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Sungai Lembing 13th-14th Sept 2008 - Part 1
To me, Sungai Lembing is one unique place which has very great potential for tourism, and is a place which backpackers will enjoy very much. What is lacking is publicity.
Sg. Lembing is a small town. One of the important 'landmark' here is the 'petrol station'. And don't be fooled - there's no petrol station here but just a small pump!
The Hakka Association. Sg. Lembing is a flood prone area. During one of the worst flood few years ago, the whole of it's ground floor was in water!! Can u imagine that??!
One of the many attractions here is Bukit Lembing.
The last time I've been here about a year ago, we climbed this hill early morning to admire the sunrise from the top of it.
Bukit Lembing is not a very high mountain but u can see very beautiful and picturesque sea of clouds around it and a very majestic sunrise here.
This time we planned to visit the Rainbow Waterfall the next morning so we climbed this hill in the evening. However it was a very cloudy day and no sunset fo us.
The start of our climb.
View of Sg. Lembing from the hill.
William managed to reach the top within 30 minutes the last time we came, but this time it was great suffering for him cos he's gained so much weight since then!!
Vivian's 'kepo' look. :D
Ah, finally we're at the top.
Pregnant soon after marriage - but it's William, not Sheau Shin!
Group photo on Bukit Lembing.
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Sungai Lembing 13th-14th Sept 2008 - Part 2
We were terribly hungry when we came down from Bukit Lembing, and we headed straight for food!
This is the special "Tomato Noodles" of Sg. Lembing. Actually it's just some innovation from the usual fried noodles with gravy but with added tomato flavour only. Not bad though.
Then we headed for the famous roast pork!
The special thing about the pork here is that it's roasted using wood, and this is the place where the roast pork is done.
The 'oven'.
Golden roast pork.
The boss cut a portion of pork from the whole roasted pig.
Good business.
Roast pork.
Char siew.
It's so yummy that this guy couldn't wait to swallow the piece inside his mouth before stuffing in another. Hehehe!
Oooo.... delicious!
It was mooncake festival. After a splendid meal, we went back to our guesthouse, lit some lantern, made some Chinese tea, enjoyed some mooncake and had a long long chat...
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Sungai Lembing 13th-14th Sept 2008 - Part 3
Actually we planned to visit the amazaing Rainbow Waterfall the following morning. However, we were quite unlucky that it started raining cats and dogs for more than 5 hours that night. Worried that the water level at the waterfall may be too high, we decided to cancel the visit. That gives us an excuse to visit Sg Lembing again in the future! :) (hehe, seow wei, does this disappoint u?)
So we started our second day with breakfast - the famous "yong taufu" at the food court.
Market.
Then we visited the museum.
Sungai Lembing town developed in the 1880's when the British set up the tin mining industry. From 1891, the Pahang Consolidated Company Limited, (PCCL), which was under British control, had a 77-year lease to mine the area. PCCL managed the mine from 1906 until its liquidation in 1986 when world tin prices collapsed. It was actually the largest, longest and deepest underground tin mine in the world, with a total tunnel length of 322 km, and depth of between 610 m and 700 m.
An illustration of the underground tin mine on the wall of a SJK(C) Sg. Lembing.
This guy has a delusion that his 'gun' is as big as this. :D
Mining tools.
Tin.
Sand which contains tin.
Model of miners at work.
And this was how our "squatters" ancestors worked. 前人种树，后人乘凉。
后人。
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Sungai Lembing 13th-14th Sept 2008 - Part 4
As I've mentioned in my previous post on Sg Lembing, it had the largest, longest and deepest underground tin mine in the world. Nothing beats seeing the mine itself - seeing pictures in the museum just couldn't satisfy us. So we went deeper into the actual site of the abandoned mine.
Some "Tapak Injin Besar PCCL (which stand for Pahang Consolidated Company Limited)" sign.
There were no "injin", only ruins. This place looked very much like the abandoned town in Miyazaki's Spirited Away... imagining spirits crowding this place for party when dark falls.... whoooosh!
And this one, Laputa. :)
The hanging bridge across Sungai Lembing.
The entrance of one of the abandoned tunnels of the underground mine. Caution: these structures have been abandoned for years and they are actually unsafe to enter.
We only went in a few feet into one of them, and it was holy dark in there. Simply snap a few pictures aided by the faint light of the torchlights that we brought.
A shot from inside out.
I dunno why but this place made me think of the Hellfire Pass in Kanchanaburi, Thailand which we visited 2 years ago...
Sah and I at the Hellfire Pass.
Sah and I at the abandoned mine, Sungai Lembing.
(The end for Sg Lembing episodes. Sorry for delayed posting...)
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