful 15-minute meditation, we received messages from the universe, adding a spiritual dimension to the hike.
Continuing our hike, we stumbled upon a family-run coffee and juice spot, savoring the delicious offerings amidst the breathtaking scenery. ‘JOY Hiking’ epitomizes reconnecting with nature and, more importantly, discovering the happiness and love within oneself.
It’s a revelation—our natural state is one of love, joy, and boundless happiness. Join me in this enchanting journey of self-discovery and blissful connection with nature. 🌳✨ #JOYHiking #NatureLovers #InnerJoy”
I was very eager to go to another place which is apart from Malaysia.
Then I asked few of my solo travels I met during the Sabah Travel, they mentioned they are heading to EL Nido for their next adventure.
I realized that that’s an amazing place to visit as I started googling about it and it was one of the amazing places in the world.
It is called Beauty of Island , El Nido. The place is truly magical and I feel everyone should visit this place at least once in their lifetime.
Let me break into pieces from Kuala Lumpur Airport to El Nido.
I booked a flight from Kuala Lumpur Airport to Puerto Princesa International Airport. Just a heads up guys, one of the underground river is at Puerto Princesa, however my focus for the travel was El Nido.
The travel was completely different for me as it was my first time travelling alone to another country. After I reached Puerto Princesa, I had to take a minivan which will take another 6 hours to reach El Nido. I would say the drive were crazyyyyyy because the drivers will drive really fast, be ready for a roller coaster ride….hahahaha
You may want to take a look at there. I stayed there for a couple of days there. To be very honest, I didn’t really plan that much to travel at El Nido because my heart says go with the flow for this travel.
Only one was a confirmed plan which is to experience Tour A and C at El Nido. It was very easy as well for me to book that as well, I just booked at the same hostel itself.
The tour will take an entire day to experience, I went with a group of people I never have met before, all of them mostly from Europe countries and guess what all of them looked so amazing, cute and handsome men. Yes, it was amazinggg to hang around with a bunch of unknown people and just start the conversations.
I loved Tour C more than A because it was more challenging, most importantly I don’t know how to swim at all, however, I did swim there at the ocean with the safety jacket and there was one of the member from the Frendz Hostel who was helping me for the swimming and also diving all day for the entire tour.
The famous food at Philipines is pork, and yes I did try. I loved their food and I tried many other foods there as well.
I would that was one of the amazing life I had just waking up to the island and having fun. I would say the water were just very beautiful.
Apart from going to tour, I did tried something else for example: Rock Climbing and Canopy Walk
I never knew I love my own company so much, I also went for a dance competition done by the locals as well. They were just having fun about their life and spending quality time with their friends and family.
That’s when I realised that people in Philipines take life very easy and happy unlike oppps those in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia.
I was shocked when one of the locals I spoke to said that he seldom use his phone.
During my last day of my journey, I decided to visit caves as I also love caves, therefore I went to Tour B as well to visit caves.
The whole entire travel was just go with the flow and follow your heart!!
I was thinking of going for a countdown for the new year eve celebration but it didn’t really happen, probably Nature wants me to spend time with myself, therefore, I decided to write the lessons I learned over the year 2022.
I wanted to focus on the TOP 5 Lessons I Learned from the Year 2022:
Life is very simple, don’t take so serious
This year was one of the years where I didn’t pressure myself and do my tasks but surprisingly I got more things done and achieved a lot more than any other year. I learned the more I flow with Nature, the more I attract whatever I desire in my life.
Follow your heart, don’t entertain your mind
“Your heart has the blueprint of your life”: said my mentor a long time ago. The journey of following your heart is really a long way but this year I focus on doing it more regardless of what other people tell me to do. There’s a slight line between ego and following heart, I do fall into the trap of EGO as well then nature gives me the lesson back to be on track.
Spend valuable time with family and close friends
I came out of my comfort zone to meet different types of friends and open my mind with the conversations. I always have this thought in myself that people see me weird and I can’t mingle with any conversations. Yes, all these thoughts are just in my head only. I slowly removed judgment from friends I spoke to, slowly it became a beautiful journey because whenever they speak to me they feel like reflecting on themselves and I stopped giving advice to them instead just listening without being emotionally involved in their conversations.
Travel more, be wild and adventurous
I just realized that I traveled five times in a year. Out of that, two were solo traveling to a place further than what I used to do. One of the decisions that makes me feel myself, even now when typing I’m smiling widely, being happy just thinking about all the experiences I had and the places I went there. I learned so much about myself and how closed-minded I was. I also realized that my programming of certain things is right and wrong is very strong in me. After all we all are from the source which means we are all connected with each other.
Take the leap of faith and start something new
I learned over the years that I don’t have to figure things out even before I start doing something, along the journey, it will fall into places. The most important thing is for me to do it (means put the actions) not just thinking or talking only. I made quite a number of decisions in my life which at first made me very uncomfortable but I took the actions, and was so happy I made a choice.
I hope my lessons have made you go down your memory lane and see the bright side of your life in the year 2022. Cheers for amazing growth in 2023.
Beautiful human beings are reading this!! Welcome to my space.
This blog post is a continuation of last blog post on Solo Traveling to Sabah, Malaysia Part 1, if you haven’t read it, please go on and read the blog for yourself before proceeding with this one.
Day 3
Checked out Nulu View Cabin
Went for ATV Adventure
Went to Paragliding Site
Drove back to Kota Kinabalu Airport
My morning starts very beautifully with the mountain view and chill air breeze. I just took a stool out at the Nulu View Cabin, there was some amazing infrastructure which was built a long time ago. I spent some time taking pictures there and just living in the present moment.
View at Nulu View Cabin
After that I headed for the check out at the Nulu View Cabin, for staying there you need to pay RM 100 for a refundable deposit, then I took it back. I also tortured the host to take pictures for me and he took all the places I asked to and he gave me suggestions as well.
I drove my car back to ATV Adventure, now a little smarter, took the correct turn then drove to the place. I was super early for the activity. So I just took some time relaxing in the car while gazing at the mountains. Also I used that time to call my mom and update her on what happened so far. She was so excited for my adventure, then it made me realize that it was one of her characters which I portray so much which is being adventurous.
After a while, I saw 3 young ladies dropped off from a car. All 3 of them looked very fun, and I assumed surely they came for the ATV Adventure. So I also got out of my car and had my opening conversation with them. It turns out they came all the way from Singapore for a holiday at Sabah.
These Malay ladies were awesome, they started chatting with me as if they had known me for a long time. So I was having amazing conversations with them learning about their country and all.
After like 20 minutes, the ATV Adventure coach came by and we all started to wear our safety equipment before we started riding.
I was super excited as this is my first ATV Adventure and the coach told me that this adventure will be quite different because there will be alot of holes and the surface is muddy. I was YESSSSS, adventure stuff, then the coach called me and asked me if this is the first time you want someone to ride for you and you sit at the back, I told no no I will do it on my own.
I would say that was one of the amazing experiences of my life. So we drove the ATV for almost an hour altogether then we had a pit stop where we had to hike up to SOSODIKAN HILL. It was so surreal up there and I was already very excited and at the same time as scary as it was uphill. I took some time to take some of the beautiful pictures with the help of new friends I met.
ATV Adventure at Sosodikon Hill
Right after this ride, I drove my car to the Paragliding Site which was one of the most awaited activities I wanted to experience as well. Driving into the site itself was very adventurous and finally I arrived. I registered and was eagerly waiting for my paragliding instructor, we had to drive a little higher to reach the site.
Kring, kringggggg…..the phone buzzed. It was the instructor’s phone, he was speaking in Malay Language, I can hear words like “weather” “cloudy” “not safe” Then he hang up the phone and turn around and said “I’m sorry we can’t paraglide today because the weather is not promising, either we will have trouble in landing down or we might get lost if we still persist to perform paraglide. At that moment, I felt awwwww I was so excited but I also accepted the circumstances, maybe I’m yet to be ready for that. The time will come one day, maybe it just is not this day.
So we took a picture together at the paragliding site without really paragliding….hahahaha
Me with my Paragliding Coach
Then I drove back to Kota Kinabalu Airport to catch my flight at 5.30pm. I went there a bit early and had lunch over McDonalds after returning the car back to the owner. After having a good meal, I queued up to enter the checkpoint. Another funny thing happened during that period which is I forgot to keep a small receipt the police officer asked me to hold during my arrival at Kota Kinabalu in my handbag. I kept that in my luggage instead, by now it would have been at the cargo.
The police officer looked at me and gave me the stare “How ridiculous you can be, young lady?” Then he told me quickly go and do a police report and bring back the letter to me, after that only you are allowed to get into the plane. I was like after my sadness about paragliding, this took place as well.
I literally ran as fast as I could from one corner to another corner, luckily the police station was inside the airport, so I made the report. The police officer who took the complaint was having time to make jokes and ask if I’m all alone here and all. Then I ran back and finally got into the plane.
I sat beside a cute guy probably in his late 30’s. We were having some conversations while waiting for the plane to take off. Normally the plane takes off after a few minutes, however, this plane was not taking off. Then all the passengers started being uncomfortable. For the first time I heard the captain speaking on the plane’s speaker stating that we are having some technical problem to take off, so heading back to the main airport site. After like 30 minutes, then we went back to take off, again we had problems taking off, so went back to the airport. But among all this, I had a great time talking to this guy, we didn’t ask our names but the moment was very nice, he was a consultant. He shared with me a lot of amazing experiences of his travelling and his friends’ travel experience. We became good friends.
Then we all went back to the airport waiting for the next flight, it was delayed and they gave me few options. I took the next day 11.35am so it shows how Sabah loved me so much and made me stay another day there. The best part was all the food, transportation and accommodations, all of them were taken care of by the airline industry. I made friends with the driver again and he sent me back to the hotel safely.
The next day I also got the voucher for the morning breakfast buffet. I had breakfast with a group of people who were a bit older, I was just with them as well. Then one of them in the group started to have a conversation with me, only to find out that all of them were retired principals from secondary school. I learned alot from them, it was indeed an amazing conversation.
I went back home safely on the way back home. If I want to sum up Sabah, it is unconditional love.
It has been really quite some time sharing my experiences. My heart wanted me to share my recent solo traveling with everyone out there.
This year’s trip was very close to my heart because it is one of my bucket list holidays to Sabah on my own. Every year as my birthday gift, I bring myself out to experience a different country or state. Today I’m sharing each and everything that happens during my SOLO TRAVELING TO SABAH, specifically to Kundasang.
I’m sharing my itinerary for my 3 days and 2 nights which then become 4 days and 3 nights, I will let you all know why that happened.
DAY 1
Depart from Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Reached Kota Kinabalu Airport
Checked in FALOE HOSTEL
Watch sunset at Tanjung Aru Beach
I was very thrilled to take the flight after 10 years, YES, after so many years. My heart was literally screaming when I saw the flight coming towards me, I book Malaysia Airlines as the price was slightly cheaper than AirAsia…hehehe
Kuala Lumpur International Airport
Then I sat in between 2 Chinese Old Men. I was very happy actually sitting in the plane and the 2 hrs 30 minutes journey was quite fast for me, I enjoyed the meal as well. It was a smooth journey by the way and one funny thing was I couldn’t unlock it with my safety belt, how funny right? Then the guy beside me helped me and he laughed at me as well.
Once I reached KK Airport, I was waiting for the driver I book few months ago from https://www.economybookings.com/, it is an international website for car rental, however, no one came, I was quite pissed off when no one contacted and picked even after I paid the booking amount, till date it is not refunded, haiizzz.
Luckily KK was quite similar to KL, they had many other services, GRAB is available, so I booked immediately and went to my favourite hostel – Faloe Hostel https://faloehostel.business.site/ , if you are staying at KK, I would really recommend to stay there, it’s cheap and most importantly they are super friendly. I loved everyone there, we had an amazing chat and dinner given by the host. I was having one of the best days of my life. Since all of them were travellers as well, our conversations were all about that and I met an amazing young lady (solo female traveller), the moment I met her my heart wanted to talk to her more and learn from her. She went to quite a number of Asia countries, but what changed my mind is that she goes to that respective country for some part time/contract based work and travels there, once the money is all used up she applies for some other job, then continues travelling. I felt this “She’s living her life, man”.
Me and Ivy (Host of the Faloe Hostel)
A few weeks later, she came to Kuala Lumpur and I met her again. We went to an Indian Restaurant. I would say I have never done something like this in my life before but since my heart asked me to do so, I did. Our conversation was amazing and she told me that she’s going to bring me to her farm when I go back to England.
Me and Beccy (Female Solo Traveller), met her at Faloe Hostel
On the same day at KK, I went to visit Tanjung Aru Beach for sunset, it was a really beautiful view, you can just sit and watch it all day long. And again I met amazing people there, a lady saw me struggling to take pictures alone, she and her daughters helped me to take a video of me and pictures. She was so kind until she texted me from her daughters’ phone and literally continued to text me every day making sure I’m okie, such a beautiful soul.
Sunset at Tanjung Aru BeachMe in my beautiful dress
Oops I forgot to mention how I went from the hostel to the beach. I rented a car on the spot the moment the previous rental services were not provided, luckily he said I got a car, then I took Almera, the price was quite reasonable and was fast too.
Day 1 was just starting and it was already going amazing. I met so many beautiful souls and my heart melted when I saw mountains as I’m a mountain person.
DAY 2
Depart from Faloe Hostel
Drove to Kundasang
Visited Desa Dairy Farm
Visited Sabah Tea Garden
Checked in at Nulu View Cabin
My day started early in the morning at 5am driving from Kota Kinabalu to Kundasang. I woke up and I was looking for my phone charger because my phone was running out of battery. I panicked a little because without that I couldn’t drive to Kundasang, I must use WAZE some more.
I took some deep breaths and finally got my charger, and left my beautiful hostel around 5.30am. One of the most frightening experiences for me was also when I wanted to pay the parking ticket, I had to walk from one building to another, it was still dark and I saw one guy who was mentally ill was walking towards me and shouting. No matter how strong I was, at that moment I felt very scared but I have faith in Nature and told myself he’s also the same as me, a human being so I just acted normal and paid my parking ticket at the machine.
I drove for almost 2hrs 30 minutes on the road to Kundasang, but it didn’t feel like that at all because the scenery was so beautiful. That experience can’t be described through words, must only be experienced by each one of you. I had an amazing sunrise view as I was driving, I drove slowly as that place is not something I used to drive. I had so much fun by myself and reached another GEM place at Kundasang which is Desa Dairy Farm. It looks like a mini New Zealand to be honest. I just fell in love with the entire place because I love mountains and I felt like I just wanted to live there.
Desa Dairy Farm, Kundasang
The wind breeze was cold and the view of the mountains was mind blowing. At that moment I believed in love at first sight. In the farm you can be there until 4pm and take pictures wherever you want. Since I was traveling solo, I made plenty of friends there without knowing their names. I also ate their natural yogurt ice cream which was amazing. That place is where you can buy fresh milk and drink immediately. I also look at how the milks were processed in the large tunnel.
I would suggest if you are going to that place, do bring along a jacket to cover yourself as it is very cold there.
After spending a few hours there, I went to visit the Sabah Tea Garden. I love tea. It was quite huge but when I went there the factory was closed, so I couldn’t look at the process of making tea, so I just took some pictures and came back to a restaurant where there was tea and other food, I took my lunch and I would say drinking the natural tea was amazing. The taste was extremely good and I just felt like flying already.
Sabah Tea Garden
I head to another place of stay which is Nulu View Cabin. This place is really located uphill where your view will be like in front of the mountains. However, the road to reach there was extremely steep, since I love adventure, so I still drove and parked my car there. It was a very peaceful place to stay and have fun. I took a quick nap before heading to my next agenda which is ATV Adventure.
View from my staying place at Nulu View Cabin
I would say the experience that I’m about to share is one of the amazing experiences I had in this entire trip, almost it could have been a near death experience. Don’t be scared guys, I’m still fine and it was worthwhile to be really honest with you all. The drive from Nulu View Cabin to the ATV Adventure should only be 15 minutes away but my waze showed me an hour journey just because I took left instead of right at the first junction. I texted my ATV coach that I would be coming late, but the waze kept on increasing the time.
I actually went to the wrong place, it was showing me to the uphill of the mountain. I was so dumb to just follow the Waze without thinking twice, the road was super muddy and step, I would say if you are not brave enough you wouldn’t want to drive into that kind of road but I did…..I’m really crazy person. I was passing by some gardeners and some weird places where trucks are kept, reminds me of movies where they kidnap people and keep them there. My thoughts were quite negative but I still enjoyed the scenery until a point where my heart felt like something was not right, so I stopped the car.
I came out of the car to see what was in front, it was a CLIFF, yes a CLIFF, if only I didn’t stop the car I would have fallen into the cliff and could never have been found. I took deep breaths when I was at that place to calm myself down and think of a solution. I was almost in tears because no one was there, literally no human beings. However, I believe in Nature so I reversed the car and drove down the hill, then my car tire got stuck in the mud.
That was another challenge, I was hoping someone would come and help me because I couldn’t reverse at all. I really experienced that Nature was guiding me when a mid-age man came by motorcycle, I stopped him for help. He told me that he doesn’t know how to drive a car. We waited for sometime, a car arrived. I just felt another angel come and helped me. The other guy helped me to reverse the car from the mud and I got back on track. At that moment, I really experienced what humbling means and really being vulnerable to other human beings. The motorcycle guy showed me the way down the hill.
I safely landed on the road. I would say Sabah people are amazinggggg, they help people when someone is in trouble without thinking twice at all.
I was not ok after that incident and I decided not to go anywhere after that. I texted my brother about this incident and he asked me to be careful next time and be more alert with my own surroundings.
I rested at the Nulu View Cabin the entire day and enjoyed the view. I was meditating and also reflecting about myself at that moment. Actually I was happy I got to experience that lesson and view life very differently.
I hope you have enjoyed my experiences so far for DAY 1 and DAY 2, I will be continuing my solo traveling journey for the remaining two days in the next blog.
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I love learning about myself in everything I do, be it my business, career, spending time with family and many more. One of the major activities that hits my self-awareness is traveling.
I have written two articles on solo traveling, this is a continuation of those articles, if you haven’t read it yet then you should start reading before heading to this article!!
I’m always excited about life as a whole because I observe many people’s lives since young, some are happy with their simple and happy life, some are extremely wealthy but no peace of mind and unhappy with life, some are in between, at times happy at time struggles, and I’m so grateful that I could observe all of this and create my own life with my own definition of fulfilling life.
Travel has always been my way of learning about myself at a deeper level and what would you say if it’s solo traveling, you even learn about it even further!!
Let’s dive into lessons I learned about myself:
My thoughts are extremely important
Being raised in a middle-class Indian Family, I was always told to be pessimistic in everything and it becomes even worse when you are a girl, take care of your safety at all times.
I thought I’m very brave living on my own, however the thoughts that I have planted since young, my older programming haunted me back when I was solo-traveling. I fear if something bad happens, also it was raining heavily, maybe a tsunami, all these funny thoughts came about, I had to keep calm and tell myself that I have set a very strong end goal. Everything will be fine!!
I attract people and events that have the same vibration as myself. And that totally happened. I attracted so many wonderful people who were willingly sharing their life experiences with me, for example, the guy at the Adventure Park.
I’m very afraid to talk to strangers
Could you ever imagine that I was staying still for 20 minutes just waiting for someone to take a picture of me at this beautiful place?
I was even at my own place eating and gazing at the beautiful scenery out there.
However, I took the courage to talk with them because I feel being an entrepreneur one of the characteristics you need to have is being a friendly and easy going person.
Take your life simple and easy
Oftentimes, I take things very seriously in my life like always racing for something and competing with someone. After the holiday, I realized there’s no need to race because in the end we are all going to live this place right.
Life is extremely beautiful and there’s so much for you to explore and learn, isn’t it and are we acting like one. Ask yourself?
When you know yourself better, you understand others better.
I tend to feel very understanding and compassionate to others when I know more about myself. My perceptions change when I see someone behave in a certain way because all this while I thought everyone needs to conform to what I think right, however, accepting them as who they are is the best.
I’m a very adventurous person
This solo trip has made me realize that I’m one of the crazy people who does some extreme activities such as bungee jumping. Yes, I did right after this solo trip. I was also equally excited to go into places like nature where there’s very limited people.
I’m truly grateful for each and everyone who is reading this piece of my journey of self-discovery. If you have not started solo traveling yet. You should do one very soon!!
With love,
Laavannya
Founder of Crazy Geek and Warrior Consultancy and Learning
Solo Travelling was one of the best decision I made in my life. I’m a travel freak however many times my own thoughts sabotage me and I live in fears. In December 2021, I took this bold decision to drive on my own and live on my own. I love spending time with myself alot, luckily I have an amazing relationship with myself!! So it wasn’t difficult for me to spend every seconds all by myself.
Just imagine that with yourself while listening to my story. You are with yourself in your favourite place with the favourite food and activities. Visualize that and soon share with me your solo travelling experience with me. Let’s dive into my SOLO TRAVELLING to Colmar Tropicale Bukit Tinggi Pahang, Malaysia. If you are in Malaysia, do take yourself to this trip on your own.
In this write-up, I’m going to share with you exactly how I felt and thoughts I had during the solo travelling.
Before reaching the Colmar Tropicale
I was driving my car bursting the loud sounds of my favourite songs, if you are Indian or if you like melody songs, check out this Oscar Award Winner, Mr. AR RAHMAN (my favourite music composer and singer). I’m also very intrigued with his way of living as he’s also a very spiritual person and fun fact: We share the same birth number 6. Here’s his Youtube Chanel:
It took almost 45 minutes from my place to the destination. It was fairly short trip but I loved every moment. The roads were not so easy because at that point of time was when Malaysia was badly affected by flood and as parents (both my mom and dad) were very concerned about my safety. I would say yes it was not very safe when I’m almost nearing the place as I could see trees and branches were on the road in which I had to de-tour and find my own way to get back to the place that I wanted.
Along the journey, a person like me who loves nature and green sceneries, I was falling in love while I was travelling. Living up in a city like Kuala Lumpur, I’m always surrounded with tall and high-tech buildings where seeing a Natural Tree is like so rare!! I could even feel how I felt at that time even though I’m tying this story after 2 months, that’s how surreal it was for me.
It is being inspired from the buildings in Colmar, France.
Me at Colmar Tropicale, Bukit Tinggi
I was so excited until I forgot to take the video or picture of entering the place. And since I’m staying at Colmar itself, the parking was FREE. I booked using AGODA website (travel booking website) but I paid for 2 persons because there’s no one person room there, yes you might feel it’s little expensive for ONE person but I’m the kind of person who values the experience more than the money. So I invested in my solo travelling to learn about myself. Isn’t it amazing!!
Once I’m in, I got my room and it was pretty interesting as the card was in French, I learned French when I was in college, now I realised how that knowledge can be applied now during my travel. I was very happy the moment I received the key. Also I saw a cute Indian guy working at the reception, hope he doesn’t read this blog….hahaha Once I got into my room, guess what I did. I slept off……YES, literally slept off but I put alarm so that I will wake up, I didn’t want to just waste my time sleeping coming to this beautiful place. I was there for 2 days 1 night. I rather prefer short trips then long trips!!
Once I took a quick nap, I head to one of the restaurant just below my room. The place is like all the food and other facilities are all just withing the building you are staying, so it was pretty safe as well. For most women, they fear safety, so for those who is travelling SOLO for first time, I would strongly suggest to go here first as it is very safe inside. Also watch your thoughts guys!! However, if you want to experience different activities like horse riding, adventure park, rabbit park and Japanese Village.
I made a mistake too, I thought I can go to Japanese Village and Rabbit Park without registering at the hotel. It is only after you have registered, you are given the complementary tickets for that 2 places.
Activities – Day 1
Horse Riding Lesson
I went for horse riding first as that needs to be paid separately not a complementary one. I always wanted to learn horse riding not just riding. I feel that’s a skill that needs to be learned and mastered. I paid RM 160 for 1 hour riding lesson, you may check out the price at the document I have attached for others.
Fees for Horse Riding
Some just prefer riding only not the lesson. Follow what your heart says!!
I would say I loved horse riding most importantly Bonita (Name of the horse), you need to sit straight and make sure you hold the rein correctly. I was struggling to hold the rein correctly but the instructor was so kind enough to teach me many times until I get it. So what I was learning during the 1 hour is mounting, seat balance on the horse, walking with the horse and learning how to hold the rein. Trust me just learning that you can actually sweat alot and the coach said horse riders must be fit and healthy. He also mentioned that he raised Bonita since it was born and until now. I could feel the bonding he has with Bonita. The pure love he has on it, it was unconditional and beautiful.
Adventure Park
There are few activities here, however when I went there due to heavy rain effect, flying fox was not allowed as one of the huge tree branch was stucked at the path. So I managed to only do Canopy walk, I didn’t do rock climbing because I still had fears to do that!! Canopy walk was testing my fears of height but I managed to go until the end of the bridge and when I came back, it was even more scary as the cars were driving below me. But I stayed very focused on the end goal and finished my activity. To add this, there were more activities as well such as archery and all. Do check out this website to know more!!
For me personally, my expectations were too high, I just saw like rabbits and birds and some other animals. It was not a very ful-filling visit but I enjoyed, I was having fun looking at young kids who were carrying the rabbits and padding it. I didn’t carry any but was busy taking pictures.
My favourite pose (Not sure what I was doing….hahaha)
Almost evening, I was spending time taking picture of my own and with the help of strangers. I was so amazed with the pictures taken by the strangers, they were having fun taking lovely and beautiful pictures of mine. I have been using that pictures for my social media posting. The place was very beautiful and I just took all the pictures with my android phone (Samsung), but it turned out to be amazing pictures.
Activities – Day 2
Japanese Village
I truly enjoyed this because it was a new experience for me. I experienced wearing Japanese Traditional Wear and I made good friend there, one of the girl I met was only in her Form 4 but her skills in photography was too good, she thought I’m in school too….hahaha….perks of being short and small……She was so excited to have amazing chat with me while taking pictures of me and her family. If I’m not mistaken, the price of renting the Japanese Attire was RM 20.00 and you can use for so many hours, the place was very beautiful. It was so green and there were beautiful waterfall as well a place where normally Japanese people will leave. If you had a chance going there, never miss to visit this!!
Me at the Japanese Village with the attire
However, the Botanical Garden and the Japanese Restaurant were closed. It’s okay we enjoy with what we have. I really enjoyed that place!!
Finally I had to leave this place to back home. It was full of love and amazing stuff I did, eventhough it was short I really enjoyed each and every moment there staying doing things along and connecting to myself at deeper levels. The thoughts and feelings I have without people around me. That’s far more important.
That’s all I have for this week!! Hope you enjoyed my writing. Will see you all soon with Lessons I Learned during Solo Travelling!
My heart has always bugged me to do something different but as I grew up my mind blocks also increased like fears, judgements from society, lack of confidence and many more. Solo travelling was ONE of them, I was like waiting someone to give permission for me to do that. I liked solitude and spending time with myself compared to being surrounded by many people unless I choose to be with.
It was in year 2019, I had an idea of travelling solo to any kind of place within Malaysia first before overseas. Then, pandemic struck in year 2020 and I just let Nature to take its course, patiently waiting for the right time to come. A year passed, then I made a decision I can’t be just thinking about solo travelling, I need to take the action. BOOMMM…..Malaysia Government allows domestic travelling.
If you ask me what is the first step I took before booking the hotel for my solo travelling is to follow and learn as many things as possible about solo travelling and places. Here are some of them who I follow to learn about solo travelling:
Never would I forget about clubhouse rooms (Download in App Store/Pay Store) where people discusses about solo travelling and earning while travelling. Isn’t it amazing to hear, so I get connected with these people and also jot down if there’s any tips I could apply for my own travelling.
It is vital when you are a woman travelling solo, as there are few important safety tips you want to just keep in your mind but don’t change your mindset that something bad will happen. Your end goal must be very strong as your holiday will go as per your thoughts, if FEAR is all you think of, then all the bad and unwanted things will happen to you. So, what I did also I watch my thoughts very closely when I’m travelling, what I think, feel and say. Because all that MATTERS a lot, trust me as I have experienced, certain places if I don’t feel like going, I don’t go even if I planned to go.
Some amazing safety tips I had when I was travelling:
Have own vehicle (if possible) Make sure you already do the check up for your car & petrol & toll
Have anything sharp /spray in your bag just incase (I didn’t have it because I had no FEARS) Highly recommended
Practice some kind of physical activity (for me is YOGA) – to make you stronger & alert with the surroundings
Feel more than think (Your intuition most times are CORRECT)
What I exactly did when decided to go for solo travelling?
Steps Taken….hahaha
Book the HOTEL once I pick the place (make sure that place is safe & you can get all you need within few kilometers away) I asked one of my friend who normally does solo travelling. She suggested this place Colmar Tropicale, Bukit Tinggi, Pahang, Malaysia. Such a beautiful gem!!
Only after I made the payment, I told my parents that I’m going for SOLO Travelling, guess what, they didn’t react as much as I thought in my mind. They were like when, how and make sure you send all the pictures on whever you are going and with whoever (mostly strangers).
Research on what are the activities I can do there, since I love adventures and stuff, that place has many like that, I always wanted to learn horse riding, and guess what I fall in love with the horse, BONITA and I liked the coach too…He was friendly and cute too!! Hope he doesn’t read this blog….hahaha
Set CLEAR END GOAL for your holiday. For me was doing NEW stuff, pick your purpose of holiday, some just want to go for eating purpose, just relaxing and some even doing work at different place.
Horse Riding Lesson at Bukit Tinggi, Pahang
Stay excited and connected with me. I will publishing my Part 2 – During Travelling and Part 3 – Lessons Learned from SOLO Travelling.
The almost two years of Covid lifestyle has been an eye opener and a world filled with variety of possibilities to be connected to Mother Earth once again like the olden days. With so many people isolated at home and the economy being wobbly, opting to the idea of growing their own food has been the greatest trend and still ongoing. Even during the Japanese and British occupation of Malaya, our forefathers grew crops for their daily meals. Have we ever thought to grow vegetables at home before? Most of us would always get in the car and drive to the nearest supermarkets to get our fruits and vegetables.
In the period of several lockdowns, gardening has become a self-soothing activity that decreases anxiety and helped with depression. The exposure to the outdoors in your own green space regulates the emotion and decrease the worrying nature in the brain. It has become a welcoming distraction in times of strife for my family and I.
Besides, gardening has been one of a physical exercise that helps with my mind. I’m sure you’re wondering how. Gardening is an activity that requires lots of energy to carry heavy pots around, bending down to for weeding, seeding, and etc. Adding on, since gardening is an activity mostly done on an outdoor space, you get to bask under the sun which has Vitamin D that is necessary for strengthening our bones and also regulates the mood.
Plants growth can always be compared to human life. It first sprouts, then followed by seedling, vegetative, budding, flowering and finally ripening. We too need to always form a foundation and work continuously to meet our end goals. These in fact requires focus, determination and grit. Gardening, in its complex way, delivers a balanced set of benefits. It’s at once a relaxing escape and a challenging obstacle to conquer.
Moreover, gardening has brought my family closer. It has created a sense of wholeness and a heart filled with happiness when you can share a common activity with each other. Every moment of this has been a precious one and I intend to keep it that way for a long time to come.
Gardening has been my family’s activity, what about yours? Feel free to share your stories.
“In the garden, nature goes on; it gets your mind off a lot of other things.”
Once again, I’m back to writing after such a long gap. It’s always the tendency to get over-busy with work, guiding students and every other tasks except for blogging, your favorite. Before me getting into the work for today, how y’all doing. I hope you are all at good health and working on your goals even though not every single day is going to be a good day but the hope and faith is always there. Just keep moving guys.
As always, I’m not going to nag or give some tips on how to gain followers or increase your exposure in social media but I’m going to share my own experience from no direction or goals being on social media to a person who is super active in social media to impact people’s life.
MY STORY
Three years back, I was this young teenager who were going to college and like every other so called “good student” only goal was to get good results in exams and hang out with friends whenever I have the time.
Fast forward 3 years, I have changed completely from the very shy to a very confident person with my own work and guiding others for their exams as well as being an entrepreneur. Social media wasn’t really a thing for me until the pandemic hits globally.
Apart from being a blogger, I also do have my own Youtube Channel, you may check out my cool channel.
Crazy Geek Youtube Channel
So, it all started when I have my goal on why do I want to be in this social media and having a very specific reason of being in each platform. I do set end goals for every feed post, story, video or audio. If you are not familiar with end goal, head to my other blog posts to know more about it.
Having a clear goal in each platform will really help you, like for me, since I’m an accountant, tutor, coach and also Youtuber, I do have specific goals in each of it.
Linkedin –> To connect with like-minded people and learn from them, getting leads for my ACCA Tutoring Classes
Instagram –> Share my own lifestyle and sometimes to just be the real me, crazy and fun me
Facebook –> For my ACCA Tutoring Marketing
Youtube –> To raise awareness on bridging the gap between what we study in college/school to what we apply at work
So do figure out first why you want to be in social media platform then put contents based on that. Trust the process and the journey even if no one really respond to your stories and feeds.
CONSISTENCY IS THE KEY
Never ever stop entirely from putting out your contents, it will definitely make your audiences to forget about you. Just keep doing, one of the lesson I learned in putting out contents are don’t attach yourself too much on the results. It will only drain you and give you negative energies. Instead focus on what type of value and content do you want to produce for your audiences.
VALUE YOUR FOLLOWERS
I have a huge respect for each and every follower regardless of what they need. I always try my level best to reply to all their messages and answer them as soon as possible when they need any kind of assistance. They are very important asset for each and every business you are creating or the brand you are raising.
HAVING A MENTOR
Talk to someone if you don’t feel good about your own self because the happiness within you will bring the success around you, so keep doing what you feel is good and letting all the negative thoughts and emotions panted up with you to someone so that you are feeling better and focus on your goals much better.
I guess that’s all for now. If you have any questions or just want to reach out to me. Just feel free to reach me, I would be so happy to be in your journey of achieving your goals.
Crazy Geek 