A’Famosa trip

The trip to Melaka's A’Famosa resort is really good! Let me do a quick run down on the trip.

We left home about 7.30am to try to beat the morning traffic. Had breakfast at a coffee shop in Puchong and then drove to Melaka. We reached the resort about 10.30am. Since my auntie’s family from Singapore have not reached, we tried to check in. But sadly could not check in until 4pm (yeahh check in time is at 4pm!). However, we registered and took our coupons. By that time, my aunty reached and all 3 families headed to Safari.

Since no outside food and drinks were allowed in park, we had a little picnic at the empty car park before we enter. LOL! My mom and aunty made and brought more that enough food to feed all of us for 2 days! We entered the Safari after a really heavy brunch.



There's a Japanese carp pond near the entrance. There's a fish food despising machine at the side for visitors to buy fish food to feed the carps but I saw a few people feeding orange skin!



I was with a lot of 'cute chicks' in the chicken house! Hehehe ;p Visitors were allowed into the cage and pick up chicks. We had to make sure we didn't kill\step on any and we have to really handle them with care. They are so cute!!!! They went *chip chip chip* hehehe so cute!

We also took the 'bus' ride to round the enclosed area with the Safari animals. Since all the animals were not caged, our bus was. I felt like I was a wanted criminal being transported to jail. LOL!





The lions and tigers were not caged too! HOHOHO very interesting!



This one I had to take. I like this picture a lot.



There were elephant, camel and pony rides. We had to pay of course. But nice experience for RM4. Visitors could also buy sugar cane for RM2 to feed the elephants.

There were multiple shows we saw too. The Cowboy show was really good! The acting, the comedy, the costumes and even the guns! I think they used real guns with blank ammos. Explosions were real. And stunts were good too!

There are other shows like the bird show, multiple animal show, elephant show.. and a few more that I didn't get to see.



My sis with the furry animal. I don't know what's its called but it clings like a baby.



Very handsome!!! It's heavy.



Albino python! This one was from the multi animal show. It's a much smaller python compared to the one I held in Singapore. I asked my mom if I could have one in the house ..... hahaha I can't as expected.

My parents left the Safari at 4pm to get the keys and returned to join the rest of us. After Safari, we unloaded our belongings at the bungalow we rented and drove to Tampin for dinner. Tampin is a small town only about 10 minutes drive away from A’Famosa. The food was nice and cheap.

It was straight to Cowbow Town after dinner. (No time to shower! I was like sticky all over and stinky! LOL!) The shows and performance were good. And fireworks too!





My sis, one of my cousins and I went for a 15 minutes 4D movie after that as the rest of my family went back to the bungalow. The 4D movie was really worth the money paid. Damn good! I freaked out at a few parts. Rats Rats Rats!!! OMG!

I wanted to stay to enjoy the rest of the place. There were a few areas we all didn't get to visit. But we had to return to the bungalow. We all slept really comfortably. There were 4 rooms, each with 2 queen sized beds. 2 bathrooms. A fridge, water boiler, clothes iron and also a hair drier was also provided.

I planned to visit the archery, paintball and micro light flying club but I woke up way too late for that. The kids were enjoying themselves in the pool a little before we had to pack up for check out.





My 6 year old cousin doing some synchronized swimming thing. Very impressive.

The whole trip was really nice, but there was one thing I didn't like. The check in (4pm) and check out (12 noon) time! Anyway, here's some info is anyone is (going to plan) planning a trip there.

- A Famosa's homepage
- Map of the whole area
- Recommended stay, 3 days 2 nights
- If you are staying at the bungalow, a BBQ would be really nice. There's a big supermarket in Tampin where you can get all your BBQ stuff from so you don't have to bother about transporting them from your home.
- They kind of have a suggested itinerary for you to follow for each park. Follow it and you got the whole visit covered! Very convenient and will save you the headache.
- Water is expensive. Try to bring your own. RM2.50 for any drinks in the Animal World, and RM3.50 in the cowboy town!
- Having a car would be nice because the parks and condos\villas are located very far from each other. There are free busses to get to and from these places but kind of 'ma farn' to rely on them.
- Enjoy durians along the roadsides on the way back home! ...but the durians I ate today wasn't that nice.. and a bit pricey too.