Category: Going Places

Decided to check out Union Yes Retreat & Training Centre. This is latest resort(not really new but it had finally opened for public somewhere last year, previously it’s only for the members of SBEU) in Lundu which got many people talking about. The junction to go into the resort, the road was bad! Potholes everywhere -.-” At first we thought we had gone into the wrong place. Kept driving and finally saw the building.

Left: The signboard that greeted us outside the lobby.

Right: The check-in counter.

When I walked in, I was quite surprised and couldn’t believe my eyes that this is in Sarawak. I never see blue sea here! Blue sea and blue sky is not common here. This definitely blew me away for a moment. Not the blue swimming pool. Look beyond the swimming pool.

Left: The other side of the swimming pool.

Right: The main building of the resort. I just realized I forgot to include the picture of Rafflesia Cafe.

Left: The chalets.

Right: The area in front of the chalets. You can play football here.

The overall view of the building.

Left: Blue sea, blue sky, blue mountain. Nice!

Right: Fancy beach volley ball? You can get the facility here.

Another photo taken from another direction.

Left: Do you notice SBEU( Sarawak Bank Employees’ Union) on ground? This resort is actually managed by Sarawak Bank Employees’ Union, members will get special rate staying in this resort. It’s also open to the public to make reservation.

Right: Obstacle course.

The view from Sunrise Terrace.

Left: Lastly, visited the toilet before we made our way to Sematan.

Right: The shower rooms.

Too bad… No photos of the rooms available. Will see if I have the chance to go there for a holiday one of these days as my dad did mention something about going there for 2 day 1 night trip in near future. We’ll see.

You can check the rates in their website.

Going to share you the first part of my road trip last weekend. Going to show you the views that I saw when we were on the way to Lundu from Kuching.

Mountain view from somewhere in Batu Kawa.

This is one of the views fron one of the highest peaks of the road to Lundu. Very nice view right? Look at the faraway mountain.

Left: Going uphill…

Right: Finally reached the bridge. The view from the bridge. Last time, without this bridge, we had to use ferry to cross the river and usually there would be massive queue during public holidays that would take at least an hour or so to reach your turn. Sometimes we had to park our car at one of the villagers’ houses, paid them some money, then we would walk to board the ferry and then my uncle would wait for us with his van at the other end to save those waiting time. Gone are those days.

Finally we reached Bukit Saban Resort Camp at around 10.30am. Before that we made a stop at Petronas for another toilet break and asked people which direction to go to the national service camp. It was a really looong way to the camp, we kept asking ourselves how far more to go *LOL*

The canteen and activity area of the camp. Visitors were only allowed to be at this area. There were so many parents, family members, and relatives that day. Visitors could even eat the food prepared that day at the canteen but of course most won’t go for it *LOL* Could see many “Pizza Hut” and “KFC” there hahaha… We had KFC.

Left: The place where the trainees were staying.

Right: Water activities equipments.

We left at around 2.30pm and decided to pay a visit to Sri Aman. Love the mountain views!

Left: Sri Aman was only 9KM from the junction to Betong. However, the 9KM really took ages because of the road. It’s tarred, just that due to the geographical condition, it slowed us a lot.

Right: The stadium at Sri Aman.

Finally we were greeted by some sort of modernity after passing by miles and miles of jungle, mountain, farms and so on.

The doves that symbolized the town, too bad I didn’t get to take a really good photo of it as we didn’t make any stop. We just drove and drove. Aman means peace in Malay.

I assume this is the place where you can see the tidal bore of the Batang Lupar River. I’m not sure when the phenomenon will take place, it will happen few times a year if not mistaken.

After Sri Aman, we headed down to the direction of Kuching. See the mountain? Nice!

On the way down, I asked my dad to stop by Mount Hosana as I wanted to take photo of the famous Mount Hosana Jesus Prayer Chapel. Drove too fast and not so sure on the exact location, we overshot the junction, lucky there’s no car behind so my dad quickly made a fast reversing into the junction.

There you go… The church. Seriously, I don’t think I can climb up there hahaha… There’s no hand reel and going down isn’t very easy also ;p

Took some photos of the church and we went straight down to Kuching.

Showing you the mountain view again! Just can’t help it. It’s really a magnificent view.

That’s the end of our first road trip to Betong.

Part 3 coming up, it will be the second road trip to Betong that happened last Saturday.