Kijal to Dungun, December 19

We left Awana at 11am to have a slow drive to Dungun.  I wanted to visit a Turtle Sanctuary at Pantai Ma' before getting into Paka from Kerteh.  It was a mistake, the path into the sanctuary was so bad that we could not proceed down the slope and we got stuck trying to reverse up.  The rear tires could not grip the gravel road.  I had to call Toyota Assist to get a tow truck from Dungun.  We waited an hour before the tow truck arrived.  Derrick and I walked out to the main road to wait for it to come, and it rained intermittently.

We were finally on the way to Dungun at 2.30.  What a relief!  We had late lunch, lekor and laksa Terengganu.  Then we went round and round looking for 76, Jalan Sri Dungun (David and Cherry's house).  We kept missing the turn and after calling David for final directions, found it in 2 minutes.

David was home to welcome us.  We unloaded the car while the boys watched Astro and signed in on Internet.  Cherry came home with Kayley and nice keropok lekor at 6.30pm.  We went out for dinner and the food took ages to come.  The boys were so hungry.  In a flash, dinner was over and we went back to Cherry's house.  We all slept late.