CAITA DAY 1 Singapore - Ipoh THE START
Saturday 14 Oct Begining of Our LONGEST DRIVE
This morning started with the Organising team loading our cars with their
stickers, which to their dismay, we have very little space left for them. So we
selected their main sponsor's China National Oil Co's stickers for the car
We were surprised and realised how meticulous the event organisers were when they handed us some of the official event T shirts, it had our SIN flag on it. Fantastic! MUST wear them, especially border crossings
The Flag Off was at the Furama Riverfront Hotel (former Apolo Hotel) at 830am. We were informed later that the Mayor of Nanning City, China, flew in to officiate the Flag Off ceremony. The ceremony was quite elaborate, with portable event back drop set up specially for the Start, and speeches from the Officials wishing us farewell for the 'Rally'. We convoyed to Tuas with the assistance of SMSA officials and CISCO outriders. Clearing Customs on
both sides was a breeze and we were regrouped at the Petronas station on the 2nd Link. On the journey started, the convoy maintained at leisurely paced of legal speed limit.
Our 1st stop of the day was Ayer Keroh. Leaving the highway, and 3 km after the
toll plaza, we turned left into a resort called Puteri Resort, for our break, and enjoyed our packaged lunch box of Fried Rice paradise, prepared from SIN
Next stop was Denkil R&R on the Elite Highway. Nothing much happened except
Leslie's father accidentally 'locked' Leslie's father-in-law inside the Forester. The poor guy was unable to get out because of the child proof system was activated, and this matter was
only discovered after they finished their 15 mins break. We were looking forward to introduce to the CAITA team the well known Kajang Satay, but was not opened unfortunately.
The MAL traffic Police had a lean day today, as we were cruising at legal speeds.
The Terracan is surprisingly economical. We topped up the tank to the brim at 2nd Link and reached Ipoh with 1/4 tank left. We arrived Ipoh's Casurina Hotel at 545pm.We will calculate the actual fuel used at refuel tomorrow morning before going over to our next stop: HATYAI - Thailand
Now we are planning to have the famous Ipoh Hor Fun & Tau Gay Chicken for supper after this travelogue report
Cheers
William & Harold at the IPOH Parkson Cybercafe 1030pm
posted by William Lyou @ 9:48 PM
5 comments
5 Comments:
Sounds like everything is running smoothly. Hows the haze on the NS highway. Its still fluctuating at around 80-120 psi over here.
What is the convoy crusing at? 110km/h or are they living up to their Rallye ambitions? Keep the updates coming
Hey William, could you clarify if the Chinese sponsor is "China National Offshore Oil Co. (CNOOC)" or "China National Petroleum" I would like to update the SPONSORS List - Cheers
Hey Paul, The Chinese sponsor is CNPC, China National Petroleum Co
Haze in north IPOH is quite bad that you can smell it.
Convoy can only travel at legal limit.
Tmr,we have to do 900km to BKK and the organisers have taken my suggestion to start earlier. We are leaving at 7am and hoping to get into hotel by 6pm
Can you upload Leslie's team pix?
Thanks
William
Hi there. Have updated the Sponsor list to include CNPC. Leslie's team picture has also been posted alongside his name in the very first post. Thats the only pic we have for the moment.
Hi there, this is President speaking. We are probably more than 10,000km apart but I'd rather we swop places. FIM has just got a new President and life here is just plain boooring. Not a safe place to wander around. That 'Leslie locked his in-law in the back seat' incident, hope it's not a punishment from the son-in-law. Keep going man.....
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