The trip to Kuala Gandah

Lately I've been looking my life and my country from a different perspective. Not sure it's about the age or my hormone but yeah something has just gotten into me.

It's started with our trip to Mentakab last 2 weeks to visit cute little new born named Faheem. So cute that I want a new baby now! hehe...OK to get a new baby need to work on it..so hubby please take note :p. Anyway we were told about an activity that we can actually do in Kuala Gandah which is pretty near from Mentakab. Go to Elephant Sanctuary ...wow never cross my mind to find elephants in our own country..(of course we have them in our jungle). But sometimes we are too focus to find something from another country and forget what we have in our own beautiful country. Well see what we found ;)

We headed straight to Kuala Gandah and reach there around 3pm. Suppose if you reach earlier you can prob grab a FREE ticket, I repeat a FREE!!! ticket to ride the elephant and bath with the elephant! How interesting is that...The show start at 2pm everyday and only 100 ticket produce everyday for you to participate. But nevermind if you missed that out as you can still see the elephants and perhaps feed them like what we did.

My kids are very passionate in feeding the animals. I think in general kids just loves animal. We bought some peanuts (cost around RM3 I think) and they have a blast feeding the elephants. According to the worker there, all these elephants were saved from the villages either they were hurt bitten by tiger or left by their herd. So the sanctuary is really a sanctuary for the elephants.
Of course for us being in environment that try to improve almost everything has came out with lot's of idea and suggestion on how we can improve the place. But we just come to our sense that well maybe just enjoy what we can and leave things as it is hehe. At least something is being done and we definitely enjoy it.

Near to the Elephant Sanctuary they are another place called Deer Land. This one is a private one small animal farm and the entry rate is RM6 per adult and RM3 per child. Inside we are given chance to feed the deer and you can see how thrilled the kids are...including hubby. After feeding the deer we can actually go into the cage and have up close and personal momment with them and feed them again. Pretty interesting...We get to see many2 type of birds...peacock, wild cat, ular sawa, monkeys (yg ni si kenit2 tak heran) and also sun bear. Some of them are not really in the cage and we can actually touch them, like the ular sawa and the sun bear.
Can you spot the ular sawa from here?
Fawwaz is terrified with the snakes hehe...
The sunbear above was saved from Jerantut Pahang. I find it's interesting to know that almost all the animals is from Malaysia and the story about how they being saved and where are they coming from sounds very homely to me.

All in all is a great trip. We enjoy it so much. Week after the Kuala Gandah trip we went to Lata Kijang just to mandi air terjun. Well that is another story to share next time but we are sure that we going to start visiting all other interesting place around Malaysia and to have fun Malaysian style :)