Campervan Spot Kijal & Sungai Lembing Malaysia | #Vanlife

Malaysia has many undiscovered places to camp and in the previous video we showed you Gopeng and Taman Negara. In this episode we continue our search for more and end up in Awana Kijau and Sungai Lembeng. When you click subscribe, remember to hit the notification bell so you never miss a video. The roads in Malaysia are relatively good to drive as we always have an option to use either the toll roads or a more scenic route which is a little longer but you do get to see more of rural Malaysia. The Kijau beach stretches for eight kilometers with rocky outcrops in the north at Awana Kijau and south at Bukit Penunjuk. The famous sleeping giant rock formation in the sea is located at Penunjuk beach. This is our favorite spot in Kijau. It's kept really clean and on weekdays the place is all for us. Friendly locals come and go and some even stop to ask for photos especially when we come with the Kombi. Teamwork and integrity are important qualities to have especially when traveling as a group. Setting up and tearing down camp really takes a lot of time and effort especially when moving from one location to another quite often. We all have specific tasks to fulfill and after a long day's drive we look forward to setting up relatively fast in order to enjoy the rest of the day preparing for dark. Unlike living in the house when we are camped out we need to ensure that everything is properly set up before dark or else we have a harder time working in the dark. Camper van travel is so addictive for us especially when it's done with like-minded people. It is even more rewarding. We have a couple of favorite camping buddies and one of them is Richie. We met him at the VW Songkla event and if you haven't seen that video here's a link to it. Since then we have camped in Mersing and Goping several times. Some of the spots we actually head out to are recommended by Richie himself. Working together as a team is crucial in order for camper van trips to be a lot of fun. The more we camp together the better we understand each other's personalities. Even Roxy and Beau understand our camper van culture and know their own job description. A good leader is also a good follower and under these circumstances with the right company it becomes a breeze to be one role or the other. When you camp together often enough conversations become more soulful. Rene set off bright and early that morning to go and get breakfast and when he came back he brought nasi lemak with him. We sat down and we ate breakfast together after Richie fried us some sunny side up eggs. After that we began packing and started our journey to Sungai Lembing. Sungai Lembing is a tin mining town in Kuantan district, Pahang, Malaysia. Sungai Lembing was a major producer of underground tin. Sungai Lembing town developed in the 1880s when the British set up the tin mining industry. During their heyday they were among the largest and the deepest in the world. A museum highlighting the tin mining industry was opened in 2003. The museum is housed in an old bungalow once used by the mine manager. Today the town of Sungai Lembing is in decline although it was once the richest town in Pahang known as El Dorado of the east. Today many of the wooden shop lots are closed and people are moving away. At the far end of town an old wooden building still stands overlooking a padang where social activities are held. After spending the afternoon exploring this little town we headed to our campsite called Camp Stay Sungai Lembing. This campsite is by a river and it is owned by a nice Malay couple. We set up camp here for one night and decided to park right by the river even though there were no trees to shade us. If you do come here be sure to set up camp where there are plenty of trees which is further up the ground. We spray down Roxy and Bo with organics kinetics debug pads to repel all insects and ticks. It's organic and won't harm them. And for those annoying mosquitoes that we hate so much we use organics kinetics moss room spray and this stuff really helps us keep those pesky insects out of Van Halen. Because of the surrounding jungle the temperature here drops dramatically by night. As soon as we arrived we hustled to get our campfire started and then we jumped into the Sungai Lembing river for a quick swim. The current here is pretty strong so if you are here be careful. Keep an eye on your kids especially if they decide to swim. The sleep we had here in this campsite was one of the best we ever experienced. We were lucky enough to see plenty of stars out and we heard the roars of wild jungle cats across the riverbank. It is extremely quiet and peaceful here at night but by day sadly we could hear the cracking of giant trees being brought down cleared for more palm oil plantations. We flew the drone around the area and this was what we discovered across the riverbank. What are your feelings about this? Leave us comments below. The next morning we packed and left for the next location. Thank you for watching and as usual please click like, comment and share our videos because it helps us create more content for you. See you in the next one. Click here for more travel in Malaysia videos. Click here for our travels in Thailand and click here to subscribe to our channel.