“Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your creator, another golden opportunity to complete what you were unable to finish yesterday. Be a self-starter. Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all. You were not born to fail.” ~by Og Mandino

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Southern trip on Sunday - Kukup & Tanjung Piai

Phew. We reach the coziest ever place by the end. It took us almost two hours to get home from our last destination of the day, which was Tanjung Piai. Well, it would actually spend you less than one hour to get home, only if you familier with the route and if there is no traffic jam along the way.

Kukup was the first place that we went to after lunch. It's a small fishing village located at the southwest of Johor and it's in the district of Pontian. This small fishing village is famous for its many wooden houses and chalets and restaurants built on stilts over the water. You rarely see this scenery in the city. Many tourists from Singapore and even the local people particularly come here for the seafood and for their weekends as well as their long holiday.

A mudskipper was out of muddy water and resting on a broken stilt.
A greedy mouse underneath.
Looking for something to eat?
Interesting caught up.
Some spectacular views round the Kukup.








Next, we proceeded to Tanjung Piai, the most southern tip of mainland Asia.


Long way to go before we could reach the end of the bridge.



Whew, finally there we were.


Various tiny fiddler crabs found in this huge boggy mangrove.
Heading to the Southen-most tip of Mainland Asia.
Oh Jesus. What a crazy hot weather!!


Watch out!
Oh, thanks God. We reached there by the end.


We both were completely exhausted by the time we reached the front door, and our feet are really ached and tired. We felt we could hardly move a step now. Tell you what; we have been WALKING at least 3km under the bloody sultry and burning weather today. I know sometimes 3km is nothing for some other people. May be they would think that this is just a piece of cake to them. Well, you know... We still prefer to travel a rather huge area by car instead. At least we could avoid the burning and harmful afternoon sunshine and stay cozy and peaceful in the car while enjoying all those beautiful sceneries. We are shielded in there.

We kept sweating all the time this afternoon, as though we were in the sauna room. I hated that nasty and sticky feel. It's just...yuck.

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