golfing @ desaru


drove up to desaru on 5 dec with three of my golf kakis and stayed at pulai desaru resort. paid rm$125 for a garden view room. worth the money as it was a big room on the fifth level and it came with complimentary breakfast for two persons.

had lunch at jade garden restaurant at sungai rengit. seemed to be the most popular eating place in that coastal township. of course, we had lobsters. we also had buttered prawns and chicken. the last time i was at sungai rengit, i ate at the other restaurant, the one across the road from jade garden.

on the road to sungai rengit, we came across a big group of about thirty cyclists. they appear to be singaporeans. they also ended up at the same restaurant for their lunch. reminded me of the time when we cycled from the pier at tanjong pengileh to sungai rengit. then, there were only four of us.

for our dinner, we drove to telok sangat, which is about 28km from desaru. telok sangat is a quaint and quiet village beside the johor river. i have been to telok sengat several times in the past and i have always liked the place. it has the 'kampong feel of the days gone by'. life goes on at a leisurely pace.

the next day, on our way home, we stopped at the desaru fruit farm to pick up some fruit. a tour of the farm would cost about rm$15. we bought a bunch of bananas for rm$1.30.