Deliciously Me

Continuous from the previous post on Taiping…

Behold, this post contains non-halal! Lol!

Taiping trip is being close to nature – hence, a visit at this Indian temple,  Om Sakthi Sri Jada Muneesvarar Alayam.

Well the main reason why we visit this temple is to see and touch wild boars!

Touching a wild boar might be disgusting to you, but believe me there’s a VERY BIG REASON why people are touching and feeding them.

Plus, have you seen wild boars eating nasi lemak? @.@

There the wild boars are known as ‘lucky boars’. It’s said that by touching the boars with hand, one might strike lottery! That’s why people as far as Singapore come all the way to this temple to touch it.

While the boars are busy munching on their nasi lemak, I took the opportunity to touch one of the wild boar. Their skin is seriously HARD! I think normal pig’s skin also nicer. Haha!

Here’s the famous 3-legged wild boar. The caretaker told us that this boar and another two ‘friends’ of his are the luckier boars.

Seeing the 3 legged wild boar fulled of mud, I was reluctant to touch initially. But out of curiosity, I did. I was dying to know what’s the difference between touching a mud-less wild boar and a muddy wild boar.

Difference are :

1. The fur is THICKER.

2. The wet feeling is there.

As the sky grew darker, the number of wild boars increased. Probably the dark sky means ‘dinner time’ to them. Lol.

We left not long after that since the tummy was growling. Took dinner at one of the food court in Taiping and off we went to the Taiping Night Safari. Entrance fee is RM16 for adult and RM10 for children under 12.

The moment we walked in there was a guy asking if we wanna take the tram or walk on our own. Since it was ages since we were to the Taiping Night Safari, we decided to take the tram first to know generally what animals they have there and then walk on our own.

Little that we know that we would end up sitting on the tram for 3 times! -.-”

The Taiping Night Safari is smaller if you wanna compare to the one in Singapore. Hey, smaller doesn’t mean it’s bad. Going to night safari and see all the nocturnal coming out at night is really amazing. But…

There’s a BIG BUT here.

I wished the night safari is more lighted especially on the pathway. I understand that night safari should be have as minimal light as possible but at least put led/low light lamps on the pathway to guide people on walking. Some trails are so dark that if a snake or tiger were to lurk there, we might end up being their supper even though some of the ‘no-light-trail’ is barely 100m long. Who knows right?

After getting down from the tram (for the first time), my parents decided to forgo the plan of walking around the night safari. Plus we weren’t given map on the area – we might end up being lost in the safari! Lol!

Aih, my hope of snapping the ‘wild’ animals dashed totally.

We saw many people walked straight to the exit after getting down from the tram. I was thinking – paying RM16 for a 15-20 minutes ride around the safari isn’t worth it at all. Plus it’s hard to scan and see the animals in dark. So I suggested, “why not another round of tram ride?”

Everyone agreed and we queued for 2nd round. The queue wasn’t that long as compared to the first one where we had to wait for good ol’ 30 minutes for the ride. -.-”

10 minutes later, we gotten ourselves on tram for 2nd time and this time we looked at the animals that we couldn’t spot in the first ride. The 2nd tram driver is good as he stopped longer to let us find the animal that he mentioned. Unlike the first driver where he did ‘touch-n-go‘ at each section. Tsk tsk.

We enjoyed our 2nd ride and when we got off the exit point again, we went to queue for the 3rd time – just for the sake of making our ticket worthy. Haha!

So for the 3rd time, we just enjoying the breeze and serenity of the animal kingdom. It was getting late and the sound of crickets getting louder.

And at this round, I spotted a malnourished camel. It is so skinny that I could the ribs on its body. Instead of the normal standing posture that camel has, this camel’s 4 legs caved in, like alphabet V. And it was crying. Or ‘talking’ in its language – that I don’t know. Haha.

We started to feel tired and weary after the 3rd round. So, we headed home. It was definitely interesting as we get to see places rather than stuck at home. Haha!

- Did I mention that I roared at the sleeping lion, just to wake the lion up? And the lion ignored me. T.T -