Camping Ride | Gigi Palsu | Ikan Tempoyak

it has been a busy month for me in 2013. apart from my normal daily work in office, my weekend were full with my personal activities.... mainly riding my bikes. since riding is my passions hence i can't complaint much about it except to share more of my riding stories with you guys....hehehe

Camping Ride....

the idea of going for ride and camping has been in my thought for more than a years (click here). however due to other riding plan plus my new hobby which was scuba diving last year, this activity has been postponed for many times till January this year. Furthermore since HOG Malaysia yet to come out with their riding calendar, i took the opportunity to invite some friends to join the Camping Ride.

event @ facebook

One month prior to the exact date for this event, i started posting about the activities in the HOG Malaysia Facebook  Just to get some attention from some friends and early response. To my surprise the response was superb with more than 25 people responded the invitation and confirm of joining the ride. However, sadly on the exact day only 14 friends turn up with half did the last minute cancel to join the ride. With all the food preps and others preparation has been prepared i can't cancel the ride except do my best with my 14 riding friends that have committed to participate. I hope that the last minute cancellation will not becoming the new trend in Malaysia Harley communities...

route

Well, better small than never, 14 of us gathers at HDKL on that Saturday morning before we push off to Jeram Besu our campsite. After a short breakfast at the dealers and the ride briefing, we headed to Karak highway via Duke. The whole journey to our campsite was really great. With great weather and blue sky, we cruising through the mix of highway and trunk road. We did few stops for ciggerates and toilets plus one stop for refueling at Raub. Traffic was not heavy that morning hence we spent relaxing cruising ride besides enjoying the scenery of the local village.

fuel stop at Raub

After 2 hours of riding covering about 170km from KL, we finally arrived at our campsite at Jeram Besu, Pahang. Most friends who came were surprised to see that the campsite was equipped with all basic facilities including dining hall, toilets and lights. Some did told me that they thought it was a really an outback camping site before arriving the place.

We were served with the local kampung food for lunch. As usual, Ikan Patin Tempoyak was the main attraction since it was the most popular food at Pahang. While some were having lunch, the rest were busy checkin to their tent. Me & Tengku Imran decided to sleep in the open tent while the rest were in the dome tent. 

one bungalow each.....

Campsite.......

Upon checkin and lunch and zohor prayer, all were geared up with their white water activities for that afternoon. Me & Ken decided not to join the white water rafting but spending most of our afternoon riding back to Raub for a drinks.

Tengku Imran & my tent

After 3 hours of white water rafting, i met them at the end point before we headed back to our campsite. soon after every one had taken their bath we spent our evening chit chatting while waiting for the dinner. Dinner was superb and that night we were serve with Ikan Patin bakar asam tempoyak. look like they never get bored with the local food and eat as much as  they could.

group photo..... as always

gear up...!!

u da man..... hahaha

teambuilding....

group photo before wet...!! 

We spent the nite resting and sharing all good stories till late nite.

Mandi sungai

makan time..!!

That morning, we woke up early as it was a cold morning. Had a great nasi lemak breakfast and hot coffee before we all ready to gear up, pack our things and ride back to KL.

Our Campsite at night

our bikes go camping too...!!

I really had a great time with those friends who came and joint the ride. although we spent 2 days and 1 night but there were so much things we shared and many untold stories we shared during the event.

Group photo before heading back KL

Till next round..... i would like to take this opportunity to thanks all friends that joined me for the camping ride. you guys are awesome and look forward for our next trip soon....