Eventhough I was born in the city of Kuala Lumpur, I lived most of my 28 years in the state of Selangor Darul Ehsan. During my younger years, we rented a house at Subang Jaya because my Dad was working as an Air Traffic Controller at Subang Airport, namely Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport. Years later when I was 3 years old, we moved to Klang, Royal Capital of Selangor.

Thristhan.com features interesting places that you can visit in Selangor. To start with, I would like to talk about I-City Shah Alam (Shah Alam is also the state capital of Selangor). I-City Shah Alam is a retail and commercial hub with advanced information-communication infrastructure in Section 8 Shah Alam, and to introduce this place, it has installed millions of LED lights to brighten up the night.

I-City Shah Alam

I-City Shah Alam

Bukit Cahaya Sri Alam (Bukit Cahaya Agricultural Park), which is also in Shah Alam is a place to promote the agricultural and forestation advancement in Malaysia. It hosts all sort of activities which consist of jungle tracking, camping, cactus farm, animal farm with parrots, deers, peacocks, horses, buffalos and many more. The highlight of Bukit Cahaya Sri Alam is the Four Season House where you get to experience Winter, Summer, Spring and Autumn here in Malaysia.

Bukit Cahaya Sri Alam

Tropical Fruit Garden

Animal Farm

Four Season House

Cactus Garden

Nearer Meru, which is about 15 minutes from Klang is a Shooting range called Klang Shooting Club. You have to sign up as a member in order to be able to access this area due to security issues. Experience using a Handgun is marvellous.

Klang Shooting Club

Klang Shooting Club

Malaysia has the biggest limestone caves in the world, Batu Caves is one of them. There are also alot of restaurant around Batu Caves who serve delicious Indian Cuisine. Inside the cave reside Indian temples where prayers are conducted.

Batu Caves Selangor

Batu Caves Selangor

Batu Caves Selangor

Just a few kilometers North of Selangor is a town called Sekinchan with vast paddy fields and windy atmosphere. This location is one of the biggest rice producers in Malaysia. Famous for fresh fruits like Mango, water apple (Jambu Air), Corn and Coconut Juice. Since Sekinchan is just beside the coast, it is also famous for Sea Food.

Sekinchan Selangor

Sekinchan Selangor

Sekinchan Selangor

Sekinchan Selangor

Food wise, Kajang Satay at Dengkil is a must try. Pulau Ketam near Port Klang is also a recommended place to eat seafood. Klang is famous for it’s Bah Kut Teh which is a herbal pork soupy dish, usually eaten with rice. If you’re around Kuala Selangor, try their famous Begger Chicken at Ijok town. The restaurant name is Ijok’s Begger Delicious Restaurant where each delicacy is marinated and wrapped in foil before heating it up in an underground oven.

Satay Kajang at Dengkil

Satay Kajang at Dengkil

Ijok's Begger Delicious Restaurant

Ijok's Begger Delicious Restaurant

As you have just witnessed, Selangor is a great state to chill at and I would surely recommend it as a tourist destination to all my friends locally and internationally.

I’m entering a competition to promote Selangor along with Selangor Tourism. Kindly vote for my post at www.myselangorstory.com so that I will be motivated to write more about this wonderful state. Thank you in advance

Our first stop during this Perak and Pahang Roadtrip was Sekinchan, selangor. This location is one of the biggest rice producers in Malaysia. They are also famous for fresh fruits like Mango, water apple (Jambu Air in Malay) and Corn. Might be slightly costly, but you do get a satisfying fruit.

Sekinchan Paddy Field

Sekinchan Paddy Field

Sekinchan Paddy Field with Kwang Young (Our Tour Guide)

When we got at the Paddy Field area, our friend too us to the inner part of the field. It was freaking huge. It was the bloom season, so the fields were bright green. It was so soothing to the eyes. We being posers decided to take some shots here. Which Turned out to be fantastic.

Sekinchan Paddy Field

There was also a shelter for the harvesting machines. They are huge and seem like one of the Transformer creatures.

Sekinchan Paddy Field

After that, we stopped at a Coconut seller who served fresh coconut juice. They had an option of chilled or warm coconut. I had to take the cold one as it was a sunny day.

Sekinchan Coconut Hut

Sekinchan Coconut Hut

After the photography session, we continued with Lunch. According to our tour guide (Mr Kwang Young, who was a local of this town), the seafood here is very good and affordable. Infact we later found out that it was much cheaper when compared to prices in Kuala Lumpur. We knew that if we were to order, we are going to get the mundane, so we decided to let the expert who knows the place well go for it. Kwang Young ordered a fried fish set, slightly spicy fish dish, a shark soup, a vege (potato leaf) and a crab soy sauce style stir. I’ll let the photos show you how good it was. And when the bill came we were surprised. RM70 for the lot. Thank you Kwang Young who treated us to this wonderful seafood lunch.

Sekinchan Seafood

Sekinchan Seafood

Me Enjoying The Crab

So finally we decided on a roadtrip. Initially planned for  a Singapore trip, but budget wise stopped us. Also we’re trying to cover Malaysia as a tourist attraction.

When we planned this trip, starting on Saturday morning of the 10th April till 12th Night on Monday, absolutely no one believed that we will be able to cover that many locations. But we were confident in making this a reality. I will write one separate blog for each town we visited, this is so that I don’t cramp everything under one post.

Roadtrip: Perak & Pahang

Yesterday The team gathered and we had 1000pcs of photographs per camera. We brought 2 camera’s for that trip. Most of the photos are too blurry and cannot be used. Will be sorting them out tonight and hopefully by tomorrow the posts will be ready.

So what did we do within that 3 days, below is the summary.

Day 1
10am : bah kut teh at Taman Sentosa, Klang
12pm : Was at Sekinchan (Padi Field, Coconut Hut and Seafood Lunch)
6pm : Arrived at Kellie’s Castle, Batu Gajah
7pm : Sam Poh Tong Buddist Temple, Limestone Cave both located in Ipoh
8pm : Dinner at the town of Ipoh
9.30pm : Night Safari, Taiping
1.30am : Arrive at Sitiawan to sleep

Day 2
8am : Wake up time
10am : All ready and out for Breakfast
12pm : Arrive at Segari (Turtle Santuary)
2pm : Arrive at Lumut
3pm : Took Ferry to Pangkor Island
3.30pm : Arrive at Pangkor Island and took the 2 hour Tour
6pm : Journey back to Lumut
6.30pm : Arrive Lumut
8pm: Teluk Intan (Leaning Tower)
11.30pm: Arrive at Genting Highlands

Day 3
7.30am : Woke up, others still in Lala land
8.30am : Awana Hotel Tour
9.30am : Breakfast at Awana Hotel
10.30am : Photography session at Awana Hotel
12pm : Cable Car to peak of Genting Highlands
1pm : Lunch at Genting Highlands
2pm : Photography session
4pm : Headed towards Bentong, Bukit Tinggi
5pm : Arrived at Bukit Tinggi (Japanese Garden, French Village & Horse Tour)
8pm : On the way back home

To me this was one of the best trips I even had. The team for the Roadtrip were Thristhan from Malaysia, Robin from UK, HweeLi from Malaysia and Siew Geok From Malaysia. The 1World team will continue planning other trips in the near future, bringing it to you from our Official Broadcaster, Blue.fm, 69.0 fm.