Sungai Lembing is a small town located 42km northwest of Kuantan. Mining was once the main industry in this town, it was then taken by tourism.
This place is just nice for 2 days 2 nights tour by visiting Rainbow Waterfall in the morning of first day and having Bukit Panorama sunrise watching on the next morning.
Rainbow Waterfall 彩虹瀑布
As you can see from the name, this waterfall is something related to rainbow. Yes, if you are lucky, you can witness a beautiful scenery where rainbow is formed upon the waterfall.
You need to hire a tour guide for this activity. The cost is around RM40 per person, the more people you have, the lesser you pay. The tour guide will drive you to the entrance of the trekking path using a 4wd and will also lead you to reach to the waterfall.
No worries, the difficulty of the trekking path is easy, weak guy like me can overcome it too.
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| The Journey |
Climb up and down .... for around 45 minutes if my memory serves me well.... finally, reaching the destination.
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| The Waterfall |
A cup of hot drink (milo/coffee) and a cup mee were served by the tour guide. He prepared it using water from the waterfall. Too bad the weather was cloudy , could not spot any rainbow...
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Sunrise watching at Bukit Panorama is a must-do activity in Sungai Lembing.The main attraction here is not the sunrise but cloudsea （云海）around the mountain. The cloudsea will be very beautiful if you are lucky to see a burning sunrise. Too bad, i was unlucky too...
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| Top Left: Cloudsea; Top Right: Group Photo; Bottom Left: Sunrise; Bottom Right: Entrance |
Food
The small town serves inexpensive and delicious foods too.
1.)Lin Ming Mian (林明面） and Shan Shui Yong Taufu （山水酿豆腐）
After a tiring hike to Bukit Panorama, you can reward yourself with the
well-known Lin Ming Mian and San Shui Yong Taufu. They can be found in
the pasar. Lin Ming Mian looks like those ordinary yellow mee that found
in hawker stalls, but it is free from Gan Shui
taste that is usually tasted in yellow mee. Besides, it's also more
chewy. San Shui Yong Taufu is made using San Shui (Mountain Water). This
is the reason why the taufu is so nice to eat.
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| Left: Lin Ming Mian; Right: San Shui Yong Taufu |
There are other cooking styles also, with ketchup and chili...
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| Left: Ketchup; Right: Chili |
You can pay a visit to the factory where Lin Ming Mian is produced. Don't forget to buy few packs of raw Lin Ming Mian as souvenir.
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| Lin Ming Mian Factory |
2.)Malay Noodles
This malay warung is not well known by outsiders, it was introduced by our tour guide.I think it is located near to the entrance to Sungai Lembing town.
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| The Warung |
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| Unidentified Noodles (I forgot what I ordered) |
3) Others
Fish - The dish has a super long name, which is called 林明山水尼罗红豪华芒果蒸.Available at Hao Hua (豪华）restaurant (which is not luxury) that is located behind the pasar.
Roast Pork - We ordered this from the boss of the guest house. It's so juicy. Very nice! Try to ask around if you are looking for this.
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| Left: Dish with Long Name; Right: Juicy Roast Pork |
Souvenir - Souvenir shops can be found easily in Sungai Lembing. Coconut biscuit, and other random biscuits... Since there are so many choices, you have to taste those souvenir/biscuits yourselves to judge the one that is worth to buy....
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| Biscuit Shop |
Staying here is relaxing and comfortable, with budget less than RM200 for 2 days 2 nights....
