Half Day Family Trip to Tg, Sepat

Malaysia is really blessed, sometimes we need to remember that. We have such wonderful places just a short way from where we stay that we seldom take time to explore.

Last weekend, we decided to visit Tg. Sepat. The drive is just slightly over an hour from Kajang. After some google map checks, we decided to go via Lekas. Exited at Nilai and drove towards Sepang. After Sepang, the 1st stop for us was Bagan Lalang. We started off almost 8am and reached Bagan Lalang at about 9am. The beach there is pretty nice, although it wasn't very clean. The tide was high so there was some of rubbish washed up to the shore. This is a big problem in Malaysia, as I see, there are full of litter bugs! Rubbish is conveniently discarded from cars, while walking in the park, it's disgusting. Worse still, the foreign workers who come to Malaysia to earn a living are also contributing to the litter problem. We have witnessed them throwing rubbish as they walked on the roads. It's really sad, sometimes I wish we have good enforcement like Singapore, Then all these litter bugs will be fined, hard.

Por Por helping to dig for treasures in the sand.

Oops, I digressed. Now back to the trip. We had breakfast at a makcik's stall of curry puffs and nasi lemak. The food was okay but the drinks of teh tariks, kopi ais and milo ais were hmmmm, let's say, I make them better at home. Anyways, we then proceeded to the beach and the kids played for some 15 minutes of so. Only one person did not enjoy the stop, my daughter! She wouldn't come down and walk because she didn't like the sand in her slippers or feet. So we had to carry her all the time...

Then it was time to leave for our destination which is Tg. Sepat. The road signs on the way were not helpful so we took some wrong turns and asked some locals. On the way, we saw many dragon fruit farms but I think none were opened to visitors yet. Too early, I guess. Finally, after another 20 minutes, we reached Tg. Sepat. It is a very small 'new village' next to the coast. I think there are about 10 narrow roads altogether there, so narrow that it's hard to allow 2 cars to pass together at a time.

We researched that one of the main attractions is Lover's Bridge (情人桥) so that was where we went 1st. It is a long jetty that is about 5 feet wide that extends quite a long way to the sea. The tide was high and it was really scary to walk on the bridge. I was really scared especially for the kids. There was no hand rails and any naughty shove could land one of the kids in the sea! I was extremely worried and nervous for everyone, so we walked carefully on the bridge, sometimes having to stand aside for men on motorbikes to pass! After the concrete bridge, it continued with wooden planks, which made me even more nervous. So we quickly took some pictures and headed back to shore. The pictures looked great.

Lover's Bridge (情人桥) which scares the hell out of me.

It is pretty long, half concrete half wood.

A view of the bridge from a restaurant which hasn't started business for the day yet.

On shore, we bought some food stuff from the shop like fish keropok and some sauces. A lady sold cooked fishballs to us. We sat at the benches and started to have our newly bought snacks.There were some restaurants there but I think business has not started yet. Plus, we we still full from the breakfast, so we decided to explore some shops in the town. Found the pau shop which we also know is famous, wanted to eat some but the ladies at the shop said they were not ready yet! And that was about 11am! She told us to come back about 12.30. So we left without any paus, wanted to visit the coffee powder shop but the roads towards it was under some repair so couldn't get there.

Next, we wanted to visit the mushroom farm. We managed to do another stop which was just some minutes from Tg. Sepat town. It looked like a jetty for yacht training, we spent about 15 minutes there. We drove toward Morib hoping to find the mushroom farm but we couldn't find it. Since it's still early and we really wanted to come back for the famous paus later, we drove on to Morib which wasn't that far away from Tg. Sepat.

Having a good, free and easy time at Morib Beach!

My in laws were reminiscing about old times when they brought their kids to Morib to play on the beach. Everyone was pleasantly surprised by the facilities newly build at the Morib beach. There was a park, with tiles pavements and jetty for visitors to enjoy the view of the sea. There were also toys and kites for sale. Toilets were new and clean at 30 sen per visit though :(. We enjoyed the sea breeze and let the kids run around the park. I was still worried when they got too near the railings. The open sea down there, just one slip away! I think I may have a sea phobia! I better learn to swim like a pro and make sure the kids can do the same. That may solve my phobia.

It was over 1pm when we left Morib and headed back to Tg. Sepat for the paus. We managed to get some paus, not all flavours were available because they were sold out! So we settled for Mui Choi with Pork paus and some sweet paus. Mother in Law commented that the skin of the paus were softer making it taste better and we all agreed. Also stop at the shop a few doors away to get some coffee powder. It's was already around 2pm, so we headed home. We did not have any bak kut teh or sea food lunch, I was a little disappointed. But we can always come back again to visit. Next time we stay longer (maybe overnight) and try more of the food that I read a lot from blogs.

Pau Prices

Local coffee; taste is ok only.