Our stay in Cherating last year gave us opportunities to visit places in Chukai and Cherating like the Cherating Turtle Sanctuary.

Going to Cherating Turtle Sanctuary is a must in Cherating. After enjoying the sandy white beaches of Cherating, the turtle sanctuary is located within the hotel areas of the main road of Cherating. There are lots of road signs showing the direction to the turtle sanctuary. We followed the signs and found the sanctuary.

In fact, the Cherating Turtle Sanctuary is actually located quite near to the Cherating Club Med.  Just a few steps away. The sanctuary is a traditional Malay house design.

Well, we seen lots of turtles on TV, never really seen a live one before. We were pretty excited, really.

There were some displays on facts about turtles. Diagrams and models like this. But the real thing is….

The live turtles. There were quite a number of turtles in the sanctuary. They were swimming lively in the pool designated for them. Well, if there’s the big ones, there should have the small ones.

Look at the cute little turtles. They were so cute.

The sanctuary is not really that huge, but it was clean and properly maintain. It’s a good effort to have a sanctuary like this to show to the public, the real turtles look like. And also to protect the turtles from extinction. A small step of a better future for the turtles. Really a good job from the Pahang state government having such center.

This center was opened to the public in June 1998 and is managed by the Department of Fisheries Malaysia with the cooperation of the State Government of Pahang Darul Makmur.

Admission is free, but donations are welcome. It is a must visit place in Cherating.

Opening Hours: 8.30 am – 5 pm

Cherating Turtle Sanctuary Contact And Address:

Turtle Sanctuary & Information Center
Cherating 26050 Kuantan
Pahang
Tel : 011- 951444
Fax : 09-5523482
E-mail : tionet01@tm.net.my

A beach holiday would be a perfect remedy now. However, our next beach holiday won’t happened until March. I had been going thru a lot of stress lately. I’m yet to get all my stuffs done for Argentina. Still left a few things for it. Will be rushing to complete my work and getting my preparations done before next week, I hope.

For now imagine.

Just imagine a very sunny day.

Under the clear blue sky, the best possible place for sunbathing. The soothing air blowing from the ocean, with fine beach sands at the tip of your toes.

Well, it wasn’t really a dream but one of our beach holiday we did last year. Our second getaway trip to Cherating. It was a short trip, destress trip.

After a good old 5 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur by using Karak highway (then North East highway), destination Cherating was a quiet place for holiday. We stayed at The Legend Hotel Cherating. Will do a quick review on the hotel later on.

Cherating is a quiet place that many mistaken that it is  in Trengganu instead of Pahang. There are quite a few of seafood restaurants in Cherating, most of them are operated by Muslims. The nearest town from Cherating will be Chukai, its around 15 min drive from Cherating. Kuantan will be an hour drive.

Rachel thought Cherating was slightly bored for her. I will stay neutral on this. Regardless, the beach was well maintain looking towards the beautiful South China Sea.

Cherating would be a quiet getaway with sunny sandy beaches.