Desaru Beach-Johor Bharu Tourist Spot

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After graduated, we decided to go to Desaru Beach near Kota Tinggi, Johor Bharu to have a relaxing trip. We drove from Taman University, Skudai. Desaru is a beautiful beach in Southeastern Johor, Peninsular Malaysia.

Desaru Beach-Johor Bharu Tourist Spot

We went there by my car and we spent around 2 hours to reach Desaru.  There are a few ways to go to Desaru as followings:

By bus
There are direct bus services around three times a day from Johor Bahru’s Larkin Terminal to Bandar Penawar. Alternatively, a bus service from Larkin to Kota Tinggi, then from Kota Tinggi to Bandar Penawar.
From Bandar Penawar, you can either take a cab (teksi) or wait the minibus. You can also take a cab from Kota Tinggi directly to Desaru.

By car
Drive to Pasir Gudang Highway and follow Kota Tinggi Direction. You will pass by Ulu Tiram. And from there, there will be brown colour signboard that directing you to Desaru Beach.

By boat
The passenger ferry Changi Ferry Terminal in Singapore and Tanjong Belungkor Ferry Terminal. There are also bumboat services from Changi Point Ferry Terminal to the fishing village of Pengerang and you may take cab to Desaru from there.

If you are not driving to Desaru, you are hard to go around since it is hard to find public transportation nearby. Therefore, we drove to Desaru.

When we reached Desaru, it was about time to took lunch and we had seafood in a famous seafood town “Sungai Rengit“.

Prawn – Lunch in Sungai Rengit

Vegetables

Seafood Restaurant in Sungai Rengit

We headed to Desaru beach and trying to find the chalet that we searched from website,  ”Desaru Holiday Chalet“. We went on weekdays and therefore our room rate was RM120. If you are only two persons, you can choose only standard single. The room rate during weekend is RM 180.

Our Chalet – Desaru Holiday Chalet

Desaru Holiday Chalet Price List

The chalet is like a small house with living area, bathroom and one double bedroom. There are no television in the chalet and it is really a time for you to relax without disturbing from all those technologies. Besides, the hot shower is not provided in the standard single whereby you have to pay extra to get those facilities.

Inside Chalet

The chalet was situated near the sea and when we went out from the chalet, we can see the sea with the peaceful wave sound. We decided to move the chairs to the outside of our house and rest while waiting the day became not so hot.  The wave sound and the beautiful scene really caused me feel very relaxing.

Outside Chalet – Relax

Chalet Sea View

After taking a short rest, we found out that there was a lot of mosquitoes around and we decided to drive down to Petronas to buy coil, drinks and some food.

We then went down to the beach. We walked from one side to another and started playing the sand. I not really played sand before in the beach. Terry suddenly suggested that we should bring camera to take down some photos of our “product”. On the way back to the beach after taking camera, we meet a troop of monkey passed by. Maybe because of having “mums and kids” among the monkeys, some of the monkeys tended to attack us to protect themselves. Although the monkeys not really attacked us, we still felt very shock. We still continue our journey back to the beach and Terry started making his castle!!! I snapped some of his photo with his castle and we decided to move back to take bath.

Desaru Beach

Sand Castle

Wave

Sea and Beach

We went to the restaurant and ate some simple food. It was nothing special but just malay fried mee. After dinner, the night still young. What we normally did in the city like watching television, surfing and etc. was not provided in the chalet and some more we came here for relaxing. Therefore we did not directly go backto our room but we stopped the car along the way we went back to our chalet.

We sat inside the car, opened the window so that we can listen to the song of the sea. It was relaxing and calm. Life is always so busy and we even seldom to chit chat after back from work. We looked at the star and moon while listening to the wave, we shared regarding our dream, our work, our problem…

Night at Desaru Beach

Sunrise at Desaru Beach

The next day, we woke up at 5.00am because we planned to go to see sunrise in the beach. When we stepped out from our chalet, the sky still dark. We waited until the sky became brighter and brighter but still could not really see the sunrise. At first we thought that maybe it was too cloudy and we missed the sunrise. We were about to leave then we finally saw what we expected for. The sun slowly rose up from the sea, a bit a bit more and finally with the whole round shape appeared. We was so excited because it was the first time we saw sunrise in the beach after last time we watch the sunset in the Tip of Borneo (Kindly referred to the post of Kudat, Sabah).

Li Ping Holding Sun

Relaxing Trip in Desaru

We took the breakfast and ended our relaxing trip in this peaceful beach.