t1f@'s l1f3: 2nd 1 day trip to Kampar, Perak

I, Daniel and Kim Mun started the journey to Kampar this morning around 11am plus after we finish our Brunch at Pappa Rich, Bandar Sri Damansara. Along the highway to Kampar, we look at the sky and lots of the design on the cloud. We saw 1 cloud with the shape of rat, chicken drumstick and many more which we do not know how to describe the shape. Kim Mun get a shock how come it takes a long time only reach Kampar and we tell him that actually Selangor is quite big also so until now, we are still within Selangor border.

At last, we reach Slim River, where we will be going out of the Selangor border. After we have already passed the Slim River sign board, soon we will found the Kampar sign board by showing University Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR) location. After that we already pass by the Kampar toll where we will still need to head UTAR as the location which is much further in. We drove the car about few kilometres finally we reach Westlake, where that is the location for UTAR. We called the landlord and he informs that he will be coming out to take us go in to his house by showing us the direction.

After we had already taken a look on his house and make the decision, we continue our journey by going to few places for photo shooting. In our plan, we got 2 places where we wanted to go that is Kellie’s Castle and Batu Berangkai (Waterfall area). Along the journey on the highway, we saw the sign board stated Gua Tempurung, so, we decided to go and have a look. We reach Gua Tempurung and unfortunately, if we wanted to go into the Gua Tempurung, we will have to pay money for the ticket and some more the weather is so hot which there isn’t any rain at all for the whole afternoon. We change our mind to proceed to the Kellie’s castle. After a while looking for the Kellie’s Castle, finally we reach there but the weather is still so hot.

We came down from the car and proceed to the ticket counter as we still need to pay money for the entrance ticket. We pay for the entrance ticket and go in to the Kellie’s Castle. For this castle, one of my friend said that do not make so much noise as the castle can say s very creepy. Daniel and Kim Mun just walk a while, both of them already sweating nonstop so which means that the weather is really very hot. This Kellie’s Castle is an uncompleted castle during the year of 1907. While we are walking at the surrounding of the castle, there is some notice by telling you on which room is belong to which room. We did take quite a number of the photos while visiting each room. In the castle, there got one of the tunnels which are very dark and we don’t dare to go in. While we are climbing up the stairs to the highest floor, we found some bats on the ceiling. After that, we go up to the highest floor which is called “parapad” where if Mr. William Kellie Smith manage to build up the whole castle and if he is still alive, he will be able to stand at the “parapad” there to look at the his own castle and the estates.

After finish visiting the castle, we proceed to the waterfall which is called “Lata kinjang Waterfall” where we saw the sign board stated there. We reach the waterfall as it is about 8km from the entrance of Chenderiang. We walk up to the middle of the waterfall to take a picture of the water. While Daniel and Kim Mun is busy taking photos, I take off my shoe and walk to the water there. The feeling when we touching the waterfall water time are very cooling but the stones there are very slippery. Although, I already walk very carefully in the water, I also will fall down due to the stones are very slippery and just only my pants get wet. After we had already finish taking photos, we decided to go back KL as the weather already inform us that it is going to start to heavy rain.

This is what we called 1 day trip and it gives us the feeling which is very happy as we manage to take a lot of photos. So, we are heading back to KL to have out dinner as all of us tomorrow will have to go for work.

Kellie Castle