Sengkek Trip to Indonesia?

I was asked earlier on by my coursemate to organise a sengkek plan to Indonesia. Indonesia is the best place for a sengkek travel. How about a trip to Bandung let's say around RM500?maybe less?

This is just an estimation but if there are people committed with this project, I don't have any problem committing myself. What we need now is a date for our flight and accomodation. I will give a rough plan as soon as possible.Hope there will be Airasia promo during that time.hehe..


Here I attach some photos of Indonesia courtesy of myself and my friend Aida.

Not So Sengkek Trip to Singapore

It was a travel to Singapore. I'm joining my Studiomate for their research project at Sungai Buloh Wetland Reserve and Singapore Botanical Garden. Im a bit disappointed though. I wanted this trip to a part of my travel sengkek concept but due to time contraint, I was not able to properly planned a the whole trip.

But it is still quite a cheap trip considering the fact that the whole trip cover the whole of Singapore in only 3days 2night. In this post, I will discuss why the plan didn't fall under the category of 'Travel Sengkek' .

First factor

Accomodation. For me the RM115 per person for 2 night cost a bomb! I'm not criticising the person who book the hotel. The hotel is really cheap considering the price of rm115 and the level of comfort are great. But to embrace the concept of 'Travel Sengkek', I need to cut more budget from accomodation. My earlier plan was to find a cheap hotel or hostel which cost around just RM50 per night. I even found a hotel with only RM35-40. Imagine that? With that in mind, we would have saved over half the original cost for accomodation.

Second factor

Transport. Another factor which always add up to the overall budget of a trip. But in this trip, our plan are great. Due to the fact that we have our own transport and the places we planned to visit provide cheap parking, we decided to drove our car to Singapore.

This the gateway to Singapore which is the new Woodland Complex in Singapore. Its a nice and modern building challenged only by its neighbour new building ( Semangat Malaysia Boleh!! Hehe ).

But I would suggest not to go to Singapore via the Second Link. The price are outrageously high compared to Causeway Link. Almost triple the price and also dont forget that the Second Link are located way far from any major attraction.

With this I attached some advice if you want to bring your own transport to Singapore :
1. Bring alot of extra money.
2. You will need to register your car 1st if this is your 1st time bringing your car to Singapore. They will also asked you to register for a card which function similarly as a Touch n Go card.
3. Please topup this card accordingly. You will use this card to enter Singapore (Toll) and also their parking fees. Don't be so cheap to top this card or you will be in a lot of trouble. Remember, Singapore is a 'fine' city. We ourselves were fined 2times because of this card
4. Bringing your own car to Singapore is a luxury but also troublesome. Please adhere all their rules.
5. Bring a GPS. It helps alot
6. Have a full tank. Fuel there are expensive compared to Malaysia.

Oh! I forgotten to tell you that it cost me rm70 for my return trip to Johor.

Third Factor

Food. We saved alot here. Makesure you eat in Johor and bring only a few bread for rations. But in our case, our supply arent enough. So our stomach ache miserably. Hehe.

Conclusion

In short, only the accomodation that spoiled the plan of becoming a 'Travel Sengkek' travel plan. But we had a lot of great time together. I compiled with this post a few pictures courtesy of Muhidzan. Enjoy..







Our first visit. Sungai Buloh Wetland Reserve. A great example of a very highly maintained park by Singapore Authority.

Me and my studiomate. I'm not the only male though. The photographer is Muhidzan. Don't worry. We're both normal male.hehe.


Singapore Zoo

Singapore Zoo is a great place to visit. See that the animals are not caged but rather roamed free inside their respective habitat.



























A video of the animals inside the Zoo.



Singapore Botanical Garden

Post Hold Up

I regret to say that i'm in a period of transition of adjusting to my new office. Since I got so many things to do, I was not able to concentrate to post my previous and also future Travel Sengkek Plan..

I am currently struggling to finish my 3months program at ILPBT Morib. So no traveling for the time being except for the one planned by ILPBT.But I do have 1 crazy plan of doing a Travel Sengkek plan to Bangkok.I will discuss this matter further afterword.

I'm sorry to dissappoint everyone but I will try my best to update this blog.Thank you.

Traveling in Sengkek Style

Its been month since i've plan to open a blog based on so many of my trips which are using the concept of traveling in Sengkek. I hope that by opening this blog, i can help people understand the concept of minimizing their cost of traveling and to show that anyone can travel. I hope that people reading this blog will support my idea and help me to create a community of travel sengkek traveler. Cheers!!