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What is more amazing than watching sunset, having a nice meal and a beautiful scenary of Kuala Lumpur! Check out this place in Ampang/Hulu Langat, Look Out Point.

Background of Petronas Twin Tower, p/s: that is not the moon! it's the sun...

The night view is also beautiful… who said we must have sharp images??

The rest of the images are posted to my Flickr Site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/amy_rantz

How to go to Look Out Point, Ampang/Hulu Langat:
a) Take the Jalan Ampang, drive towards Ampang Point Shopping Centre

b) Once you’ve passed Ampang Point, drive straight on until you see Ampang Waterfront on your left. There are a lot of shops, restaurants… continue driving until you reach a traffic light where there’s a sign showing ” Hutan Lipur Ampang” or “Taman Rimba Ampang”. You will not miss this sign post because it’s quite big. When you see this sign post, you must be at the traffic light. (You may also see a moderate sign post of Carrefour)

c) At the traffic light, turn right. You’ll see Carrefour supermarket on your right, continue driving and start counting the traffic lights, you should pass 5 traffic lights and at the 5th traffic lights, turn to your left

d) Once you turn in, you’ll see a sign “Menara Tinjau” – the sign post is located on your left. At this point, you’ll realise that you are actually driving up hill and there are no street lights, therefore please be careful!

e) Continue driving for another 3km, it’s quite hilly but not very steep. And you’ll see a big sign saying “Pusat Pelancongan dan Menara Tinjau, Look Out Point” on your right. Turn in to the carpark. (RM2, otherwise you can drive up to the restaurants area and ask for jockey parking , pay additional RM3)

Life is dull without camera!

Left top: I took this picture while sitting inside a taxi, on my way to Penang airport,
Right top: Chinese Restaurant
Centre bottom: The workers at car wash centre, around PJ Sect 5 uses this net to prevent themselves from sun burn

It has been a whole long week…at home, studying! But today afternoon, it rained quite heavily so, I took an opportunity to skip the study for an hour and took some pictures using my manual Pentax-M f1.4 50mm lens! I love the results and I love the rain! Btw, this is not photoshopped!

I hope that the images below will inspire and remind you to find beauty in your everyday life.

ugly pipe

ugly aircond

I went back to Kota Kinabalu for a short break and to attend a friend cousin’s wedding. Gosh!! Although it’s only for few days, I managed to explore interesting places with friends. One of them is Lok Kawi Wildlife Park which just opened in 2007. This place is located at the old Penampang-Papar road, about 15km from the city of Kota Kinabalu. This wildlife park is set in a 280 acre forest reserve and run by the Sabah Wildlife Department. I really like this park because it has an enormous amount of space and is able to focus on providing animals with the most natural conditions as possible and at the same time allowing visitors like me (a city girl) with an close encounter. You should see me that day, my behaviour is about the same as our dear cousin “the orang-utan”

I saw a lot of animals such as Orang-utans, Proboscis Monkeys, Pygmy Elephants (with one baby Elephant), Pygmy Rhino, Tigers, Clouded Leopard, Gibbons, Sun Bears, Tortoise, Mouse Deer, Ostrich, Civets, all sort of birds, Cattle and Zebras. There are also ‘reptiles’ too! Apart from the animals, I also notice that they provide a children’s zoo, a huge botanical garden, and a train ride!!

There’s another thing that I notice which are the caretakers. Most of them are not local. So, I did some research and found out that Lok Kawi has a ‘Care for Animals Project’ whereby a volunteers scheme was created for travellers to allow them to learn about animal care across variety of species. This is an extremely good programme for students who are thinking of having a gap year or wanted to do volunteering work especially for British students.

Anyway, enough of the introduction. Let’s check out few of the photos out of hundreds that we took!

Want to watch the most amazing sunset in Kota Kinabalu? Head down to Shangri-La Tanjung Aru Resort & Spa, where there’s a bar called “Sunset Bar” – make sure that you’re there before 6pm. The view of the sun setting in is extremely beautiful, perhaps its the location of the bar and the angle! The view is free but the drinks are quite expensive. A glass of juice cost around RM11++, and of course the alcohol cost even more. It’s an open air bar, but they don’t provide any umbrellas, so… pick the right day and hopefully it won’t rain!

Below is the picture taken for the last sunset of 2007 – beautiful isn’t it?

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