Cherating Beach

The rocket car is turning out to be fantastic. We are able to quickly load the kids and take off. This weekend we went north to Cherating, stopping at all the beaches along the way. The road is good with decent beach scenery most of the way. Cherating itself is more spread out than Kuantan and less built up. The tourist strip has you really feel you are in an Asian beach town with food stalls and restaurants, loads of cheap hotels with cutesy names and vendors selling swimming tubes and t-shirts.

We got out at a beach a little south of the main tourist to check out the sand quality and be thrilled it wasn't as steep as our private beach. The kids loved it, Tom stepped foot on the sand and started trying to take his "clothes on" (2 year old mistake for off and on) and I wasn't sure how much attention we would create so I let him down to his nappy (I was not looking forward to a repeat of the dick pulling incidents in Vietnam) but lucky to say we had the beach to ourselves. The kids ran freely playing with washed up coconuts, wood and yelling us little crabs popped into and out of holes along the beach.

From 2009 July Malaysia Pekan, Cherating and Kuantan

At the main tourist part I couldn't resist taking a photo of a group of girls laughing and giggling eating their icecreams.

From 2009 July Malaysia Pekan, Cherating and Kuantan