My sister and I had to deal with some house repair which we discovered just before I left for Kunming and when I came back, I spent about two weeks setting the house back to order, rearranging some furniture, going through dad’s books and documents and getting rid of things he boarded for decades, and of course cleaning, dusting and mopping the house.
I needed a little break from all that and considered my options for a short day trip. Because I’d been to Melaka a few times albeit not recently, I decided to go to Temerloh. So I left micasa early last Wednesday morning, 5 November 2025, and made my way to Titiwangsa bus station.
I arrived at 07:47 and made my way to one of the counters only to find that Bulan Restu would not be operating until early December 2025. I went to another counter and to my delight, found that there was a bus leaving at 08:00 so I parted with RM12 for my ticket. We were told the trip would take 2.5 hours.
The bus left at 07:58 and it was not a full bus at all. It stopped for about twenty minutes at Gombak Terminal and I went down to use the facilities. We left the Karak Highway at Karak and after brief stops along the way and at Mentakab, we reached Temerloh at 10:20. I immediately went to buy ticket for the bus back and chose the 14:00 departure.
I then walked around the town up to the river. Temerloh is not flat but the hills are manageable. The town is at the confluence of the mighty Pahang and Semantan Rivers. There is a colourful bridge there and one would need to pay to cross it but I overheard some visitors saying it was closed. By ‘it’, I think they meant the restaurant across.
I turned back and walked to Pasar Seni Temerloh but it was deserted on a weekday. Then I turned and walked back up to Jalan Dato’ Abu Samah then walked along Jalan Ahmad Shah. I stopped at a restaurant for some censor and rojak (which automatically came with yellow noodles; apparently you have to say ‘pasembur’ if you wanted rojak so I either didn’t understand the lingo or had the wrong definition of rojak all this while. It was already 11:50 then.
I was contemplating if I should get some Patin fish with rice for lunch but I’d only just had some rojak mee (that’s what I would call it and not simply rojak) when I saw there’s a restaurant about 15 minutes away selling laksa. I was just wondering if Pahang had any laksa to claim for itself so I decided to walk over and check it out. So I had laksa instead of Patin fish but I didn’t regret it because I’d never had laksa Pahang before. Then it was time to turn back. I stopped en route to perform prayers before making my way back to the bus station for my 14:00 bus back to KL. We reached KL at 16:25 and that was my short trip to Temerloh. There is a long Sunday morning market but I could get most things in KL and besides, the Sunday traffic around Temerloh would be somewhat heavier too. But hey, maybe just maybe, I might return on a Sunday morning because never say never.
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