On Thursday we decided to go to Kuantan, well I had to attend to a meeting with my lawyer the next day, so as to be at the meeting fresh, I decided to do the driving a day earlier. We left KL at just after ten in the morning, the whether was fine with clear blue sky, so the ride to Kuantan was smooth. The road to Kuantan has improve considerably, in those days the sector from Kuala Lumpur to Bentong was a winding single lane road all the way and it wind it way along side the hills with lush green forest, actually all the way to Bentong one passed through a virgin jungles and mountains that's make the main ranges of Peninsular Malaysia. This range is called the Banjiran Titiwangsa, that stretch from the north at the Thai boarder in the state of Kelantan and in the south right to the state of Johor. These stretch of jungle contain fauna and foliages that had been there for millions of years, the tropical trees are of hard woods, peculiar to this part of the region, we Malaysian are indeed lucky to still have this national heritage, where we can wonder and enjoy the tranquility of the tropical jungle. In those day the ride from Kuala Lumpur to Bentong was a quite difficult and tiresome journey for with only one lane going and one lane coming, driver had to be extremely careful to avoid an accident, since the road goes up and do all the way to Bentong, it is also take some strain to the driver, the narrow road makes over taking one of the most difficult part of driving, but one had no choice, for this is the only road that lead to Kuantan at that time. Today it is still the same road, but the stretch from Kuala Lumpur to Karak have improved with drivers had the pleasure of driving on well build highway, thanks to the authority for providing such a good road and soon one would be able to travel with greater comfort when the new highway from Kuala Lumpur to Kuantan is completed, then it would just take two and a half hours to get to Kuantan from Kuala Lumpur which is now four hours. Still with the road being build through forest areas, one would still be able to enjoy scenic jungle scene all the way to Kuantan, with a patch of kampong landscape from time to time. It would indeed make traveling a pleasure.....what a way to travel, an enjoyable trip and getting to the destination fresh........, the cloud was dark as we approach Kuantan and it looks like it was going to rain, but it did not...Well we arrived in Kuantan just before four in the evening...Since I love to drive, the drive from Kuala Lumpur to Kuantan today was indeed enjoyable....well it makes my day...